HOW would Singaporeans react to a possible New York Times Square
car bomb scare in their midst? The Police conducted an exercise to
find this out two weeks ago.
They parked cars at nine locations around the city, rigged them
to show the tell-tale signs of a car bomb and watched to see how
the public would react.
The results: 52 public-spirited Singaporeans alerted the police
while most of the 7,000 people who walked near the smoking vehicles
simply strolled by.
The Police said it will use the lessons from the exercise to
improve and expand its public engagements strategies.
The details of the exercise and the results were revealed by
Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng on Tuesday morning at the
National Security Seminar. It was his first speech as the
Coordinating Minister for National Security.
He said the results show that the public is generally complacent
about the possibility of terrorist attacks here, but the fact that
there were some who alerted the authorities was cause for
satisfaction.
(i wonder if real bombs give out smoke to warn ppl first.)
