The policeman's policeman: Policing is the only job top cop Ng Joo Hee has held and he relishes the challenges

Abstract

Midway through the first interview he has given since becoming Commissioner of Police, Mr Ng Joo Hee says: "Did I tell you that I never wanted to be policeman?" Then he lets on: "My first ambition was to be a chemical engineer, join an oil company, travel the world to look for oil and go on adventures, maybe to the Amazon or somewhere else." "The people are the police and the police are the people," he says, quoting Peel, before he describes his Community Policing System to put more police officers on the ground in neighbourhoods across Singapore.