Frankly it seems no one knows what are the duties of a police in patrol. The police patrol car......are they on the road looking for traffic offenders ? are they on the road round Singapore waiting for calls from head-quarters for assignments ?
Many months ago, there was a heated arguement between a man and a stall holder. Many utencils were spread all over the place. Kopitiam call the police, waited for more than 20 minutes, a patrol car arrived, 4 police officers walked into Kopitiam, they talked and eventually, the trouble maker, the stall holder and police officers had a " meeting " at the annexed void deck. They talked and talked, but I can't wait for them to finish, I left.
About cases of house-breaking, probably the police will come, interview the owner or caller, go round the whole place, talk to neighbours, case recorded. After that ??
From past newspaper report, if there were no injuries, weapons used, death or whatever, probably the police may not take action, but case recorded.
Talking to our MP at meet the people session, our MP will be most willing and happy to write to the relevent authorities, but the process takes months if not years to see result.
So lets wait for miracles to happen.
