News reporting (Interview) by witnesses

Source quoted by CPL - a young police from the neighborhood police post, giving some tips to prevention about vandalism:

Learning how to distinguish suspicious items from non-suspicious items. Knowing what to do when a suspicious unattended item is found. Assisting securiting personnel or the authorities when a search is required.....

Witnessed by Mr Poh Hu Li from Blk 4- witnessed another crime in car park,where a schoolboy was beaten up by a gang of 4 older boys one week ago:

I witnessed one crime in car park, where a schoolboy was beaten up by a gang of older boys last week. 

Here are some personal tips: 

The parent should go with their children in the night, especially the younger children. School children should go back home with others. Not go to the remote place lonely, especially at night.

Witnessed by Mrs Vejaya from Blk 7- a quiet person and married with 2 children, she saw similar vandalism last year:

It was late at night when I was heading home from work. I parked my car at the multi-storey car park and saw an orange muscle car was being vandalized. This is not the first time that happened to Car vandalism. It has been happening quite awhile for now from what I have seen last year. 

Witnessed by Mr Tan Bee Wee from Blk 3- a student from RP witnessed the first-hand someone vandalising a car two months back:

I saw a man vandalising the cars two months back. He was about 1.7m tall with a tanned complexion. His hair was matted and short; his eyes are oval in shape with a sharp nose and lips with piercing. Also his build are like average and there is a dragon tattoo at his shoulder and a big phoenix tattoo at his calf. Also his left arm has a big scar spanning about 2 inches long.

Witnessed by Mr Loo Talkalot from Blk 12- A person who was a victim of car vandalism 2 months ago. A vain person who speaks rather fast and remember only the fashion side of things. 

I was on my way back home and I saw some teenagers loitering around the car-park. When I was about to go to the lift lobby, I heard some windows smashing sound and I went back to the carpark. To my horror, I saw one of the cars windows had been vandalized. After that I report this incident to the police. 

Brochures

The police have issued out brochures on the topic of how to be aware of the actions required to fight terrorism

Current crime situation

Overall Crime Under Control The overall crime reported in 2009 increased marginally by 0.2% from 33,113 cases in 2008 to 33,186 cases. Overall crime rate2 in 2009 was 665, lower than 684 in 2008. Annex A shows the breakdown of overall crime in 2009 compared to 2008.

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Tips on how to prevent vandalism & crime

10 Things Your Community Can Do To Stop Crime

1. Work with public agencies and other organizations -- neighborhood-based or community-wide -- on solving common problems. Don't be shy about letting them know what your community needs.
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3. Find positive ways for youth in the neighborhood to spend their spare time, through organized recreation, tutoring programs, part-time work, and volunteer opportunities.
4. Set up a Neighborhood Watch or a community patrol, working with police. Make sure your streets and homes are well lighted.
5. Build a partnership with police, focused on solving problems instead of reacting to crises. Make it possible for neighbors to report suspicious activity or crimes without fear of retaliation.
6. Take advantage of safety in numbers to hold rallies, marches, and other group activities to show you're determined to drive out crime and drugs.
7. Clean up the neighborhood! Involve everyone -- teens, children, senior citizens. Graffiti, litter, abandoned cars, and run-down buildings tell criminals that you don't care about where you live or each other. Call the city public works department and ask for help in cleaning up.
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9. Ask local officials to use new ways to get criminals out of your building or neighborhood. These include enforcing anti-noise laws, housing codes, health and fire codes, anti-nuisance laws, and drug-free clauses in rental leases.
10. Work with schools to establish drug-free, gun-free zones; work with recreati on officials to do the same for parks.
11. Develop and share a phone list of local organizations that can provide counseling, job training, guidance, and other services that neighbors might need.

Here are the videos where you can have an idea of taking precautions:

Videos on Safety & security:

Videos on keeping Singapore safe from terrorism:

Crime-prevention poster snapped by neighbours

The police have came up with a few posters which is place at various places. Are there any views on these whether is it efficient enough to create awareness of crime-prevention for the public?

Forwarded email from,


Jon from Blk 3, Vic Street

News

This was an email received from Jon mentioning about vandalism:

Last night I was parking the car at Blk 10 level 3 multi-storey car park. And I saw one of the cars were vandalized badly. I couldn't believe with my eyes that such people would do this kind of irrational act. Also, I have attached the pictures which i took last night to show evidence of the scene that I witnessed. I hope everyone can be on the lookout for each other and inform suspicious characters in our neighborhoods.

All these cars are sprayed with paint and scratched

*This email was forwarded to warn to all the neighbors that vandalism are happening around in the neighborhood.