MM Lee is right! Sinkies is hopeless, this kind of small thing also complaint

[RonRon]

I WISH to relate the treatment I received at the hands of Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at Woodlands Checkpoint. On Dec 18, at 7.45pm, I was returning to Singapore via the checkpoint. As usual, I scanned my biometric passport at the Immigration Automated Clearance System. However, it was unable to scan my thumbprint (it is not the first time this has happened).

A female ICA officer approached me and asked me to try the other machines. I tried but still it would not work. She opened the flip gate for me to go to the counter where another officer was sitting inside. She scanned my passport at the computer, then asked me to put my thumb on another small machine to scan. She told me my thumbprint was still not clear and called a police officer to escort me to a detention room.

I really felt I was being treated like a common criminal. I waited at the detention room for half an hour with some foreigners.

I felt something was not right so I approached an inspector and asked him why I had been detained because my thumbprint was not clear. He looked up and asked me if I was Singaporean. I said I was and he immediately checked my passport and allowed me to leave.

Why did the officer at the counter in front of the flip gate not verify my passport instead of sending me to the detention room?

In the detention room, there was no coordination and I was just left waiting. It wasted my time and caused unnecessary stress to me and my family.

The authorities should have a better system in place to handle such technical problems. And people should be treated in a better way.

Alex Chan

 

[General Veers]

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Dec 29, 2009

Jailed for U-turn scheme role

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For abusing his position, senior specialist Mah Chin Phock, 54, was jailed for a year on Wednesday and ordered to pay a penalty of $900 on eight counts of corruption. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

AN IMMIGRATION officer received cash and loans from a coffee-shop owner for helping female Chinese nationals stay here longer after U-turn visits to Johor. This refers to the practice of foreigners here going to Malaysia for a short period and then re-entering Singapore so their social visit passes are extended for up to another month. For abusing his position, senior specialist Mah Chin Phock, 54, was jailed for a year on Wednesday and ordered to pay a penalty of $900 on eight counts of corruption. He pleaded guilty last week. Then, a district court heard that Mah met Chia Ngee Seng, 47, in 2006. The owner of Nee Seng Kopitiam in Geylang, had been providing U-turn services since 2000. From July 2007, Mah would inform Chia through coded text messages of the booth he would be manning at the Woodlands Checkpoint for the foreigners to be driven through. For this help, Chia loaned the officer $800 and also gave him $750 in cash. A sum of $650 had been returned, the court heard. Chia was jailed for 10 months in October.

 

[Char_Azn]

I think it is a valid complain. The ICA is men by screw ups. Just ask all the Yahoos who managed to get pass our borders, Mas Salamat, Richard Yoong, etc.

And let's not forget the Family who didn't get to catch their flight coz the mother said bomb 3 times, the 3rd time she was asked to say it.

 

[Watchman]

You are aready a crimminal by not driving !

 

[shelltox]

I WISH to relate the treatment I received at the hands of Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at Woodlands Checkpoint. On Dec 18, at 7.45pm, I was returning to Singapore via the checkpoint. As usual, I scanned my biometric passport at the Immigration Automated Clearance System. However, it was unable to scan my thumbprint (it is not the first time this has happened).

A female ICA officer approached me and asked me to try the other machines. I tried but still it would not work. She opened the flip gate for me to go to the counter where another officer was sitting inside. She scanned my passport at the computer, then asked me to put my thumb on another small machine to scan. She told me my thumbprint was still not clear and called a police officer to escort me to a detention room.

I really felt I was being treated like a common criminal. I waited at the detention room for half an hour with some foreigners.

I felt something was not right so I approached an inspector and asked him why I had been detained because my thumbprint was not clear. He looked up and asked me if I was Singaporean. I said I was and he immediately checked my passport and allowed me to leave.

Why did the officer at the counter in front of the flip gate not verify my passport instead of sending me to the detention room?

In the detention room, there was no coordination and I was just left waiting. It wasted my time and caused unnecessary stress to me and my family.

The authorities should have a better system in place to handle such technical problems. And people should be treated in a better way.

Alex Chan

He must had been very kuai lan to the ica officer

 

[scoobyhoo]

I WISH to relate the treatment I received at the hands of Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at Woodlands Checkpoint. On Dec 18, at 7.45pm, I was returning to Singapore via the checkpoint. As usual, I scanned my biometric passport at the Immigration Automated Clearance System. However, it was unable to scan my thumbprint (it is not the first time this has happened).

A female ICA officer approached me and asked me to try the other machines. I tried but still it would not work. She opened the flip gate for me to go to the counter where another officer was sitting inside. She scanned my passport at the computer, then asked me to put my thumb on another small machine to scan. She told me my thumbprint was still not clear and called a police officer to escort me to a detention room.

I really felt I was being treated like a common criminal. I waited at the detention room for half an hour with some foreigners.

I felt something was not right so I approached an inspector and asked him why I had been detained because my thumbprint was not clear. He looked up and asked me if I was Singaporean. I said I was and he immediately checked my passport and allowed me to leave.

Why did the officer at the counter in front of the flip gate not verify my passport instead of sending me to the detention room?

In the detention room, there was no coordination and I was just left waiting. It wasted my time and caused unnecessary stress to me and my family.

The authorities should have a better system in place to handle such technical problems. And people should be treated in a better way.

Alex Chan

ha ha, you must be looked like a criminal.