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Friday, December 4, 2009

invading upon mr police's peace. ft SPF

Date of offence: 7 Nov 2009, 10.50 am
Place of offence: CHOA CHU KANG AVENUE 4

Offence(s)
YOU CHOW MINDY ARE CHARGED THAT YOU ON 7 NOVEMBER
2009 AT ABOUT 10.50 AM ALONG CHOA CHU KANG AVENUE 4
SINGAPORE, AND AT THE JUNCTION OF THE SAID ROAD FAILED
TO CONFORM TO THE SIGNALISED TRAFFIC SIGN WHILST MAKING
USE OF THE PEDEDSTRIAN CROSSING TO WIT BY CROSSING THE
SAID JUNCTION WHEN THE SIGNAL LIGHT WAS RED AND NOT IN YOUR
FAVOUR AN OFFENCE UNDER RULE 3(3) ROAD TRAFFIC (PEDESTRIAN
CROSSINGS) RULES AND PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTION 121(6) (b) OF
THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT CHAPTER 276.
You are being offered an opportunity to have the offence(s) compounded for
$20. We seek your co-operation in settling the payment promptly by the
due date stated below.

Please note that if we do not receive your payment by 10 Dec 2009, a Notice
to Attend Court may be issued to you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

HEAD
INVESTIGATION & VIOLATION REPORTS BRANCH
TRAFFIC POLICE DEPARTMENT

(The following extract is my justification/appeal to lower my summon in rebuttal to my
road penalty for jay walking. *please excuse me for my grammatical mistakes and
horrible sentence structures for at the time when I typed the letter, i was in a pretty
sticky and vexed state drowning in my sarcasm and was too agitated to vet it.)

Hi officer,
 
I am Mindy Chow, S9236942J and I have been charged with an offence under
some act.
 
On 7 November 2009 at about 10.52 am along the choa chu kang avenue 4
pedestrian crossing on both sides, had traffic police patrolling in
uniform, even on the side which I crossed from. Which brings me to my
queries: since they were just an arm’s length away from where I was, why
was I not stopped? Does this not become a trap made for people in a rush at
occassional times at random places? If our safety was really in concern, why
did the policeman watch me cross and get myself a ticket?
 
The second issue here is that there are no warnings around the traffic
lights. A simple poster on the bus stop or above the traffic button would
do the trick, to remind pedestrians of their safety that is. I understand
that The Straits Times publishes a warning to readers. So what about the
illiterate or the poor who do not subscribe to The Straits Times? On top
of that, readers who came across the article might only be more wary about
not jay-walking only when there are police patrolling. So now what,
jay-walking becomes a skill?
 
Finally I would like to reiterate my frustration to be the reckless
charging of offenses with the wrong objective which does not serve to
rectify the root of the problem. I sincerely hope that this is not an easy
way for this respected department to reap in revenue out of ignorant people
by silently watching them cross an empty road when the red light for the
cars has come on, and then punishing their pockets and after all that, not
rectifying the problem. I am thus asking of you the opportunity to have my
composition amount of twenty dollars reduced and I sincerely look forward
to a more efficient method being implemented to deter jay-walking, in this
fast-paced society that is.
 
You have my assurance that I would now be more deterred to jay-walk,
because of the considerations of my safety and most indefinitely of traffic
police. But this is with courtesy to this unfortunate encounter of mine.
What about the rest who escaped the traffic police unscathed because they
were more alert than I was? I personally feel that being caught by a police
itself is an experience memorable and traumatising enough. The composition
is secondary and most unecessary. Please take this humble letter into
consideration.
 
*Along with this email I have attached pictures of jay-walkers at the time
of my offense, but on December 2nd instead. (pictures were taken within
minutes)
(I forgot the yours faithfully part)

attachment:



(I didn't know which department to email it to, so I anyhow googled 
"SPF cck email" and they gave me this email address)

Dear Miss Chow
 
 
      I  refer to your email to Deputy Superintendent Hoo Poh Heng on 2 Dec
   2009.
 
      Please  be  informed  that  your  email has been referred to Traffic
   Police  for  action and response. If you have any queries on the matter,
   please  contact   Mr  Ian  Low,  Head  Service Quality of Traffic Police
   Department at DID: 6547 6361.
 
 
Yours faithfully
 
Mr Liew Yao Hui
Assistant Service Quality Officer
Jurong Police Division HQ
 







Hi Yao Hui,
 
      Pls assist to refer the below request to lower her summon as well as her
feedback on traffic-related matters to TP. Let me have a contact ref from
TP so that she could enquire about her feedback if she wants to. Thanks.
 
cc    OC TPU - fyip.
      Thomas - fyi in case your OC is on leave.
 
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----- Forwarded by Poh Heng HOO/SPF/SINGOV on 03/12/2009 09:50 AM -----








Dear Sir/Mdm
 
            Thank you for your email.
 
            This  is  an  interim  reply  and your appeal is receiving our
       attention. In the meantime, you need not comply with the expiry date
       stated  on  the  notice issued to you.  The Officer taking charge of
       your appeal will be replying to you in due course.
 
       Yours faithfully
 
       Chua Seok Kheng
       Corporate Support Officer