Outsouce Traffic Police
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With recently implementation of the unmark car to spot reckless driver orchasr road etc.
I would like to bring up this for a long time.When we need the traffice police esp during Peak period.They are not there.
1)I'm had been driving for the seven yrs and cannot recall i see any TP during when we really need them To soothe the traffic jam.But will get to see them if you will to travel during non peak hrs from 12-4pm on major expressway.
2)Recently,i had observe more and more non passenger travling on both the extreme right lane and centre lane of the expressway,As they only travel at 60-70km p/hr.As such,they are causing the Jam, i saw in numerous situation whereby the the lorry distance between the front car is about 5-6 car different.And this is the common situation.
3)I had also observe a number of Cisco and police Bus and Van traveling on the centre lane,(Pls advise if this is legal.)If so,pls clean your own backyard first.)
4)nowaday,there is increase on driver love to on their high light. -
Why, I thought the answer is obvious.
If the costs of running traffic control and the car parking services, collections of certain types of payments and taxes as performed by outside companies are lower, such services should be outsourced to help Singaporeans in lowering costs. (or build up their medical or retirement funds)
The only services that should be retained by government should be in areas like national security, defence, judiciary and enforcements of sensitive laws and regulations.
Singaporeans will save billions if these various non-critical services are outsourced. Outsourced companies will help to render greater accountability and transparency not available at this moment.
It is already well proven Traffic Police only performs mostly routine and standardized services so they are very easy to outsource. Many traffic policemen are over-authoritative and give a poor image to citizens.
Cost savings are already proven when services previously performed by government or government-linked companies such as Singtel, Car Park, SIA and related Airport services are outsourced.
At this moment, all government and government-related services are at least 50 - 300 % higher than outside. There is a lack of accountability and transparency as well.
Had these non-critical services been privatized or corporatized, many services will continue to be very expensive.
What the Singtel, HDB, PSA and SIA have done are only the tips of the icebergs. Nearly all the PA, EDB, TDB, TC, and statutory board services can be outsourced to private companies to lower the costs of living and doing business in Singapore which are extremely by comparison with those performed by the private sector.
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Let me tell you what true outsourcing means. It means a company is willing to perform a certain function of their customer company for a fee. Normally a price divided by number of years to perform the service is agreed upon after negotiation between outsourcing company and the client.
Once the contract is inked, the outsourcing company will buy up a large portion of the customers assets in which the service is being outsourced and lease it back to the customer and charge a yearly fee including the profit percentage.
When this is in process the outsourcing company will do a "wall to wall" inventory for all the assets being taken over which may include entire buildings, vehicles etc ... and "in-scope" a number of the customers original employees who have been doing this function for years and years.
And these employees will now belong to the outsourcing company, they may have a contract with the new company stating that original benefits and whatnot be unchanged for 2 years normally.
Outsourcing companies earn roughly 15-25% for each deal, but they make even more after the 2nd or 3rd year as "cost goes down", depending on situations earlier in-scoped employees are highly likely to "participate" in other deals, aka "leveraging", it also means that 1 person starts doing 3-4 accounts in-order to justify his cost to the outsourcing company.
For this topic I have 2 questions
1) Do we want our traffic law enforcement to be coporatised by a private company?
2) How do you outsource "Honesty" to another company? -
tat is only one mode form of outsourcing...there are many many other models
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I have been in 3 companies which does IT outsourcing since 96, 1 is a local pioneer in outsourcing, other 2 are major international leaders . But all have the same concept.Originally posted by sgboy2004:tat is only one mode form of outsourcing...there are many many other models
There are other things like HR or finance outsourcing which are slowly becoming quite common place now.
I have also done something called "Master and Slave" outsourcing a few times which is still very popular in many local deals esp banks.
You said there are many models, whats the best model you think possible for traffic police. -
Did you guys watch Robocop?
In that show, all the police functions have been outsourced to a private company, OCP. The funny part was when a robber held up a doughnut shop which was filled will cops. All the cops pointed their guns at the robber and was about to make the arrest when... riiiinnnggg!!! 5 pm, time to knock off... And they all upped and left.
Maybe we'll have that in future...
citizen: help! help! I think theres a break in down the street!
Cop1: Its 5pm now. But dun worry, I have job pride and professionalism! I'll check it out first think tml morning! -
Side Track abit.
Have anyone here ever gotten a Summon from TP and try to fax in your particulars?
I tried a whole day without success.
I thought it was a bogus number or maybe they change but didn't update on the letter.
Guess what.
Apparently that fax machine receives thousands of faxes a day from ppl with summons doing the same thing.
That shows one thing. The TP's are really doing their job.
Think they more than cover up for the dropping COE prices. -
I would like to give my comment on 1 and 4..Originally posted by llboct:With recently implementation of the unmark car to spot reckless driver orchasr road etc.
I would like to bring up this for a long time.When we need the traffice police esp during Peak period.They are not there.
1)I'm had been driving for the seven yrs and cannot recall i see any TP during when we really need them To soothe the traffic jam.But will get to see them if you will to travel during non peak hrs from 12-4pm on major expressway.
2)Recently,i had observe more and more non passenger travling on both the extreme right lane and centre lane of the expressway,As they only travel at 60-70km p/hr.As such,they are causing the Jam, i saw in numerous situation whereby the the lorry distance between the front car is about 5-6 car different.And this is the common situation.
3)I had also observe a number of Cisco and police Bus and Van traveling on the centre lane,(Pls advise if this is legal.)If so,pls clean your own backyard first.)
4)nowaday,there is increase on driver love to on their high light.
From what I understand from a friend who is in the civil service there would be two deployment of TP at each Express way. May it be on two or four wheels there would be two atleast.
Therefore like you I also do not understand that reason for them to not be there(Jam) So what I would usually do when I am stuck in a Jam especially the causeway jam (Singapore to Malaysia)I would call the Toll free Traffic police line and report the traffic conditions to them, and they would send their officers there in a swift. PM me if you need the number.
I believe that a large population of the increase drivers driving on the roads with high headlights on are contributed by the HID drivers, they have super bright white lights which never fails to blind me..
Cheers..