The Straits Times July 23, 2009 carried a report on a former grassroot and youth leader who molested a teen-aged girl got away with a fine of only S$2,000.
The only reasons that this guy got off with a lighter fine compared to a security guard who was fined S$4,000 for molesting incident a few weeks earlier are probably his 28 testimonies of his good social works and he is better educated and hold a higher position than the guard.
I really pity all innocent girls and ladies too, who might get molested by these sexual perverts and the beauty of it, they are likely fined between $2-4k, with the maximum allowable fine of $10k.
Those who are educated will certainly be let off with a lower fine of $2k while those who are lowly educated or blue-collared worker will probably attract a $4k fine.
Cheap way to get cheap thrill!
Way to go guys, after all, Singapore is known as a "Fine City" by foreigners and shops selling these t-shirts as souvenirs.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
And you thought co-broke is only mainly found in real estate deals
There are some security guard agencies (including those rated 'A' by the SIRD) that are in cahoots in 'unwritten' or 'unorthodox' deals to pass clients that had rejected an agency to fellow collaborators, in what I'd call a 'price-fixing' scam.
There are many countless security loopholes that can be exploited by those who are 'smarter' than the rest.
Some even made use of their Member of Parliament to help them secure certain certifications that in turn qualifies their agency to be rated 'A' by the SIRD.
My retirement plan is ready and when I officially made it good, I will no longer or blog lesser as time does not permit me.
Wonder why people are afraid to leave a message on my shoutbox or even email to me.
It's not as if I'm anti anybody or any organizations.
I'm not a political activist or an anti terrorist or anti government, just a security professional making it big, legally of course!
Cheers!
There are many countless security loopholes that can be exploited by those who are 'smarter' than the rest.
Some even made use of their Member of Parliament to help them secure certain certifications that in turn qualifies their agency to be rated 'A' by the SIRD.
My retirement plan is ready and when I officially made it good, I will no longer or blog lesser as time does not permit me.
Wonder why people are afraid to leave a message on my shoutbox or even email to me.
It's not as if I'm anti anybody or any organizations.
I'm not a political activist or an anti terrorist or anti government, just a security professional making it big, legally of course!
Cheers!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Majority of security guard agencies still unprofessional
Despite facing manpower shortages of licensed guards (including Supervisors, Executives, etc), many security guard agencies still lacked the professionalism expected of them by clients as well as for jobseekers.
A handful of the guard agency bosses, including those key appointment holders such as General Managers and Operations Managers has taken their own initiative to attend the WSQ Diploma in Security Management course.
Even some Grade 'A' agencies are still lacking the effective management as required for their grading by the SIRD.
Many are still taking advantage or manipulate their security personnel by including a clause in their employment form that required those staff still on 3 months probation (some even required 6 months probation) to serve 14 days' notice if they want to resign.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) suggested 1 day's notice for unconfirmed staff.
Some of the guard agencies even have a column asking candidates to state their last place of work, example, Plaza Fantasy or Xanga Condo and this causes a breach of confidentiality of the previous guard agency that they had worked for.
What was the motive or intention of these unethical guard agencies? Poaching? Planning to tender for the future contract?
A handful of the guard agency bosses, including those key appointment holders such as General Managers and Operations Managers has taken their own initiative to attend the WSQ Diploma in Security Management course.
Even some Grade 'A' agencies are still lacking the effective management as required for their grading by the SIRD.
Many are still taking advantage or manipulate their security personnel by including a clause in their employment form that required those staff still on 3 months probation (some even required 6 months probation) to serve 14 days' notice if they want to resign.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) suggested 1 day's notice for unconfirmed staff.
Some of the guard agencies even have a column asking candidates to state their last place of work, example, Plaza Fantasy or Xanga Condo and this causes a breach of confidentiality of the previous guard agency that they had worked for.
What was the motive or intention of these unethical guard agencies? Poaching? Planning to tender for the future contract?
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Security officer fined for molesting student
This article was reported in page B4 from The Straits Times, July 7, 2009.
A 37 years old male Chinese security officer was fined S$4,000 for molesting a 21 years old student on board of the MRT train.
In my personal opinion, this guy was very lucky not to have receive a jail sentence of up to 2 years as this will cause him to lose his private security license.
However, this may set a precedent for future similar offences as the offenders may use this case as their benchmark in order to avoid a jail sentence.
I believe that all uniformed security personnel should uphold their pride, dignity, professionalism and moral because they are perceived extra eyes and ears for the SPF to reduce or mitigate any crimes, security threats, etc and also act as a deterrent to terrorists.
I believe that certain crimes like molesting should not be a good excuse to escape a jail sentence for any uniformed guys because these guys will tarnish the reputation of other innocent guards who are out to earn a decent living, no amount of any compensation and/or apology to the victim is justified as they are from uniformed group, although they may be from private security agency.
A 37 years old male Chinese security officer was fined S$4,000 for molesting a 21 years old student on board of the MRT train.
In my personal opinion, this guy was very lucky not to have receive a jail sentence of up to 2 years as this will cause him to lose his private security license.
However, this may set a precedent for future similar offences as the offenders may use this case as their benchmark in order to avoid a jail sentence.
I believe that all uniformed security personnel should uphold their pride, dignity, professionalism and moral because they are perceived extra eyes and ears for the SPF to reduce or mitigate any crimes, security threats, etc and also act as a deterrent to terrorists.
I believe that certain crimes like molesting should not be a good excuse to escape a jail sentence for any uniformed guys because these guys will tarnish the reputation of other innocent guards who are out to earn a decent living, no amount of any compensation and/or apology to the victim is justified as they are from uniformed group, although they may be from private security agency.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Certis Cisco S$2 million theft was so easy to pull off
The New Paper dated July 6, 2009 carried out a more details of the theft committed by their own auxiliary policeman who has worked there for about 4 years and was very familiar with Certis Cisco's security operations procedures and processes within their cash processing centers.
All this was done without any gadgets or high-technology stuff.
Simply making use of his fellow colleagues' complacency and perhaps even fatigue because all of this routine work procedures and processes has been in place for quite some time already.
This will greatly affect Certis Cisco's security audit should the Security Industry Regulation Department (SIRD) go ahead to implement some major changes in the grading of all security guard agencies within the next year or two and perhaps making it compulsory for all of the security guard agencies to be graded as DPM Wong Kan Seng has mentioned a couple of years ago on "Let the buyers be aware" when they shop around to short-list and then making the final selection on choosing their own security guard agency provider.
Another issue to be seen by the clients are their integrity, handling of immediate crisis and their recovery process like giving assurance, reviewing and tightening existing security procedures and processes.
If a state-owned armed guard provider is seen as slacking or lack the minimum expertise to carry out tasks assigned to them, what else about those private security agencies?
All this was done without any gadgets or high-technology stuff.
Simply making use of his fellow colleagues' complacency and perhaps even fatigue because all of this routine work procedures and processes has been in place for quite some time already.
This will greatly affect Certis Cisco's security audit should the Security Industry Regulation Department (SIRD) go ahead to implement some major changes in the grading of all security guard agencies within the next year or two and perhaps making it compulsory for all of the security guard agencies to be graded as DPM Wong Kan Seng has mentioned a couple of years ago on "Let the buyers be aware" when they shop around to short-list and then making the final selection on choosing their own security guard agency provider.
Another issue to be seen by the clients are their integrity, handling of immediate crisis and their recovery process like giving assurance, reviewing and tightening existing security procedures and processes.
If a state-owned armed guard provider is seen as slacking or lack the minimum expertise to carry out tasks assigned to them, what else about those private security agencies?
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