The search at the Bukit Brown area should have been the first
thought, as desparate man that managed to breakout of the ISD
Whitley Detention Centre would not have created a big stir by
limping across an 8 lane PIE at 4.05 p.m. - when the evening rush
hour traffic was slowly building up.
Even up till Thursday morning - more then 12 hours later - the
area of search was limited to an area south of the PIE in the area
around Chancery Lane, and no attention seems to be given to the
area north of the Detention Centre - towards the MacRitchie
area.
There are many trails and track within the MacRitchie-Seletar
catchment area, and the SAF should be used now to sweep
through this area, and lay ambush along all known trails and
tracks.
The coastal area - especially along the swamp area of Kranji-Lim
Chu Kang, Sembawang-Punggol, and quiet beach fronts along the
Changi reclaimed area, East Coast and West Coast Park should now be
patrolled more frequently.
The Marine Police or Coast Guard and the Singapore Navy will be
the last line of the cordon, if this bird can penetrate this last
cordon, then he is home free.
He will now need to move through heavily populated areas,
and will do so under heavy disguise during the day - may even
cross-dress, or move under cover of darkness.
For Total Defense to truly work, every Singaporean will have to
memorise this face and imagine a female wig and dress over a
heavy male.body.
The initial failure of applying the Total Defense concept by
this Government showed that it is used as a political tool to
galvanise common people together to serve a political end.
Let Singaporeans show the Ruling Party what Total Defense truly
is.