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Singapore Crimewatch 1986 Intro title screen(Full episodes from around 1986-1992 are completely lost)
Status: Lost
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Crimewatch is a Singaporean television series(not to be confused with Crimewatch UK) produced by the "Singapore Police Force" and the programme is broadcast on television by "MediaCrop TV Singapore".The documentary-drama focuses on how actual Police officers who had attended with a real case had done their part by also reconstructing the scenes in the shows.In older episodes,the programme may also promote and showcase the jobs or behind-the-scenes movements of Singapore police officers.Crime Watch’s modus operandi would typically comprise the following: (1) sourcing of crimes for featuring in the next episode; (2) scripting for filming; (3) filming on scene (no sets were used); (4) post-production work involving stitching, editing and sound editing; (5) internal reviewing; (6) re-editing work including narrating and sound-mixing; (7) external screen tests; (8) actual broadcasting on national TV; (9) manning the Crime Watch's hotline to receive and act upon tip-offs; and (10) collating data on viewership figures for the episode screened in different languages(for example,"神之以法"--Chinese-dubs)
The idea of Crime Watch was conceived when two unnamed senior police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department after learning of the successes of "Crimestoppers" in the United States and Canada and "Crime Watch"(警訊) in Hong Kong. These police-sponsored televisual productions were broadcasted on free-to-air public television networks in the respective countries with the aim of seeking public assistance in the solving of criminal cases with little or no leads. Buoyed by the popularity of these foreign programmes and needing to secure the help of the public in the prevention and solving of crimes, the leadership of the SPF actively pursued the option of starting a local variant of Crime Watch in Singapore.
The first few iterations of the 20-odd minutes docu-drama
focused exclusively on public appeal and crime prevention. Typically, a re construction of an unsolved case would be staged by a motley cast of former and currently-serving police officers supplemented by semi-professional actors supplied by Mediacorp, and this would be followed by an emotive appeal for eye-witnesses to contact the police non-emergency line with the assurance that all identities of tipsters would be kept strictly confidential. Crime prevention
segments featured basic crime prevention advisories.Such cases are:robbery in homes, theft of and from vehicles, snatch theft, outrage of modesty and housebreaking,the murder of an individual.These segments will consist of a
mixture of a short-length re-enactment of solved or unsolved crimes, advisories given by the on-screen presenter(Police officer and Host for the show), interviews with members of partner organisations on crime prevention,and presentation slides highlighting crime prevention mnemonics in bullet-point form.
The charge of indifference was levied against the population in the pilot episode of Crime Watch (Episode 1;1986).
A 20-year old Chinese out on a romantic date was abruptly, brutally and fatally physically assaulted by a group of youths at a public area next to the void deck of a public housing flat at a location called And Mio Kio in Singapore.Despite the occurrence of the crime at the coordinates of public and prime-time visuality, no witnesses had yet come forward to provide the police with workable leads on the case. This public passivity necessitated steps taken by the police to re-trace the footsteps of the victim on screen. The producers opted for a realistic reconstruction of the scenes leading up to the commission of crime, detailing with disturbing realism how a romantic landscape was fractured and transformed into a landscape of death in the space of a night. The re-enactment ended with a cut to a real-life interview with the victims’ grieving parents who emotively appeal on behalf of the police for eye-witnesses to come forward. The civic outrage at witnessing this public inaction subsequently translated to several calls to the police hotline following the
broadcast of the pilot, which eventually led to the arrests of the culprits. This episode provided not only a glimpse of the potential investigative successes of an extended run of Crime Watch,
but also provided a window of understanding to the authorities on the need for civic engagement. Additionally, it supplied the basic framework for the reconstruction of unsolved cases, which would be re-used for the remainder of the first phase of Crime Watch.
<Source:(Crimewatch 25th Anniversary Special) on MeWatch>
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Episode 3 of Crimewatch aired on 25 July 1987. It was a re-attachment of a case about a week before Christmas in 1985.The case was about a crime detective,Goh Ah Khia, who was fatally shot by Ah Huat (also known as Lim Keng Peng).The episode showed that two victims who had escaped from their residential unit when their tenant from downstairs,who was later found to be Ah Huat,had been drunk and turned aggressive towards the victims.After returning to their units,the victims found out that their handbag had gone missing and Ah Huat had driven off with his friend around nine o'clock. When the police approached a suspicious individual who was running away,Detective Goh Ah Khia was fatally shot and soon passed away.After an island-wide search for Ah Huat's whereabouts,the police received a tip-off and tracked down Ah Huat at a coffee shop.Ah Huat did not cooperate and took out his gun.Due to the police quick response,Ah Huat was shot to death and was brought to justice.
Ah Huat had also robbed and shot a restaurant owner before Detective Goh Ah Khia had passed away.
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From 1989 onwards, CrimeWatch began to spot a new third segment: ‘Police in Action’. This would feature re-enactments of crimes successfully solved by the police, to demonstrate police professionalism at work. The production process would be nearly identical to the unsolved crimes segment, featuring police officers as part of the cast. However, a notable difference was that officers were now mostly called to play themselves on screen since the depiction of successfully solved crimes was deemed to be beneficial to the morale of the investigators involved. Asking officers to play themselves was an act of recognition for their valued contributions to the force, and reduced the likelihood of misrepresentations of officers in action. This move towards securing the image of the police also came in the wake of concerns that the police were being portrayed as insufficiently robust law enforcers on Crime Watch. Within the new political-economic order, public imaging became crucial to corporatised state organs, and the police would be seen as the harbingers of institutionalised image management. (-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------)
Here are some additional scenes from 1986-1988:
Here are the intros for the Lost seasons from 1986-1992
# | Episode Title | Air Date | Status | Information Known/Description | Duration(Without promotional section) |
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1 | Crimewatch Ep1/Pilot | 25/11/1986 | Cilps exists | -Reenactment of Ank Mio Kio murder. -Public awareness of defending yourself when encountering a suspicious person in an enclosed area | |
2 | Crimewatch Ep2 | 06/12/1986 | Lost | ||
? | Crimewatch Ep3(Uncomformed1) | 03/04/1987?? | Cilps exists | -The reenactment on how police officers put an end to Ah Huat's case/Detective Goh's fatal shooting | |
? | Crimewatch Ep3(Uncomformed2) | 13/07/1987?? | Cilps exists | -The reenactment on how police officers put an end to Ah Huat's case/Detective Goh's fatal shooting | |
4 | Crimewatch Ep4 | Date Not recorded | Lost | ||
5 | Crimewatch Ep5 | Date Not recorded | Lost | ||
6 | Crimewatch Ep6 | 07/05/1988 | Lost | ||
7 | Crimewatch Ep7 | Date Not recorded | Lost | ||
8 | Crimewatch Ep8 | 26/11/1988 | Lost | ||
9 | Crimewatch Ep9(Uncomformed) | 01/04/1989 | Lost | ||
10 | Crimewatch Ep10 | Date Not recorded | Lost | ||
11 | Crimewatch Ep11 | 30/09/1989 | Lost | ||
12 | Crimewatch Ep12 | Date Never recorded | Lost | ||
13 | Crimewatch Ep13 | Date Never recorded | Lost | ||
14 | Crimewatch Ep14 | Date Never recorded | Lost | ||
15 | Crimewatch Ep15 | Date Never recorded | Lost | ||
16 | Crimewatch Ep16 | 01/12/1990 | Lost | ||
17 | Crimewatch Ep17 | 02/03/1991 | Lost | ||
18 | Crimewatch Ep18 (English) | 01/06/1991 | Lost | ||
18 | Crimewatch Ep18 (Chinese Dub) | 01/06/1991 | Found | ||
19 | Crimewatch Ep19 | 28/09/1991 | Lost | ||
20 | Crimewatch Ep20 | 07/12/1991 | Lost | ||
21 | Crimewatch Ep21 | 07/03/1992 | Lost | ||
22 | Crimewatch Ep22(Uncomformed) | 13/06/1992 | Lost | ||
23 | Crimewatch Ep23(Unconformed) | 12/09/1992 | Lost | ||
? | Crimewatch Ep?? | Around Sept to Nov1992 | Lost | ||
? | Crimewatch Ep?? | 07/11/1992 | Lost | ||
? | Crimewatch Ep?? | Uncomformed if any before 1993 | Unknown | (No information) |