ST Forum: Baffled By Body Find Near Istana

[Vulcann]

Baffles me as well...

 

From ST Forum:

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Online...ory_703082.html

 

Baffled by body find near Istana

 

YESTERDAY'S report ('Decayed body found in drain near Istana grounds') concerned and baffled me.

 

The grounds of the Istana, its surroundings and peripheral roads and byways are supposed to be protected and heavily guarded by auxiliary police officers, Singapore Armed Forces personnel and officers from the Security Command of the Singapore Police Force.

 

I also understand there are round-the-clock perimeter patrols carried out by auxiliary police officers who are tasked with maintaining stringent security standards.

 

Thus it baffles me that none of the auxiliary police officers on perimeter patrols came across the corpse, even when the body was decomposing.

 

It takes about 30 hours for decomposition to occur in this climate and the stench can be detected kilometres away.

 

It is strange that police officers who are trained to be alert did not stumble across the body, let alone smell the decomposition in the air.

 

Lionel De Souza

[Beehive3783]

Haha he's shooting the dogs that patrol the area

[Ender]

Like their boss, the guards are purely ceremonial.

[Pyramid_sg]

Not a good sign......

[Mustank]

who is lionel de souza?

[Ahtong]

who is lionel de souza?

 

Former polis turned private investigator. Regular contributor of ball carrying / self promoting letters to ST

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Well, most auxiliary police officers are FT recuit from MY ............

[Celicar]

Never spot - maybe because not allowed to walk around.

 

Never smell - maybe because surrounding normally already smell like that.

 

[Sirjimmy]

well, the body could have already been decmposing prior to being dump there.

And so, been there for less than a hour or so before being discover.

Jus wondering unless its a smurf's body, else how come the act itself was not discovered at once...

wouldn't it signal that planting harmful devices in our trains and istana be really easy?

[Donut]

all the guards have the NS mentality.

 

All go through motions only, brains not working

[Rainbowbiatch]

Never spot - maybe because not allowed to walk around.

 

Never smell - maybe because surrounding normally already smell like that.

 

[laugh]

[Vulcann]

Another reported case of MRT train with graffiti on it today.

 

Despite all the "complacency" accusations levelled against anybody & everybody, lapses like this still happen.

 

We seriously have a problem...