during my time ...my officer always tell us to let them fight among themselves first before moving in
This was also what my PC always told me when I was rookie SC just out of PA. Whoever was fallen in the fight, we then cuff them hospital and let the IO investigate further. Resume patrol. Roger out.
last time theres many ah beng in the police force ..nowaday only nerdy ppl with " papers " ..join the force ..different era .
The Ram PC style I've also seen in my time, no kidding. As lockup SC, I've seen so many brought in beaten up bloodied and denied medical. They'd be further beaten up by the PC and AIO in lockup and interrogation room again until half dead half life and confessed to everything, including giving the names and addresses of their accomplices. Then would they be allowed hospital treatment. Most of them so intimidated that they daren't not complain to doctors that some of their injuries were inflicted by the police.
I myself only have a few weeks of patrol experience after passing out from PA but I've seen some real streetfights between PCs and streetsters. No shit. The streetsters were bloodied before revolver or even baton is out. The teenage gangs would be cowered just by the sight of blue uniform and greet us "sir."
I spent most of my NS as lockup SC. Fucking boring job but seen all kinds of things the regular PCs and AIOs did to accuseds. That was towards the end of the psycho era. I sometimes complained to my SI, why always lockup duty again? He said, you're very tall, the tallest in team, but you look different, don't have the street look. :(
Most of these psycho police were phased out, naturally eased out in the WKS era, as they were not interested in the new style of policing where they're not allowed to beat up people or arrest people at will. That's another extreme when police became softies service staff, write reports, shuffling papers.