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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lu Yeow Lim is the top dog at Tanglin Police Station. He served as Deputy Commander previously and had stints at the Operations Department as Asst Director Licensing and AD Policy and Development. But it still appears he hasn't come to grips to overseeing policy, planning and supervision of his men and an understanding of the ground.
I believe the Police management have taken their 'eye of the ball' on this issue. Instead of many uniformed police officers, instead now I see 'Security personnel' who are obviously not police officers making the rounds accompanied by Cisco officers. They seem content to ignore the crowds and instead seem focussed on 'summoning vehicles parked illegally'. The accident took place at Hampshire Road X Race Course Road, barely a kilometre away from Tanglin Police Station on Kg Java Road.
Yet every Sunday, scores of private busses are allowed to parked along Hampshire Road effectively blocking the road and making it impassable to all other traffic. Being a narrow road with busses, some park abreast of each other, manoeuvring these big vehicles becomes a hazardous exercise especially when you add the mix of hundreds maybe thousands of workers crossing the very same roads. In fact you can conclude in some ways, it was a miracle that no fatal accident occurred in the past given how narrow Hampshire and Race Course Roads are. This was an accident waiting to happen. Where is the Traffic Police (TP) in regards to this issue?
TP has used the excuse that it has to give the illegal parking enforcement to the LTA, in order to free up their officers for more urgent tasks. Why were they not deployed to direct and control traffic? They tend to outsource this to Cisco now, but how well trained are these Cisco officers, and what level of supervision does TP maintain in regards to them? Are TP actually aware of the situation on the ground at Little India?
- http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2013/12/little-india-riot-questions-for-police.html
I believe the Police management have taken their 'eye of the ball' on this issue. Instead of many uniformed police officers, instead now I see 'Security personnel' who are obviously not police officers making the rounds accompanied by Cisco officers. They seem content to ignore the crowds and instead seem focussed on 'summoning vehicles parked illegally'. The accident took place at Hampshire Road X Race Course Road, barely a kilometre away from Tanglin Police Station on Kg Java Road.
Yet every Sunday, scores of private busses are allowed to parked along Hampshire Road effectively blocking the road and making it impassable to all other traffic. Being a narrow road with busses, some park abreast of each other, manoeuvring these big vehicles becomes a hazardous exercise especially when you add the mix of hundreds maybe thousands of workers crossing the very same roads. In fact you can conclude in some ways, it was a miracle that no fatal accident occurred in the past given how narrow Hampshire and Race Course Roads are. This was an accident waiting to happen. Where is the Traffic Police (TP) in regards to this issue?
TP has used the excuse that it has to give the illegal parking enforcement to the LTA, in order to free up their officers for more urgent tasks. Why were they not deployed to direct and control traffic? They tend to outsource this to Cisco now, but how well trained are these Cisco officers, and what level of supervision does TP maintain in regards to them? Are TP actually aware of the situation on the ground at Little India?
- http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2013/12/little-india-riot-questions-for-police.html
