Little India COI - Police to blame. No Police Commish fired yet? PAP Meritocrashit?

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So, who is the fucking liar here? Gay Loong and the polie performed well with "restraint" or this COI which says police had shortcomings? Both cannot be right. Teo Chee Bye want to study what fucking report? Wait until July 7th? Fucking fire the top senior commanders in the SPF first lah. Than take your time to read the report. Like that also don't let them go? When u put in scholars who know nothing about policing, u will get this results. COI should have concluded this too. If this was a war and not a riot, I wonder how the SAF will perform. Of course, there will be COI, or the COI will be conducted by winning invading army. We will all be under occupation. Cut red tape in its response? Just fire a few layers of jiak liao bee commanders and you will get a better response time. We pay Minister Teo Chee Bye million $ salaries for this kind of performance. I would say this COI was a white wash in some ways and glossed over many serious indemic flaws in the SPF.


Singapore Riot Exposed Police Weaknesses, Report Finds

SINGAPORE—A rare riot in Singapore last year exposed some shortcomings in the police's ability to tackle public-order incidents, a state-appointed panel said Monday, after a six-month inquiry into the city-state's worst outburst of public violence in more than 40 years.

The Dec. 8 riot—staged by hundreds of South Asian migrant workers angered by a fatal road accident—blotted Singapore's image as one of Asia's safest countries. The riot stoked public concern about the sustainability of the island state's heavy reliance on overseas labor. It also prompted officials to launch an inquiry into what caused the violence and how it was handled.

In a 75-page report, a committee of inquiry said it found that the Singapore Police Force had responded to the riot "relatively swiftly and efficiently," but also committed "several lapses" in how it dealt with the violence, which took place in the city-state's ethnic Indian district.

These lapses included a "communications failure" that prevented police commanders from marshaling scattered officers, as well as decisions taken by officers to prioritize dispersing the rioters over making arrests, the four-member committee said.

"The training and equipping of [police] officers to deal with public order incidents have to be improved," the committee said in its report. "There is also much room for improvement in communications, as it was plain that the communications failure materially affected the ability of the commanders on the ground to act."

Even so, the committee believed that the lapses "were an aberration and do not reflect a serious and systemic defect in the police force as a whole."

It also recommended that the police increase its manpower and cut red tape in its chain of command, among other steps.

In response to the report, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said the Home Affairs Ministry—which oversees the police—and the Manpower Ministry will study the committee's findings and recommendations, before offering their responses in Parliament on July 7.

The riot—which took two hours to quell—caused injuries to more than 60 people, including law-enforcement and emergency-services personnel, as well as members of the public. Dozens of police, emergency-services and privately owned vehicles were damaged.


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