KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Crime in the city dropped by 6.7% or 2,245 cases in 2007 compared to the previous year as the result of closer cooperation between the police and the public, said outgoing city police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zul Hasnan Najib Baharudin.

He said the crime-solving rate of 35% was higher than that set by Interpol, which is 20%.

"Among our successes was the confiscation of firearms and live bullets, besides the seizure of 44,381gm of heroin, 70,830gm of ganja, 3,674gm of amphetamines, 19,236gm of ketamine, 8,139 Ecstasy pills, 37,046 Eramin 5 pills, 8,159 pills of psychotropic drugs and 55 litres of codeine by the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department."

"We also arrested 450 drug traffickers while 2,888 people were detained for possession of drugs and 3,456 more detained under the Dangerous Drug Act," he said after handing over the baton of command to new city police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Muhd Sabtu Osman at the Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters.

Zul Hasnan has been promoted to the rank of Commissioner and is now the director of the narcotics department in Bukit Aman.

He also said that a total of RM5mil in cash and assets belonging to drug suspects were confiscated under the Forfeiture of Property Act in the past two years.