Dedicated team to beat casino crime
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The Singapore Police Force have set up a unit called the Casino Crime Investigation Branch dedicated to combat offences that come under the Casino Control Act.
The unit comprises 30 officers, of which most have had some sort of related training overseas or locally.
This follows the announcement of the opening of the two Integrated Resorts - Resorts World Sentosa as well as Marina Bay Sands casinos.
At the launch of the new unit, its Head, Superintendent Michael Ang said the CCIB has been operational since July last year.
He added that it's too early to tell if there will be sydicated crimes as there has been no such indication from their current intelligence.
But, Mr Ang said the team is ready.
"We cannot say people won't try. There'll definitely be people who commit casino crimes and with that, we have to be ready. When it happens we can't say "oh, now that it's happened we'll send our officers for training". We have been planning, learning, methodically for the past five years to make sure that we are ready for it because we cannot just say, when it happens, let's deal with it. We have to be prepared."
So what are some of the common scams in casinos?
Mr Ang elaborates.
"The most common scam is basically people trying to do past-posting? It's a very simple scam whereby people crowd around a table where there're a lot of players. And in what you call a "Big Small" table, you can bet big or small, it's a fifty-fifty kind of game, and then when the result is known, when the dealer is basically opening the cover, they quickly place their bets."
Placing their bets last minute makes it easy for the gamblers to win.
CCIB is working with relevant authorities from Macau, Hong Kong as well as Las Vegas.--938Live
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it's funny how the police is trying soooo hard just to make themselves believe they are still useful...
They take it as additional casino secruty and those professional anti-cheating teams as air...