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DC T Rajakumar addressing reporters. He acknowledged that the police answers to the public, so it must follow that the public has every right to question and condemn the police when something goes wrong.
I will go further, it's because people like me and others, including former police officers have undergone such duties, that we are criticising them, not merely as armchair critics, but as one who have undergone the same set of duties. It baffles us that the management could allow such a situation to deteriorate so rapidly with no action taken. It also baffles us as to why over many months and years, nothing was done to anticipate or prepare for such an incident.
Finally about the suggestion of the questioning public donning the uniform, this is again unacceptable. To such officers with this mindset -let me say this this, you're not indispensable, never think that we are dependant solely on you, or that without you, the SPF will crumble and Singapore would be a lawless state. You were hired to filled a position. If you didn't join, if you quit, even die tomorrow, somebody else would be hired to replace you. You filled a quota with your appointment. If you feel that such criticism is unjust or unfair and you don't like it, please quit immediately. So we can hire someone else who's prepared to do his or her duty without feeling that the public is obligated to them. You were hired to serve the public, you were trained and paid a good salary, if you are no longer prepared to accept these terms, please resign and let someone else who is, do the job for us. Maybe even with such positions becoming vacant, some of us 'so-called armchair critics' can be given the chance to the job.
The bottom-line is that he has no experience on the ground and refused to consider the advice of his junior men by giving them the support. 39 police and SCDF personnel were injured and you did nothing? Little India was a powder keg and throughout his command he did not do anything about it. No attempts were made to control traffic or the crowd. He had no situational awareness, no foresight and worse of all not 1 word of an apology for his failure. Instead he has a litany of excuses at the ready. This whole episode has shown 1 thing - his position is untenable and the same should be said of his fellow commanders, all of whom have been parachuted into such positions by a series of repeated promotions simply because they are scholars. His failure is a reflection amongst other things...http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014/03/little-india-riot-tanglin-police.html
I will go further, it's because people like me and others, including former police officers have undergone such duties, that we are criticising them, not merely as armchair critics, but as one who have undergone the same set of duties. It baffles us that the management could allow such a situation to deteriorate so rapidly with no action taken. It also baffles us as to why over many months and years, nothing was done to anticipate or prepare for such an incident.
Finally about the suggestion of the questioning public donning the uniform, this is again unacceptable. To such officers with this mindset -let me say this this, you're not indispensable, never think that we are dependant solely on you, or that without you, the SPF will crumble and Singapore would be a lawless state. You were hired to filled a position. If you didn't join, if you quit, even die tomorrow, somebody else would be hired to replace you. You filled a quota with your appointment. If you feel that such criticism is unjust or unfair and you don't like it, please quit immediately. So we can hire someone else who's prepared to do his or her duty without feeling that the public is obligated to them. You were hired to serve the public, you were trained and paid a good salary, if you are no longer prepared to accept these terms, please resign and let someone else who is, do the job for us. Maybe even with such positions becoming vacant, some of us 'so-called armchair critics' can be given the chance to the job.
The bottom-line is that he has no experience on the ground and refused to consider the advice of his junior men by giving them the support. 39 police and SCDF personnel were injured and you did nothing? Little India was a powder keg and throughout his command he did not do anything about it. No attempts were made to control traffic or the crowd. He had no situational awareness, no foresight and worse of all not 1 word of an apology for his failure. Instead he has a litany of excuses at the ready. This whole episode has shown 1 thing - his position is untenable and the same should be said of his fellow commanders, all of whom have been parachuted into such positions by a series of repeated promotions simply because they are scholars. His failure is a reflection amongst other things...http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014/03/little-india-riot-tanglin-police.html
