3 SMRT Staff Commended by the Police; 2 Station Managers Received Community Partnership Award

3 SMRT Staff Commended by the Police; 2 Station Managers Received Community Partnership Award. (Photo: SMRT/Facebook)

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has commended three SMRT Trains staff – presenting the Community Partnership Award to two station managers and the Public Spiritedness Award to an off-duty senior engineer on Tuesday (Oct 11).

Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police (DAC) Masagoes Idris Hussain, Commander of Public Transport Security Command (TransCom), expressed his appreciation to the award recipients for making the public land transport network a safer and more secure place to commute.

SMRT Staff Commended by the Police

Community Partnership Award

SSM Mohamad Tahar Bin Manaf being awarded the Community Partnership Award by DAC Masagoes Idris Masagoes Hussain. (Photo: SPF)

In the first incident on Jul 31, 2022, Senior Station Manager (SSM) Mohamad Tahar Bin Manaf was commended by the Police for his ability to identify a man who had committed an outrage of modesty on a train through information given by SMRT’s Operations Control Centre (OCC).

SSM Tahar detained the man and contacted the Police for assistance. The man was subsequently arrested.

SM Izhar Bin Mohamed Ibrahim being awarded the Community Partnership Award by DAC Masagoes Idris Masagoes Hussain. (Photo: SPF)

In the second incident on Aug 26, 2022, Station Manager (SM) Izhar Bin Mohamed Ibrahim and Transit Security Officer (TSO) Tan Kian Ann were commended by the Police for their ability to identify a man who had committed voyeurism at Clementi MRT station.

SM Izhar and TSO Tan worked together to detain the man until the Police arrived.

Public Spiritedness Award

Senior Engineer Pandiyan Sethuprivan being awarded the Public Spiritedness Award by DAC Masagoes Idris Masagoes Hussain. (Photo: SPF)

On Aug 14, 2022, Senior Engineer Pandiyan Sethuprivan, also a Riders-on-Watch volunteer of the Community Watch Scheme (CWS), saw a male commuter suffering from fits on a train.

Senior Engineer Pandiyan, who was not on duty at the time, stepped forward to render immediate assistance and tended to the unwell commuter at Bugis MRT station until the ambulance arrived.

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External Links
Seven Members Of The Public Presented With Public Spiritedness Award And Three Staff Presented With Community Partnership Award – SPF [Accessed 14 Oct 2022]
“For their acts of public spiritedness in separate cases of outrage of modesty and voyeurism, Senior Station Manager Mohamad Tahar Bin Manaf and Station Manager Izhar Bin Mohamed Ibrahim, were presented the Public Spiritedness Award by the Singapore Police Force yesterday (11 Oct)! ??” – SMRT/Facebook [Accessed 14 Oct 2022]

Images by SPF, SMRT/Facebook.
This article first appeared on SGTrains.