Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

Do you feel secure around the people in charge of your security?

I certainly was, especially back during my National Service, we totted weapons with ammunition to patrol the camp. It wasn’t the fact that people would even think of trespassing, but the thought that somebody is wide awake while you are sleeping makes it a lot more easier to go into dreamland.

Not many people have that chance though: in less socially stable countries, you can barely find a competent security system to rely upon. Heck, no matter what kind of system is set up, a maniac crazy enough (and dedicated enough) to wreck some damage will surely ruin everything and hurt somebody. Plus employees under such a system are probably have a danger exposure as high as what the military faces during operations.

So, what is an accepted benchmark for the safety of any given society? I’d say it depends on the attitude of security companies.

• Highly Dangerous: Guards with shifty eyes, hands on their weapons most of the time. Ready to draw and fire.
• Elevated Risk: Guards eyeing the surroundings with wariness, hands tensed, but not on their weapons. Ready to move and strike.
• Normal Risk: Guards with a bored look in the eyes, hands on their work tables. Ready to hand the Visitor’s Book to visitors.
• Low Risk: Guards with shifty eyes, hands on their (other) weapons most of the time. Ready to draw and fire. (No, this is not a mistake.)

You see, with Singapore under the Low Risk category, it has become unsafe for the average lady to go past the guard house alone.

Not only do the security guards have the mundane task of ensuring that everybody wear their building passes, they would have to patrol the building at regular interval, for the extremely unlikely and unidentifiable intruder. I suspect that some of them pass their time by blowing affectionate greetings to ladies who pass by the guard post.

Of course, we would dismiss this as a sign of friendliness, but when you go past the same security post for the better part of the year, and have not managed to have any of the security personnel speak to you (and the other 50% of the working population in the same building), it is unnerving when I see how some of them make verbal advances on the ladies.

And the problem is simply not confined to personnel in the security services. I have witnessed how a cleaner in our building attempt to get into the same lift as one of my lady colleague, even when he is pushing a cart-load of cleaning equipment, and obviously wouldn’t fit the two of them in the same lift comfortably. She gestured to me for help, and I stopped the guy in time for the lift door to close.

That is the price we pay for having a relatively safe society. Therefore, I propose that we set up an enterprise to manage and balance the crime rate in Singapore, by committing crimes at regular intervals, to keep all personnel on a high enough alert that nobody would have the time to pursue passionate interests.

Who knows? The next lady you blow a kiss to might turn out to be a skilled assassin, and that lift trip you take would be the adventure of your life. Can you even imagine the spin-off industry this would create?

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