Kind Traffic Police officer camps for hours on PIE to shield motorcyclists fixing bike

They don't just summon people okay.

Mandy How | June 24, 2017, 06:36 PM

The sight of a Traffic Police officer usually leaves us in a state of mild panic, even if we haven't actually done anything wrong (ahem).

But one ‎Muhammad Fithri‎ encountered a station inspector whose actions, for all intents and purposes, could singlehandedly change our impression of them radically.

Here's his story, which he posted on the Singapore Police Force's Facebook page — one of precious few out of thousands of seriously mundane and irrelevant nonsense:

Fithri was riding his scooter home from work on Friday, June 23, around 6.30pm.

Just as he was taking the Bukit Batok East exit on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE), he saw another rider struggling to start his bike on the road shoulder.

The rider turned out to be a Malaysian heading home from Changi to Johor Bahru for the Hari Raya weekend, and his throttle cable had snapped.

Fithri brought him to the nearest workshop to purchase the needed parts and sent the rider back to fix his bike, as he was afraid he couldn't converse in English.

Shortly after, writes Fithri, a station inspector pulled up with his patrol car, asking if everything was alright and if they needed Expressway Monitoring and Advisory System (EMAS) to tow the motorbike.

Another patrol car arrived at the scene not long after and tried to render assistance, but had to leave around 7.14pm to attend to another case. They reminded Fithri to break his fast before leaving.

Throughout, though, the station inspector stayed with Fithri and the rider, even as the sky turned dark. The officer even used his patrol car's hazard lights to alert drivers of the bikers' presence on the road shoulder.

And if all that help wasn't enough, the station inspector waited with them until the Malaysian rider finished fixing his cable, and still escorted them back onto the expressway for safety, as traffic was rather heavy.

To his regret, Fithri says he forgot to ask the kind Samaritan for his name, but managed to capture the license plate of the patrol car:

Source: Singapore Police Force Facebook

And he now hopes the Singapore Police Force can identify his yet-identified hero.

Here is Fithri's post in full:

 

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