Typical Day of a Police Officer

01.08.2005
:Shift II duties (Night Shift)...
:1930hrs > Fall in for inspection
:1935hrs > Briefing of shift in briefing room...
:Deployed as Fast Response Patrol wit Sgt Imran...
:2008hrs > our first incident(message) to be attended...
:Operation Room, "Echo 5 Romeo 2 Alpha, have you resumed patrol over?"
:Us, "Roger, you can put me now over..."
:Operation Room, "Roger, time check 2050hrs.. Standby another message over..."

Thanks ah! didnt get a chance to have my dinner yet and im attending message one after another.... by the end of the second message... i still have to proceed for another....and this kept going for the whole night... and just when i thought i could have a rest after resuming from one of the message... my supervisor wanted a road block to be done...

ish... and messages didnt stop there... after roadblock.. there are still messages pending...

imran and myself just have this 'heng' between us whenever we go out patrol... never once would it be something smooth sailing... mentally.. we are already prepared for the hectic day....

02.08.2005
:0800hrs > Stand down from Shift II duties...
:0830hrs > Debriefing of shift in briefing room....
:0915hrs > End of debriefing... and off to the locker rooms....

0945hrs... Changed and set to go........... Where to?? Home??

Cpl Norain: "Come ah... Lets go breakfast...."
Sgt ZuL: "Where?? One whole night busy... I really need this breakfast..."
Cpl Norain: "Liat Towers?? BK?? How?"

Dats something new... usually my team mates usual haunts would be either Adam Food Centre, Serene Centre McDonalds or Sixth Ave, Anamalai Coffeeshop...

so i thought why not... we gathered a few more 'kakis' to go... and finally 7 of us proceeded down... 2 cars and a bike... where's all the other bikers?? damn... none are working... either on leave or having other duties... That was a boring ride towards orchard rd...

breakfast at orchard in the morning of a weekday was not a bad experience... there was not much of rowdy crowd.... there was no crowd basically... everything seemed relax for a town area... the road was not that busy compared to the usual town traffic...

Full stomach.. and now its time to go home...

The Talk

Was warming up my bike which was parked at the carpark near to far east shopping centre... and then....

Anonymous, "Sarp... bro.. dah lama tak nampak...."

As i looked up... Khamal! it really has been a long time since we saw each other ard... we had quite a good and interesting conversation to share..

Singapore Police Force
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Learnt that he is now in the force as well... in the special operations command(SOC)... Recently, a conversation between him and his mischievous friend working in the private sector led to a topic of the police force.... His friend had noticed that the police officers are performing patrol duties along Orchard Road and joked that the officers looked like 'Robocops wit fancy arms and padded uniforms...' According to him, the police are carrying things too far.. 'Why the drama?', he explained... A perfect example of Kiasuism according to him...

Being the Khamal that I always know.. Im sure he has a good reply to this...

His reply was, "you can laugh all you want... but i work so that YOU can work..."

?????? > Dat was what was in my head.....

Khamal explained. Police prsence prevents terrorist attacks and criminal activities, making spore safe... a safer spore means more investments and jobs... no foreign businessman will invest in a country if the security risks are high...

to think back.. its true... sometimes we get so caught up with the hassles of life and work that we tend to forget the contribution we made... wat Khamal said was a good point... can you imagine spore without the police force... dat would have been a chaotic sight.... wat he said did get me thinking and at the same time remind me of my contribution to society...

Conclusion - SPF officers work so Singaporeans can work....

Thanks for the reminder Khamal!

3 Comments:

Fluttered across blogs. Landed on yours. Interesting. Love ur skin. Nice & simple. Happy working

By  Anonymous, at August 02, 2005 11:08 PM  

hoho, the song made me jump like nobody's business.
terkejut banget.

anyways, thanks for dropping by and dropping a line, many people dun do that anymore. (dropping a line, i mean) hopefully u'd let me link u so we can drop in ea other's blog more often.

okies Mr Policeman,
happy working!

By  Anonymous, at August 03, 2005 12:12 AM  

ira >> made you jump?? was it too loud?? or was it bcoz its nice?? so which is it?? heheh

aniwae.. ive linked u up... ill drop by ur blog often...

take care ait!

By  Anonymous, at August 03, 2005 3:45 AM  

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