Dr Teo Ho Ping wins the Chan Sek Keong Memorable Award

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I am delighted to announce that Dr Teo Ho Ping has won the inaugural Chan Sek Keong Memorable Award. As you know this award is accorded to anyone who is able to argue confidently why a square is actually a circle. It relates to the complaint by WP on those present at 1997 GE Polling station. It included the current PM, the current President and a former PM who were no candidates at Cheng San but were at the Polling Station. The AG at the time, Chan Sek Keong not only pulled a rabbit out of the hat, but gave his reasons. If he it had been JBJ or CSJ, the only rabbit will come in the form of a stew.

He was given the award for the press conference held yesterday and the comments as follows :

Lock to roof access was intact; PAP town councils to study incident, look for limitations in system

BY
AMANDA LEE
PUBLISHED: MAY 9, 4:13 AM
SINGAPORE — The mystery surrounding the graffiti found on Wednesday along the rooftop of a 22-storey Housing and Development Board (HDB) block deepened yesterday, after coordinating chairman for the People’s Action Party (PAP) Town Councils Teo Ho Pin said investigations by the Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council indicated there was no breach of security measures.

Profanities against the PAP and the police, as well as the symbol for anarchy, were found spray-painted in bright red along the rooftop of Block 85A at Toa Payoh Lorong 4. The lock to the roof access was intact.

No arrests have been announced so far and the police said they are investigating the case. Still, the incident has raised questions about how someone could have entered the area when access to HDB rooftops was supposed to have been tightened after a woman’s body was found in a rooftop water tank in 2011.

Responding to media queries, Dr Teo said that over the past three years, the 15 PAP town councils have implemented various security and safety measures to restrict access to rooftops to authorised personnel only.

“We have also installed enhanced locks for our access doors to the roofs, and brackets with bolts and nuts to secure our rooftop water tank covers,” he said.

He reiterated that the town councils “take a serious view of vandalism, especially for cases which may affect the safety and security of our residents”.

“We will work closely with the police to minimise such vandalism acts,” he added.

The Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council reiterated that it is cooperating closely with the authorities and that it cannot comment on the evidence collected by the police.

Under the current security procedure, authorised personnel have to sign for the key that gives access to the rooftop and be accompanied by an auxiliary police officer.

On whether there is a need to review the security procedure, Dr Teo said the town councils will look at the incident and see if there are “certain limitations in the system”.

“We will review and enhance it, but if it’s not due to that and it’s due to other factors, we will see how we can address (these) … it’s always important to ensure safety and security are protected in all our HDB estates,” he said.

Dr Teo added that the town councils welcome the police’s plan to install closed-circuit television cameras at the ground floor lift lobbies and staircase landings of HDB blocks.


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