Who else can help if police are preoccupied? 
Tue, Feb 26, 2008
The Straits Times 

I WOULD like to know who residents can contact when the police are unable to respond to calls for help for genuine reasons such as a temporary lack of resources.
Two Monday evenings ago, a group of rowdy teenagers in school uniform - four boys and six girls - decided to make our Housing Board corridor on the upper floors their party venue.

They were noisy. At first, they were verbally obscene. Then, when they started burning tissue paper and sniffing glue, they took off their tops.

Concerned, my wife called the police.
 
When no officer arrived after about 20 minutes, she called another police station and was advised that they were informed of her report and would send officers to check.
After an hour, and with no sign of the police, my wife called the police to ask why they hadn't come.

She was told resources were limited because there were more urgent reports that required attention. I can accept the explanation and understand the difficult demands placed on our police force.

I have two suggestions:

First, the police should advise residents who else they can call for help if such situations arise - the town council, perhaps?

Second, residents should be advised on a subsequent course of action to safeguard themselves if the police are unable to attend to public calls for assistance. For instance, how do we know when to call whom?
The teenagers left behind a mess. They threw some packs of liquid over the parapet and left a trail of painkillers, burnt tissue, glue and sweet wrappers.

However, we considered ourselves lucky in this case because no one was hurt.

Eu Eng Sing

omg u have no idea what the police here in u.s. do…..................they get here fast and i got pulled over by the police for random searches like so many times…........my friend said i looked like some kind bad guy or some gang.lol

Dear Ed 11790.

Your claim of police in the USA reacting quickily so as to provide the impression of complete efficiency is regretfully unture. Each system has its flaws and lack of resource. I know of civil suits against local police for taking over 90mins to respond to a 911 call by a  rape victim. Amazingly, although the operator had assured the victim of assistance, no officer arrived and it was later revealed that a police station was "jsut round e corner"

I am certain that officers in all countries, be it Spore or USA, try their best in fulfilling all their duties.

Originally posted by HyperFocal:

Who else can help if police are preoccupied? 
Tue, Feb 26, 2008
The Straits Times 

 

I WOULD like to know who residents can contact when the police are unable to respond to calls for help for genuine reasons such as a temporary lack of resources.
Two Monday evenings ago, a group of rowdy teenagers in school uniform - four boys and six girls - decided to make our Housing Board corridor on the upper floors their party venue.

They were noisy. At first, they were verbally obscene. Then, when they started burning tissue paper and sniffing glue, they took off their tops.

Concerned, my wife called the police.
 
When no officer arrived after about 20 minutes, she called another police station and was advised that they were informed of her report and would send officers to check.
After an hour, and with no sign of the police, my wife called the police to ask why they hadn't come.

She was told resources were limited because there were more urgent reports that required attention. I can accept the explanation and understand the difficult demands placed on our police force.

I have two suggestions:

First, the police should advise residents who else they can call for help if such situations arise - the town council, perhaps?

Second, residents should be advised on a subsequent course of action to safeguard themselves if the police are unable to attend to public calls for assistance. For instance, how do we know when to call whom?
The teenagers left behind a mess. They threw some packs of liquid over the parapet and left a trail of painkillers, burnt tissue, glue and sweet wrappers.

However, we considered ourselves lucky in this case because no one was hurt.

Eu Eng Sing

 

Perhaps the police were too busy conducting surveillance on Dr. Chee, because everytime Dr. Chee and company appears in public, there would be hordes of police officers trailing him.

One time while on holday in Singapore I had a minor problem at a hawker center so I went across to the police post there to make a complain.They asked me why I was there instead of just calling 999,I told them its more convenient and faster to just walk over.They then started to whine and asked me if it was really necessary, finally sent two constables to investigate cuz it could have been a real big problem at that time.The cops were asking more stupid questions over and over again while conducting their investigation.That was when I realised that Cops are dumb people World Wide

sometimes police resource was being used up by those stupid calls. Something like someone playing at the playground causing alot of noise and i cant sleep, demand police to do something about it. if not would complain. where the call came in around 10am in the morning on a sat. If police dont go, kana complain, go already not enough resource to attend other more important cases. so at the end of day, who’s fault??
the person who anyhow call police or police attending cases slow??
think about it.

for the minor cases, like children making noise at the playground, civilians should step up to the task and stop them themselves. perhaps making good use of the training provided during NS?

wow...so...does the public wants a Gestapo? i guess maybe tt should solve a bit of problem right..we can have the noise pollution problem dept...kiddos gathering problem dept...kiddos playing skateboard dept...neighbour's dog barking causing noise problem...neighbour nv sweep corridor problem...can can.... make this state a supreme police state n u'll have law and order..

well...nobody dare make loud noises in a totalitarian or dictatorial state...nobody dare to gather n dunno-do-what on dunno-which-flat. its a perfect law n order...all sleep at 10pm sharp..refusal...get the bars or te bullet... no gathering at all..this is to prevent anti-govt discussions...see perfect rite?

Ho bo?

perhaps they should classify the cases as emergency and non-emergency?

Originally posted by HyperFocal:

Who else can help if police are preoccupied? 
Tue, Feb 26, 2008
The Straits Times 

 

I WOULD like to know who residents can contact when the police are unable to respond to calls for help for genuine reasons such as a temporary lack of resources.
Two Monday evenings ago, a group of rowdy teenagers in school uniform - four boys and six girls - decided to make our Housing Board corridor on the upper floors their party venue.

They were noisy. At first, they were verbally obscene. Then, when they started burning tissue paper and sniffing glue, they took off their tops.

Concerned, my wife called the police.
 
When no officer arrived after about 20 minutes, she called another police station and was advised that they were informed of her report and would send officers to check.
After an hour, and with no sign of the police, my wife called the police to ask why they hadn't come.

She was told resources were limited because there were more urgent reports that required attention. I can accept the explanation and understand the difficult demands placed on our police force.

I have two suggestions:

First, the police should advise residents who else they can call for help if such situations arise - the town council, perhaps?

Second, residents should be advised on a subsequent course of action to safeguard themselves if the police are unable to attend to public calls for assistance. For instance, how do we know when to call whom?
The teenagers left behind a mess. They threw some packs of liquid over the parapet and left a trail of painkillers, burnt tissue, glue and sweet wrappers.

However, we considered ourselves lucky in this case because no one was hurt.

Eu Eng Sing

 

cases like this should call town councils as it happens outside the house unit..however, if the runts actually create a scene with you den call police..

1. was the students taking off their tops female? (If not, whats wrong about them taking off their tops??) ((I dont think POs are keen to see topless boys.))

2. Sniffing glue?  Was that urgent?  That kids killing themself with glue or jumping off buildings? (In the boad sense, yes.  And it might have been helpful that residents take on a stance to detain and hand over the kids for punishment instead of accusi g the kids of sniffing glue with no evidence execpt of the noises they make.

3. who else to call?  tkae note of the school uniform and call the schools.  better yet, you can try taking pics of them and submitting as ecidence of their troublemaking.

most public service seriously has lousy service.

manpower is always short & good officers dont stay.  our only lucky aspect of singapore is that its small and safe for kids to be outdoors w/o supervision even at wee hours of the morning.  we thankfully do not have pedophiles aducting our children the second we blink our eyes.

Sorry to hear about the incident, but srsly, calls are flying everwhere every shift...

FYI... some of the calls we get...

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=26800

Always happen one. Singaporeans kiasi what. Small things call police. Paikia hanging around downstairs all ring police.

Then at the end who suffers? Those people who are in real need of help are the ones who suffers.

Some people are selfish one. Pay tax only must make full use of the Police. Like some who paid their maid, make their maid work till midnight and don't allow them to sleep.