SINGAPORE – Right to the end of his life, retired police officer Jagjit Singh Sundar Singh did not want the people around him to worry.
Despite his distinguished career, during which he rose to the high rank of deputy commissioner of police (operations) and coordinated operations in response to the Singapore Airlines Flight SQ117 hijacking in 1991, Singh, who died on Oct 8, did not like to talk about his work.
His son, Daljit Ghoshal, 56, told The Straits Times on Oct 9 that his father was a humble man.
“He was always gentle, and he did not talk much about what he did. He was not somebody who liked to show (off). He was a quiet man,” said Ghoshal.
Singh, 86, died on Oct 8 and leaves two sons and a wife. He was hospitalised in September with pneumonia.
“It went away, came back, went away, came back, and then he got weaker and weaker and just couldn’t fight it… his heart had weakened due to the narrowing of one of his valves, which was causing a problem with oxygen flow,” Ghoshal added.
A junior officer, who had served under Singh at Kandang Kerbau Police Station near Tekka Market, said Singh’s heart was in the right place as a police officer.
Kalidass S.K.S., 75, said Singh, then an acting superintendent in the 1970s, was already thinking about community policing and how to improve the police force.
Many respected Singh because, even as deputy commissioner of police (operations), he would drive around at night to check on police officers from other divisions who were on duty.
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