I just came across Kim Quek's article regarding the police force and checked the police website - the actual figure for total police personnel, of all ranks, is 74,016; Pak Lah's 80,000 may be a fairly accurate approximation.

But then he quoted a 'police officer' to people ratio of 1:3000, so we will have to assume out of the 80,000 police personnel which we have currently, only 10 percent, or 8,000, are police officers. A fair figure?

If we look at the figure for England and Wales, it is one police officer for 402 people, the figure for Sussex, England is 1:510 people.

These figures are from the website of parliamentarian Charles Hendry. The Telegraph of UK, has the following ratios for New York (1:197); Berlin (1:124); London (1:285); Manchester (1:376) and Sheffield (1:545).

What will hiring another 23,000 police personnel result in our local ratio. Here, we similarly assume that only 10 percent, or 2,300, will be police officers, we will end up with a ratio of 1:2330 for a population of 24 million.

In order to get the ratio of 1:300, we need have to have 80,000 police officers, meaning a total of 800,000 police personnel of all ranks! This means that 3.33 percent of our population will have to join the police force.

Go figure all that out, something is not quite right.