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Ministry of Home Affairs to hold biggest recruitment drive
Channel NewsAsia - Friday, December 19
SINGAPORE : Despite the economic downturn, Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will be holding its biggest recruitment drive this weekend to recruit more staff and boost its strength.
There are about 1,050 job vacancies, with the largest numbers in the Singapore Police Force and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA).
The police force is looking to add some 470 new officers to its current strength of over 6,000.
Apart from improving manpower capabilities and security standards, the larger number would also mean easing the burden of present staff who are feeling overstretched and stressed — as findings of an ongoing human factor study, which was mentioned in Parliament in August, have shown.
"Especially since 2001, after 9/11, police have taken a much stronger focus on security... And with Singapore taking on more events, that is added workload for our police, so we are getting more staffing to do this work as well," said Jerry See, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Singapore Police Force.
And should there be overwhelming response, the police force is ready to increase the intake by up to a further 200.
Meanwhile, the ICA wants to recruit some 300 junior and 30 senior officers.
"New recruits will be deployed to land checkpoints — Woodlands and Tuas — to increase the manning levels at these land checkpoints... in response to recent feedback from the public," said Pravina Jit, director of Manpower Division, ICA.
The MHA is targeting school—leavers with at least secondary school qualifications, and those retrenched.
Even though entry requirements remain stringent, MHA believes various schemes like retention bonus for junior officers and sign—on incentive for senior officers will continue to be a draw and will be enough to keep successful job seekers in the force.
"We recognise that there might be people who sign up now but may leave when the economy picks up. But we are confident that after they have spent some time with the Home Team, they will realise that the Home Team is an organisation that emphasises training and development, and will provide them a full and stable career," said Koh Siong Ling, senior director of the Human Resource Department, Ministry of Home Affairs.
In fact, such incentive schemes were deemed to be one of the main reasons in maintaining the low attrition rate of 3—5% across the Home Team departments in previous years.
Other vacancies include 70 openings as prison officers with the Singapore Prisons Service, 60 openings as narcotics officers with Central Narcotics Bureau, 20 fire and rescue specialists with the Singapore Civil Defence Force and 100 Senior Home Team Uniformed Officers.
The two—day recruitment drive will be held at VivoCity this weekend December 20— 21 from 10am to 7pm.
Visitors will be able to get more job insights from career counsellors and undergo an on—site job selection.
As MHA will be partnering with the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), job seekers who do not meet the Home Team’s requirements can find other job placement and skills upgrading opportunities in other sectors.
The public can also catch displays of the Home Team’s various operational capabilities and equipment such as the SCDF’s Firebike and Red Rhino. — CNA /ls
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