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Suspect Shot As He Posed Danger, Say Ex-Policemen

Opening fire at a suspect is not part of police protocol for roadblocks, and the reason that Mohamed Taufik Zahar was shot dead by officers early on Sunday was that he had posed a danger to the law enforcers, two former police officers told TODAY.

“The most the police can do is give chase and try to bring (suspects) into custody. Use of deadly force or opening fire is not an option in (roadblock breaches),” said a former officer who left the Singapore Police Force a decade ago.

However, officers would be justified in using deadly force in Sunday’s incident if a police officer’s life were in danger. That the incident took place near Shangri-La Hotel, where a high-level security summit was being hosted, is secondary, said the former police officers.

The police had said in a statement that “officers fired at the vehicle to stop it from causing harm to others and from proceeding further”.

The incident occurred at about 4.36am after the red Subaru Impreza driven by Mohamed Taufik, with two passengers, suddenly accelerated when the police were questioning the trio at a checkpoint along Ardmore Park.

The police declined to comment on what warnings were given to the driver, or its standard operating procedures for handling those who run police checks, as investigations are ongoing. The car came to a stop about 200m from the checkpoint.

The former police officers said checks could be more extensive at roadblocks for high-security events than for routine roadblocks, and the structure of the checkpoint could be more comprehensive, with more blockages, such that motorists would find it more difficult to speed off.

They added that those who try to do so could have committed various offences ranging from driving under influence, immigration violations, failure to attend court or drug-related misdeeds. Such occurrences are rare, partly because “Singapore is small, so there’s nowhere really to run”, said one of the former officers, who estimated that he was involved in about 100 roadblock operations.

Source: www.todayonline.com

June 2, 2015
Wife Of Man Shot Dead In Shangri-La Incident Questions If Police Were Right To Shoot Him

The alleged wife of the man shot dead in the Shangri-La dash through incident has spoken up. In a Facebook post to the Singapore Police Force FB page, the woman who goes by the moniker Fifi Divinez (Nassida Nasir) questioned if the police is justified to shoot dead her husband with a M-16 rifle just because he tried to escape. According to her, her husband tried to escape the road block because he was driving without a valid license.

This was what she posted on SPF’s Facebook page:

“Good Job To SPF yes ..and now tell me i am his Wife.My Name is Nassida Nasir .So tell me is it justify of the law to shot dead right on my husband head just because he tried to run away? Well people the real reason is bcoz he drove away and hit the barricades due to he did not have a driving license ! So is this how he will be punished ? And if it is a high security and professionals ones , they should know whether they hit a real terrorist. And here i am , with my 2months new born baby living without a father ! Who was scared and running away without a driving license and punished in terrible way ! So tell me if it was your husband can u live everyday without thinking of the incident !”

In response to some commentors who criticized her defense of her deceased husband, she said:

“Oh yeah , and so (not siding anyone) if the drugs was his , was the law created to shoot a person on the head w a riffle of M16 , tell me pls.. Cos i just can’t accept the way he was being punished.”

“The have just came out from cantonment and let me clarify this to you that bag wasn’t even carried w him , and i do not need to say who or whoever but what i can say he ran because he broke the law and the only thing he did was driving w/o license ! Do u even think if there was so much of drugs ? Wouldn’t they check the news and avoid such places like shang ri la thr because there was a high security road block . And my ans is my late husband was only enjoying his joyride ! And the joyride ended DEAD of his mischief”

For more potential updates from the deceased wife, you may visit the Facebook link posted below.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

June 2, 2015
51 Year Old Kidney Patient Looking For A Flexible Office Job

Thousands of Singaporeans go to the hundreds of dialysis centres every day spread all over the island due to kidney failure.

They do it thrice a week religiously forever or alternately they receive a kidney from a donor of which they need to pay $200,000 for a hospital transplant ops.

We visited 51-year-old Indera who faces kidney failure recently and he has just started his dialysis two months back.

He is undergoing his dialysis when we visited him.

He is extremely positive and could even passed as a spokesman for kidney failure patients.

He pays $200 per session at a private dialysis centre due to his $4000/month income as a cheuffeur cum asst working for a Korean company.

NKF dialysis is alot cheaper but there is a salary cap.

Unfortunately he lost his job recently and has to make do with his PR wife pay of $1700 as a F & B captain.

They have a 1 1/2 year baby.

To complicate matters, while waiting for his BTO flat they have to rent a 3-room flat paying $2300 a month.

Mr Adnan is looking for a job in the office and if you are open to hiring a guy on dialysis please let us know.

No one should be left behind.

Editor’s note: visit was done together with Ms Janna Rehanna.

Source: Gilbert Goh

May 29, 2015
Wakaf: Hajjah Fatimah Mosque

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Philanthropist #2: Hajjah Fatimah
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Gazetted as a National Monument in 1973, Masjid Hajjah Fatimah is one of the mosques named after a woman. This is in recognition of the generosity of this wealthy tradeswoman, who contributed much to help the poor and needy in Singapore. She also generously built several houses around the area for the poor to reside.

Consistent with the spirit of perpetual giving in wakaf, she wanted her charitable acts to continue even after she had passed. Thus, Hajjah Fatimah made a bequest that upon her death, the income from the leased houses was to be used for the maintenance of the mosque. Hajjah Fatimah’s grave lies in a private enclosure within the mosque’s compound, together with her daughter, Raja Siti Kraeng Chanda Pulih and son-in-law, Syed Ahmad Bin Abdulrahman Alsagoff.

Source: MUIS

May 28, 2015
47 year Old Man Jailed And Caned For Sexually Assault On 12 Year Old Daughter

A 47-year-old man who sexually assaulted his daughter in 2012 and 2013 was jailed on Wednesday (May 27) for 13 years and given 12 strokes of the cane.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, had touched his 12-year-old daughter’s vagina and violated her repeatedly in 2012.

He had told her to undress following the victim’s complaint of having body aches.

While massaging her, he touched her private parts.

She kept the incident a secret as she feared nobody would believe her.

Unfortunately, a year later in February 2013, the man assaulted her again in a room he was sharing with his wife, another daughter and the victim, then 13.

Source: www.tnp.sg

May 28, 2015