LTA warns Crime Library

Streats Pg 8 - April 20 2006
Crime Library asked to remove flyers

Crime Library has recently been warned by the Land Transport Authority that they are no longer allowed to put up notices for missing people.

Over 80 cases out of 143 of missing people have been solved because of these notices and now that the LTA no longer allows the Crime Library to put up their notices, I really wonder what kind of hope distraught family members would have of finding their kins who have gone missing.

It has been reported that many people often tear away their notices and put up their own advertisments but the LTA does nothing about it. The LTA has even provided advertisment boards at selected MRT stations for the general public to post notices. However, when it comes to something important like finding a missing person, LTA has failed to deliver.

An LTA spokesman stated that the advertisments "mar the streetscape and causes damage to the street furniture". I believe that this can be easily addressed by providing a proper noticeboard at bus stops so that important notices like the ones from Crime Library can be put up. I believe that LTA has to get its priorities right, at the moment everything they say sounds really warped.