Police Knowledge/Homefront Security Course.

Spent the whole of yesterday and today attending this course conducted by the an instructor from the training command of the Singapore Police Force and an ex-SCDF officer.

In my opinion, the Police Knowledge course had enough information to cover 3 badges instead of one. There were topics on the various departments of the SPF, the structure of the force and individual NPCs and what how a policeman would handle various types of accidents or crime scenes. All this on top of the law definitions and levels of police power about specific crimes or acts.

The PK course took a whole 1 and a 1/2 day. About 10hours? And the seats we were on were super cramped, leaving not much space for movement, and the chairs were straight-backed and rigid.

Maybe it's a form of training. To make us subjected to psychological torture. The feeling of being forced to sit straight without talking, sleeping or fidgeting too much is very very claustrophobic.

And worst of all, the PK test did not contain half as much stuff as we were taught. Most of the questions were on law, and you only needed basic knowledge and understanding of the law to answer the question. (Like, rioting is different from unlawful assembly cause rioting involves fighting and damage to property or life) No need to memorize the section and chapter or the act or whatever. And there wasn't a single question on the departments of the SPF? There wasn't much of a benchmark set between those who studied and those that did not. And I didn't study either... =D

Homefront Security was slightly better? Cause only 3hours lecture. Again, the questions were very vague. And I didn't really copy down notes either. There's no point copying everything? The point of copying is to memorise, so I just stared at the screen and tried to memorise everything after attempting to copy the first few slides. Yet I'm very confident I will at least pass cause I could answer every question.

But at least I learned some things from the HFS course too. Like Cyanoxide Chloride or Hydrogen Cyanide is a very chim way to say cyanide, or CK. And Chlorine is a choking agent. Or that anthrax comes in cutaneous, gastrointestinal forms instead of the usual breathing in one. Maybe this will all come useful in real life when I er...do stuff.