More officers are needed to help secure Singapore’s national entry points
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/14
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Over the last week in Singapore, it came to the public’s
A CISCO APO with armored car in Singapore. (By Wikimedia Commons)
attention that the government would likely begin hiring Taiwanese recruits as auxiliary police officers (APOs) to meet the rising need for security personnel in the city-state.
The Singaporean Minister of Home Affairs K Shanmugam said last week on Jan. 8 that the Singaporean government was having difficulty hiring the necessary amount of Singaporean and Malaysian APOs to meet the country’s needs, and that Taiwan was being considered as a possible recruiting location.
The Minister said that “Operational needs are growing significantly, everywhere, including our checkpoints. Visitor numbers are growing and at the same time, the threats of terrorism have risen substantially,” reports Channel News Asia.
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