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.