It's very sad and shameful this is the second case of one accused assaulting three officers within just a few months. In my time, I've never heard of such cases, only police assault accused. Even one accused successfully assaulting one officer, one-to-one, would have been a shame. There were deathmatches before, sometimes police won and sometimes police lost and died, but those were deathmatches where accuseds were ready kill or die, that's a different league, the premier league.
But police getting assaulted by accuseds were unheard of. Only police assaulted accuseds until they cried tolong and complied with every order and answered every question or go to hospital with not only arms on drips but wrists handcuffed to hospital beds too.
I don't know how TraCom recruits and trains police officers nowadays. In the old PA days, we had three instructors per squad, the DI, the OC and the Law Instructor. The DI taught us how to beat up people, the Law Instructor taught us the laws and the OC taught us PPPO and PGO and co-ordinated everything together, so that after beating up people, we could write the reports appropriately.![]()
Have you seen the policemen we have today? Nerdy looking, church choir type, never got into fights in school or outside etc. Not streetwise. They were probably too stunned and didn't react appropriately. If you get streetwise chaps, the ah tiong won't have the chance to attack first. I bet the ah tiong made an assessment (drunk or otherwise) and felt he could get away. Not say I howlian but I was never beaten up in my career. And I don't need to wear uniform to have that deterrent impact.
Let me offer another possible scenario. This guy being drunk probably attacked the officers. They probably walloped him good and proper and also charged him for assault for his temerity. A message has to be sent.
No police force anywhere in the world is going to allow someone who assaults them to get away without a clear message being sent.
In the good old days, gangsters trained their kids to fight from kindergarten onwards. That's because of the old logic, if the kid must spend hours away from home, he must be able to fight to survive to come home alive. Police officers are recruited after O/A levels/Poly. My time, most of us looking at each other know on the roll call of first day that we're all from somekind gangster backgrounds. Nowadays, they recruit bookworms. It's too late to start to train to fight after 18.
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Way to go, brother [GoldenDragon].
I would say that the modern day police officer may be a softie, unlike us from the old days, fought as a school boy, and in the kampung (old spelling kampong). Unlike [GoldenDragon] who is not "how lian", in my old age, I can a bit how lian, that is as a Sec 2 boy, I punched my class monitor in the forehead, after some arguments.
May be those three police officers have never heard of "dead man tells no tales"
When our child comes home from school and complains to my wife that so and so bullied him, I told him the next time, forget about going to tell the teacher, just stomp on the other person's toes, shout as loud as you can, punch the other person in the chin or face and kick his knee, then stomped on his stomach when is on the ground. However, my wife said that I should not advocate violence, and in addition, our son can be suspended from school for a day or two. My response is that our son should tell the teacher that the other person hit him first, and he is defending himself. One day off from school is better to be bullied.