SECURITY at train depots run by public-transport provider SMRT
has been stepped up after a train in one of its depots was
vandalised last month, SMRT said yesterday.
Its chief executive and president, Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, said: "We
deeply regret that a serious security lapse occurred in our
depot... Since the breach, we have taken immediate steps to
strengthen our security and prevent a recurrence."
It has increased the number of patrols and security staff of the
security companies it hires at each depot.
It will install concertina wire large coils of barbed wire along
the perimeter of all its depots to reinforce fences, and more
closed-circuit television cameras to scan the perimeters.
SMRT is working with the authorities to implement more measures
to strengthen security, including more surveillance and
intrusion-detection systems, said its head of security and
emergency planning, Mr Choy Kin Chong.
SMRT runs train depots in Bishan, Changi, Ulu Pandan and Kim
Chuan. The other train operator, SBS Transit, has a train depot in
Sengkang.
Between late May 16 and early May 17, two men allegedly cut the
fence at Changi Depot and sprayed graffiti on one side of a train.
SMRT made a police report only two days later.
Yesterday, it explained the delay in detecting the security
breach. It said that its staff conduct daily safety checks on the
trains before they are deployed, but the staff who saw the graffiti
mistook it for an advertisement.
The graffiti was recognised as vandalism and the breach in the
fence was found only after the train was recalled for scheduled
maintenance, it said.
Last Saturday, Swiss national Oliver Fricker, 32, a business
consultant, was charged with damaging public property, vandalism
and trespass. He is out on bail and is expected in court on June
21.
If he is convicted of vandalism, he can be jailed up to three
years, fined up to $2,000 and given up to eight strokes of the
cane. For trespassing, he faces a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail
term of up to two years.
His alleged accomplice, British citizen Lloyd Dane Alexander, is
said to have fled to Hong Kong.
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地铁车厂保安加强
针对地铁列车涂鸦事件，SMRT承认疏失，并将进行补救，包括提高地铁车厂的监控，及安装更多入侵检测系统（intrusion
detection system），防止类似事件重演。
SMRT也将在车厂周边的篱笆添加蛇腹形铁丝网（concertina wires），并在车厂安装更多电眼和移动探测器（motion
detector），提高车厂的保安。
SMRT总裁苏碧华在昨天发表的文告中，对地铁车厂的保安疏失深表抱歉，并表示自涂鸦事件发生后，SMRT已立即采取行动加强保安。
SMRT已检讨所有地铁车厂的保安系统，并增派保安人员增加巡逻次数。当局也提高了车厂周围的能见度，阻吓想要闯入车厂者。
一名33岁瑞士籍男子涉嫌在上月17日凌晨，剪破樟宜地铁站车厂的篱笆，潜入车厂内，在地铁车身涂鸦。
SMRT也针对事件发生后没有第一时间报警解释说，工作人员当天就发现列车车身上的涂鸦，但误以为是一个广告，所以没有通报。直到19日下午，列车被送到维修厂进行例常维修时，维修人员才作出通知。SMRT随后报警，同时对此事展开调查。
SMRT负责管理本地5个面积相当于106个足球场大小的地铁车厂，以及82个地铁和轻轨列车站。
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