Emcee Richard Style: Marine Parade NPC Community Policing System (COPS) Launch

Event: Marine Parade Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) Community Policing System (COPS) Launch

Venue: Marine Parade

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Guest of Honour

Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong

Grassroots Advisor for Marine Parade GRC

SPF is embarking on the new Community Policing System (COPS) that allows frontline resources to be more nimble, focused and responsive in fighting crime and at the same time deeply engage the community.

COPS is part of SPF’s continuous efforts to improve and stay abreast of changes in the operating environment. The plan is aimed at enhancing SPF’s capabilities to prevent, deter and detect crime with additional resources pumped to the frontline for crime fighting and community engagement. Developments in information technology and camera technology also offer opportunities to do things better and more efficiently.

Although SPF’s operational results have shown improvements, these changes are necessary to further improve on the already-low crime rates in Singapore and gear up Police to the next level to meet the challenges of a changing society.

At the same time, the public’s expectations of Police are also shifting. The public no longer expects Police to merely respond to and solve crime, but to also take more proactive steps in preventing and deterring crime through more presence on the ground and interactions with the community.