Former Combined Operations Room Is Now Opened To Public

For the first time in its history, the British-built bomb proof Combined Operations Room will be opened to the public for three months as an exhibition.

Located at Pearl’s Hill Terrace, the one-storey building was once upon a time the nerve centre for the Singapore Police in which the 1956 Chinese Middle School riots were managed, and later on all of Singapore’s 999 calls answered. Operations ceased in 1988, with the Singapore Land Authority taking over the space as a storage facility in 2001.

The exhibition that will commence from October 20, 2015 (Tuesday) is a joint effort by the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Heritage Board and Singapore Police Force. It consists of eight refurbished rooms recreated based on the operational Combined Operations Room, with one of them being the Chief Police Staff Officer’s room, which has a large glass window overlooking a map room that had staff updating incidents across the island on a tote board and map in real time.

Members of the public will be able to sign up for tours of the exhibition by emailing fcor@mha.gov.sg or calling +65 9893 5140 to book the tour which will run from Tuesday till January 31, 2016. Tours will be conducted from Tuesday to Sunday, excluding public holidays, at 10am, 10.45am, 11.30am, 2pm, 2.45pm and 3.30pm.

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