Team Orientation

This is a video presentation room. One such video is the development of the concept of the Home Team and the crucial roles the Home Team Department members and NSmen play in maintaining Singapore’s stability and security.

Team Operations – Upholding Law and Keeping Order

The Home Team upholds law and order on many fronts, Keeping crime rates low, enforcing tough anti drug laws, maintaining a high level of vigilance at the border control, keeping safe custody of and rehabilitating law offenders and protecting our nation’s sovereignty. Operations Ferret and Oriole were successful “joint operations” conducted in the early years before the Home Team concept was formalised. Both were examples of Home Team Agencies rectifying problems appropriately and effectively. It further reinforces the importance of proper dispensing of justice and professionalism, in securing Singapore by the Home Team.

Team Operations – Responding to Civil Emergencies

Singapore is lucky that we are spared most natural calamities which afflict the region. But disaster sometimes strike because of human error or sheer misfortune, and we look to the Home Team to respond with precision planning and daring execution. The featured Hotel New World and Nicoll Highway collapse incidents exemplify not just the spirit of heroism displayed by our emergency workers and ordinary Singaporeans alike, but also the importance of contingency planning involving multiple agencies and joint exercises.

Team Operations – Countering Terrorism

The Home Team fights terrorism on multiple fronts: apprehending those who engage in terrorist related activities, winning the hearts and minds of individuals through open ideological dialogue and discussion, engaging the community in counter-terrorism initiatives and enhancing the role of the private security sector. Using the Laju incident and the disruption of terrorist plots following the arrests of JI members, this feature illustrates the measures against terrorist threats. Aimed at preventing external influences from dividing our community, these measures ultimately help to maintain homefront security.

Team Work – Managing National Crisis

Singapore, like many other countries around the world, experienced the devastating effects of the SARS virus in 2003. The epidemic resulted in a full-scale crisis spanning a few continents. Despite the swiftness in our operational response to the crisis and the medical precautions taken by every front-line staff, the lives of some of our very courageous medical personnel were lost while fighting the dreaded disease. While the Ministry of Health tackled the SARS crisis on the medical front, the Home Team Departments responded collectively and took the lead in all aspects of homefront security and safety – enhancing its border control measures, enforcing quarantine orders and gearing up its prisons laundry industry to cope with the significant increase of soiled hospital linen. Beyond SARS, Singaporeans can expect the Home Team to work as cohesively and resolutely with other government agencies to tackle any other forms of national crisis that should confront Singapore again in the future.