They could have just lobbed a few tear gas grenades... very efficient at crowd dispersion.
How expensive can one of those be? Surely they're cheaper than the repair bill for the destroyed vehicles.
And do you really need to write a report for using batons and tear gas? Even if so, how hard can writing a standard template report be? You're not writing a novel or a thesis... you're simply describing the incident with factual details. It's a brain-dead task. You probably won't need to write more than 2 A4 sheets.
Our poodles are really nincompoops. I bet they got complacent when Wong Kan Seng - an utterly unqualified and talentless man - was the Home Affairs Minister. Stop boasting about your little triumphs with horrible acting on CrimeWatch and just focus on doing your bloody job.
Besides the riot at Little India, there was also a robbery at the same time...
taxpayers were robbed.