News from Monday, 14 October 2013 in TODAY newspaper:
The police are looking at roping in maids to help fight crime in private housing estates with the launch of an outreach programme aimed at creating more awareness about crime among these workers. The programme , organised by the Ang Mo Kio North Neighbourhood police Centre. Was launch on Saturday at Lentor estate and drew 300 participants, including 78 maids.
According to a police statement, if the programme, called Domestic Eyes on alert, is found to be successful, it could be rolled out to more estates under the centre’s jurisdiction. Namely Sunrise estate along Sunrise Avenue, Cactus estate on Cactus road and Thomson Hill Estate.
The maids, being a “mainstay” of private housing estates, often share close bonds, the police said. “they could help one another to look out for criminals who are often opportunistic in nature and are known to conduct reconnaissance during the day before striking their targets,”they said.
The topics touched on Saturday included house-breaking and theft, trespassing, outrage of modesty and dealing with suspicious characters. Commander of Ang Mo Kio Police Division Keok Tong San said: “roping in domestic helpers to be in the police’s Neighborhood Watch programme makes perfect sense, especially for landed estates where domestic helpers are often the ones who are moving in and about the estate.” CHANNEL NEWSASIA
From my point of view from this news, as some of us ever heard that some burglars or thieves come breaking in into somebody house, and making a abuse to whoever seen them in, whether is your own wife or daughter or even your maid or nanny!! For some reason they are not train to defend themselves when danger approached to them. As they think that this day will never happen in their life, as some maybe because they feel too lucky in their life thinking that everything will be alright everything gonna be fine. But to me, nothing in this world has ever been safe ever since..whether army or police force..they still can kill their ass out..whether with a gun , a metal rod or anything dangerous as that. Accident happens for a reason, some even gone missing or never come back home since then.. Shit happens you see..i guess nobody can ever be safe or be trusted as alot of disaster keep ongoing in all years..never once you ever heard a peaceful one. Well to be safe do train some secret combat for defending yourself from bad guys especially..this apply to not just ladies but to guys too! Such like Taekwondo or Karate or Tai Chi or even Kung Fu! all this will work out if you mix everything together and everything will go well. Protect yourself and those dear to you! That’s all for today news, Thank You for reading!
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