Updating SCDF Emergency Handbook to Include Response Recommendations on Handling Unruly or Destructive Crowds

Ms Tan Su Shan asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs whether the SCDF Emergency Handbook will be updated to include response recommendations to large crowds turning unruly or destructive.

Mr Teo Chee Hean: The Civil Defence Emergency Handbook contains advisories that are related to Emergency Preparedness and National Emergencies, and covers key topics, such as first aid, fire safety, peacetime and war-time emergencies and terrorist threats. The Handbook, in its seventh edition, is regularly reviewed and updated periodically.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Singapore Police Force will look into this suggestion with a view to include appropriate advisories in the next edition of the Handbook for members of the public who are at locations where there are large crowds, or if they encounter situations of unruly crowd behaviour.