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More drunk, incapable people arrested at Little India in 2013 compared to 2012

SINGAPORE — More people were arrested at Little India for being drunk and incapable last year compared to 2012, the Committee of Inquiry (COI) was told today.

Singapore should go the way of some cities and ban alcohol consumption in parks, streets, void decks and other public places. TODAY File Photo

Singapore should go the way of some cities and ban alcohol consumption in parks, streets, void decks and other public places. TODAY File Photo

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SINGAPORE — More people were arrested at Little India for being drunk and incapable last year compared to 2012, the Committee of Inquiry (COI) was told today.

Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Ho See Ying, the Commanding Officer of Rochor Neighbourhood Centre, told the COI that there were 60 arrests made last year and 27 arrests in 2012.

She also told the inquiry that there were three complaint cases about auxiliary police officers over the past five years, of which two were “substantiated”. The complaints were made by foreigners, said DSP Ho.

Earlier on, COI Chairman G Pannir Selvam also brought up report by Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily which described the Jurong Penjuru Dormitory as prison-like.

This was disputed by the dormitory’s security manager Saffarullah Adbullah, who said the journalist who wrote the report is “totally wrong”.

For instance, the report had stated that there were barbed wire fences around the dormitory and that the foreign workers were squeezed into cramped dormitories. But Mr Saffarullah said that there is no barbed wire around the dormitory, only fencing.

The inquiry continues.

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