Mas Selemat Capture

The escaped criminal, Mas Selamat, had been captured. He had been caught on April 1 but the Malaysia policeman did not know his indentity and thus, resulting him in being indentified and captured now.

To recall, Mas Selamat escaped during february last year. He was one of the most dangerous man in Singapore as he was a JI member and had planned to attack Singapore before he was captured. He escaped when he faked a toilet break, and slipped out through a window.

It was definitely horrifying to see that Singapore, a country known for his security,
had such a hiccup that became so serious. I think the Singapore officials need to reinforce the securities. It also became a wonder how Singapore have another hiccup by allowing Mas Selamat to go to Malaysia unnoticed. This matter needs to be addressed.

Here are several areas I think our security can improve.
1) The most important mistake that the police make is to let Mas Selamat slipped off just like that. A question? Why did they made the windows in the first place? They might say it is for air refreshment. I personally think that they can change the height of the window so that it would not be as easy to climb out of the windows. They also can change the size of the window as it is suprising that one could actually slip through the windows and escape.

2) The other mistake that results in why it taken so long for Mas Selamat to be capture is the lack of borderlines security. I read in the Straits Times that they are several ways of escaping. One of them is actually from the Sewbawang beach to Stulang which was suprisingly just 1.1km away. Quoted from Strait times Prime 5, someone actually said,"Although they are boats guarding the coastline, one may easily swim through when they are caught sleeping". This make me awestruck.
This is serious. I think the they need to be aware of what is happening especially that they know that a criminal has just escaped. I think there needs to be more and shorter shift so that the guardmen would be more aware and not be tired, thus not doing their job.

I hope the security of Singapore can be better.

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