{"id":24148,"date":"2025-12-29T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24148"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:53:35","slug":"man-locks-himself-in-room-for-2-hours-scdf-personnel-seen-rappelling-down-circuit-road-block-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24148","title":{"rendered":"Man locks himself in room for 2 hours, SCDF personnel seen rappelling down Circuit Road block, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 54-year-old man who locked himself in a HDB flat at Circuit Road on Saturday (Dec 27) afternoon was apprehended under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n<p>The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call for assistance at Block 50 Circuit Road at about 12.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers responding to the incident assessed that the man may pose a danger to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Special Operations Command and Crisis Negotiation Unit were then activated.<\/p>\n<p>The SCDF said it deployed a safety life air pack, and rescuers from the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart) were on standby as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>A video taken from the opposite block and seen by AsiaOne showed two Dart rescuers rappelling down from the unit above.<\/p>\n<p>At about 2.25pm, two hours after the call for help, the police managed to gain entry into the room and apprehended him. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese publication Shin Min Daily News reported that the front gate of the flat appeared to have been cut open during the operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"help\" style=\"background-color:#fff4de;padding:8px 10px\">\n<h3>SINGAPORE HELPLINES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Samaritans of Singapore: 1800-221-4444<\/li>\n<li>Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019<\/li>\n<li>Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Mental Health&#8217;s national mindline: 1771 (24 hours)\/ 6669-1771 (via WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li>Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928<\/li>\n<li>We Care Community Services: 3165-8017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[[nid:723839]]<\/p>\n<p>lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/man-locks-scdf-rappel-down-50-circuit-road-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man who locked himself in a HDB flat at Circuit Road on Saturday (Dec 27) afternoon was apprehended under the Mental Health Act&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}