This article relates an incident of a person who was assaulted. He found that the Police did not have sufficient manpower and professionalism to carry out the investigation. He had to do the investigation on his own.
During the past years, I have also observed several incidents where the Police was quite sloppy in carrying out the investigation work. I suspect that it was due to shortage of manpower - but other factors could come into play, such as a lowering in the sense of duty. It seemed to be quite common to pass the buck around and point to somebody else to do the dirty work. Sadly, this has become our national culture.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/02/polices-manpower-shortage-how-is-that-my-problem-expat-assault-victims-tell-all/
One possible reason for the shortage of manpower is that most graduates prefer to work in the financial sector, who pays high salaries or to be property agents, insurance agents or financial advisers. Fewer people are willing to do the work as a police, investigator or other traditional occupations.
We need to get a better balance in the deployment of our resources. The finance and property sectors are the non-productive sectors of our economy. They should not be taking away so much manpower, to the detriment of the other sectors
During the past years, I have also observed several incidents where the Police was quite sloppy in carrying out the investigation work. I suspect that it was due to shortage of manpower - but other factors could come into play, such as a lowering in the sense of duty. It seemed to be quite common to pass the buck around and point to somebody else to do the dirty work. Sadly, this has become our national culture.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/02/polices-manpower-shortage-how-is-that-my-problem-expat-assault-victims-tell-all/
One possible reason for the shortage of manpower is that most graduates prefer to work in the financial sector, who pays high salaries or to be property agents, insurance agents or financial advisers. Fewer people are willing to do the work as a police, investigator or other traditional occupations.
We need to get a better balance in the deployment of our resources. The finance and property sectors are the non-productive sectors of our economy. They should not be taking away so much manpower, to the detriment of the other sectors
5 comments:
Maybe cases of assault are not that many, and also its impact on society and politics is not that great, unlike drug trafficking or illegal assemblies and protests.
Therefore when there is shortage of manpower and resources, and nothing much can or will be done about it, therefore response and actions need to be prioritised.
Which is what may be perceived and observed as happening.
And I do not see this manpower and resource issue being easily resolved. Or else the PAP govt, being very decisive and effective, would have done it already.
Is it really manpower shortage? I remember reading somewhere that when a few SDP people go walk the streets they were surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of men in blue.
Does not sound like manpower shortage.
The problem is the natural tendency to go for softer jobs which pays handsomely in the double quicktime and least efforts...the way I view it as a "value chain" process.
But even our Govt takes the easier route or softer approach. Our GLC can become big property developers...or simply put landlords. Govt makes easy money through "land sales". They control the energy market through "rights" but sell the power stations to China firms. They make money through COE & ERP many more times than manufacturers of cars. Collect billion dollars in levies from 2 casinoes.
They leave the messy and dirty jobs to "contractors" (and common people down the value chain)...they can still retain easy softer jobs as "consultants" in the middle via privatised companies.
So even engineers...there are "softer" design engineers grade versus the "harder" field engineers grade.
It gets more messy when costs and wages are "squeezed" down this "value chain" ... then they bring in so called foreign FTs to fill the void. Wages then get stagnated and marginalised down the chain.
But at the other end, the Govt also pay themselves million-dollar salaries.
But can they bring in FTs to be policeman??? lol. Perhaps, one day ... after all we have the Gurkha Contingent.
I have always shared this perception with anyone who care to listen. Yes, our SPF is not only short-handed, but lacking in the "fighting spirit" one expect from a security agency.
This perception was formed decades ago , mind you and has yet to be dis-spelled.
This perception stemmed from a personal experience or two. No bull !
C H Yak:
You are right!
It is as you say: a Value chain.
and this approach will continue, since the rewards ( to the individual ) is immense and does not require hard laborous and tedious work.
Just hire a cook,maid etc as long as the pricing & costing is acceptable.. sit back and collect money.. same as franchising.. IPO etc
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