LKYnLHL wrote:
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Source of MRT suicide clip footage a mystery
Derrick A Paulo
[email protected]
More than two months after clips of two suicides on MRT tracks were
posted on the Internet, setting Netizens abuzz, the case of the
unauthorised SMRT recording has ended without any conclusive source
of the leak.
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The police had conducted a probe and submitted their findings to
SMRT, but "the person identified ... is not an SMRT (employee), nor
from the other agencies (Land Transport Authority and the police)
that have access to the footage," said an SMRT spokesperson.
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However, Today understands the person used to have a working link
with SMRT.
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Still, "no criminal offence has been disclosed" based on police
investigations, a police spokesperson told Today.
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The police, who interviewed the 16-year-old blogger who had put the
clips on his website, have also told him that no charges will be
pressed.
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"They only asked me down (to the police station) because they were
curious how I got the videos," wrote the teen in his blog.
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The incidents occurred at Yishun and Admiralty stations.
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SMRT has been looking into the police findings since the start of
March, but now its investigations into the circulation of the
closed-circuit television footage (CCTV) are over.
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"We have reviewed our processes to control access to such material.
This has already been completed and implemented," said the SMRT
spokesperson.
Now, "access to CCTV footage is only upon authorisation by one
designated senior member of the company".
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What sort of control SMRT had had to the access to such materials
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WHICH GLC CEOs/Senior Officials ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ?
THE RELEVANT GLC CEOs/Senior Officials DESERVE A PAY CUT !
It will take a few years for Minister to know to discover that
all the work-site safety recommendations made after the Hotel New
World Collapse Inquiry Commission were actually not implemented at
Nicol Highway Collapse.
One engineer working for Nicol Highway pointed out the safety
problems at this site but he later committed suicide when his
request for transfer out of the site due probably to safety concern
was ignored.
People have given feedbacks after the Nicol Highway collapse asking
why the structural drawings and computation on the collapsed
shoring works below the Nicol Highway tunnel were not checked by
BCD and issued with Permit to commence work only after approval of
necessary computation but BCD at a seminar held at HDB Hub in 2006
simply covered up the issue by saying that there was internal
checking by the relevant department under some sort of subcommittee
supervision.
Is this called structural checking as defined under the amended
BCA. It looks to me it is all a gland cover-up of the Nicol Highway
collapse where the real cause of the collapse is non-approval of
structural drawings and computations by BCD.
None of the million-dollar ministers or top civil servants
responsible to run the BCD appear to be accountable for such major
mistake or negligence.
