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This is truly one of the most fucktard knee jerk reaction by the PAP. One Brit woman with a couple of sailing companions land on a singapore marina and the PAP will now spend tens of millions of $ to erect 80km of barriers. Are you shitting me? This sort of landings have been happening for decades now and they have done nothing about it. It seems that the PAP will use any excuse to spend taxpayer money. What is the tendering and bidding on this? How many of their cronies and supporters will benefit from this? We have a $12 billion defence budget with the best airborne and satellite surveillance in the world, and we still need this 80 km of barriers? Who's fault is it that the SAF and the Marine Police do not talk to each other? WTF. Truly, I believe the country is bankrupt from all this useless spending.
Singapore’s police coast guard will be erecting some 80 kilometers of land- and sea-based physical barriers around its shores in order to protect it from illegal landings like the incident at Raffles Marina in August.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean said this in Parliament on Tuesday in response to a question over the illegal entry of two foreigners into Singapore through Raffles Marina on a private boat.
One of the passengers, a divorced British woman, subsequently tried to snatch her two-year-old son from his Singaporean grandparents.
Teo, who is also coordinating minister for national security, said Singapore’s coast line is currently close to 200km long, with some 180 wharves and jetties as entry points — many of which are within private premises like shipyards and marinas.
Where possible, he added, the authorities have put up physical structures to deter illegal landings at “vulnerable” areas. Right now, there are 63km of barriers around the country’s shores, and with the additional 80km added in future, a total of 143km out of Singapore’s 197km of coastline would be in place to prevent illegal entry, he said.
“This allows our security agencies to focus their attention on areas and vessels that are more likely to pose a threat,” said Teo, who noted that these are not practical in places where sea traffic calls into Singapore through jetties and other landing places.
He also shared that 46 vessels were seized over the past three years for intruding into Singapore, while 144 people were arrested for entering our waters illegally or attempting to land illegally by sea. 49 of them were arrested last year alone.
Furthermore, DPM Teo said owners and occupiers of vessel landing points are also responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient security measures on their premises.
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08-10-2014, 12:00 PM
PAP wants to spend tens of millions $ to erect km of barriers because of 1 Brit woman
