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Area:
17
Month of Project Execution:
May onwards
Year:
2021
Stage 1 & 2 (Empathise and Define):
Identification of Security/Crime Awareness Issues
Target Community Audience:
Identified Issue(s):
Why identified security/crime awareness issue is important to the community:
Members of public, friends outside school, family members, relatives
Social media impersonation scam
There is an increasing number of people committing impersonation scams in the society along with people who fall victim to these scams, especially when almost everyone owns a personal hand-phone.
Stage 3 (Ideate):
Setting Our Goals
Our three objectives we want to achieve:
On our part, we need to be better informed about the latest issues and help spread awareness.
To share about some types of scams and to spread the awareness amongst the members of public, who might fall victim to these types of scams, especially social media impersonation scam.
To get members of public to sign up the Community Alert Service (CAS) subscription so that they can access anti-scam information provided by the police in order to equip the general public with better awareness and knowledge on how they can prevent falling victim to possible scams, and also to keep them abreast of types of scams which are quickly rising in number of cases in recent times.
Working Partners: Jurong Police Division
Stage 4 (Prototype):
Developing Our Plan
Planned Action
What scams we are discussing about
research on various types of scams
research on scams relevant to general public or target audience
select one type of scam
impersonation scam, etc
does the scam have enough formation to be put into to spread more awareness on it?
Persons-in-Charge
CPL Kandra Kuek, CPL Dimas, CPL Meenakshi, CPL Khairul, CPL Nur Fitri
Date Completed
16/07/2021
Planned Action
Scam information to collect to input into the message
research on various types of scams
research on scams relevant to general public or target audience
select one type of scam
gather main bulk of information
select specific points about the scam and how to reduce the risk of falling victim to those scams
what do we want to tell the public about the scam
why do we want to input this information
Persons-in-Charge
CPL Wu Yushan, CPL Cheryl Tan, CPL Lekshana, CPL Dakpa, CPL M Nazrul
Date Completed
16/07/2021
Planned Action
Message
check for vocabulary errors and spelling errors
ensure message is engaging, interesting and captures attention of intended reader or audience
Persons-in-Charge
CPL Wu Yushan, CPL Ananthaa, CPL Delicia, CPL Erin Tan, CPL Sri, CPL Jeelani, CPL Meenakshi, CPL Cheryl
Date Completed
16/07/2021
Planned Action
Recruitment of Community Alert Service (CAS) Subscription
Persons-in-Charge
All
Date Completed
30/07/2021
Planned Action
Reflection
gather reflections from team members and feedback from audience and readers
Persons-in-Charge
CPL Nur Shazrizam, CPL Delicia Tan, CPL Kandra
Date Completed
30/07/2021
Stage 5 (Test and Evaluate):
Reviewing Our Project
Collated Reflections/Feedback from Cadets
What are the most important things we have learnt?
We have learnt that some people who we meet on the internet who are not living in our country may not be who they say they are. If our friends or anyone close to us ask about our personal information and do not specify their reasons it may be someone else who might have already hacked their social media accounts. Hackers and scammers can impersonate our loved ones and friends to deceive us to get the information they wanted from us to use it wrongfully.
What were some challenges we faced, and how did we overcome them?
Finding the right information needed and getting the team to work together as we do not have that much time together and are at different places at different times.
However, because of this current pandemic and the restrictions placed on us in school and in general public areas, our intended sharing with the general public was severely affected and we had to re-strategise our method of approach and sharing of our information. Due to the safe management measures, we were not able to do group work for our project in order to move efficiently. We had to do things on our own and keep ourselves on task and on the pace as others.
What NPCC values have we demonstrated during this project?
How else can we demonstrate these values in our lives?
We demonstrated the value of resourcefulness in researching for and sourcing out for information from credible websites suitable for the purpose of our project.
We can provide useful and authentic resources like news from official websites and papers to the people around us to get the correct information to be disseminated to the general public or to our target audience.
Collated Feedback from Audience
To what extent do you agree with the following statements?
I can fully understand what the cadet(s) told me about the crime prevention message(s).
The crime prevention message(s) shared is very relevant.
The crime prevention message(s) shared is very useful.
I am very willing to share the crime prevention message(s) with my friends and family.
Average Scores
4.3/5
4.5/5
4.4/5
4.4/5
Total Score: 17.6/20
Cadet Interaction Activity
Doing our research and conceptualisation of our visuals on our PDLP devices in our CCA sessions and Family Time (for CCAs).
CPL Shazrizam was working as part of the team to do research. We had to do it on our personal devices even as a group, to comply with the pandemic SMMs that we needed to follow.
We chose to work on the Google document platform so that we all could work on the same document and also met up through Zoom conferences to discuss in the pandemic situation.
CPL Dimas sharing information about impersonation scam with his brother.
Getting a parent to give feedback score.
CPL Lekshana sharing information about impersonation scam with her mother.
CPL Delicia sharing information about impersonation scam with her mother.
CPL Ananthaa sharing information about impersonation scam with his mother.
Cadets' Reflections
CPL Meenakshi
PYA was a project that created a big awareness between me and my friends and family. Due to COVID 19 situation we as cadets were not able to interact with the community and talked to them. But to make sure that we did our part, we sent messages and created greater awareness through a highly-accessible communication platform, which is WhatsApp. I had joined NPCC only last year, one year after my peers. In the year before last year, I was in the Girl Guides in another secondary school. In my opinion, both CCAs have different values, tasks, and focus. Step by step, I came to know what being in NPCC is about and through this PYA project task, I had an opportunity to experience and get to know what being an NPCC cadet is about and what is the main focus of this CCA. So basically, I got into a group and planned what Crime Prevention information we can share and we choose to send to our friends and family members. We thought about the important messages we need to tell them and how to explain to them why this crime prevention is so important.
The key challenges we faced were how to explain to them the pieces of information, how to make them understand the intention of the information. Also, another difficulty was for us as cadets, we were given groups to do the PYA document. We didn’t get many opportunities to gather together as a group to actually work on it. We had only 1 time to do the project face-to-face. This was one of the difficulties we faced. Lastly, my friends and family members were worried as the form asked for personal information. It was a hard time to convince and tell them that it’s for educational purposes and that those personal information would be kept confidential.
Lastly, I really think that this project would be far more effective if we are not facing the pandemic and its restrictions and when we can have more face-to-face discussion times.
CPL Kandra Kuek Si Ying
PYA was a project that required a rather large amount of confidence. We needed to be confident in the information that we gathered, we needed to be confident of our ideas- whether or not the information of the scam is deemed suitable, whether or not the amount of the information is enough to carry the message through or how we are going to approach the public with this set of information and how are we supposed to explain to them our objectives- and we needed to be able to carry out this process from the planning stage all the way to the execution stage.
This project allowed my team and me to firm up our ideas and also allowed us to better communicate with people who lack awareness about these scams. It allowed everyone to realise that looking at the fellow NPC officers doing these and getting rejected in the public, we understand why it is so hard to do this and that we needed to find a way to do it with maximum success rate. The challenges we experienced were not new, but the way we approached it was the new part.
Our first challenge was not being able to gather everyone together in the same place to plan what we were going to do due to COVID restrictions and the new school measures that were put in place. We tried the online method but most of the members were busy and we had a lot of lag-time making it difficult to discuss and collaborate at the same time. But in the end we were able to find a suitable time to gather everyone while adhering to all the rules.
Another difficulty was trying to ascertain the information to select and to include in our potential sharing. We gathered all the information we wanted to put in and only took out the key points, the reading points we clustered together to make a smaller group of information.
What could be improved was the level of preparedness of the members in the team. We could have prepared more specifically with regard to who to do which task and to determine the deadline to complete the project. It was only when everyone came together that we could get together to effectively evaluate and put in place all the necessary edits and carry out the tasks smoothly and well.
Beneficiary's Feedback
Madam Sharon Chua
Administrative Personnel in her 50's
"I have learnt about the various ways that we can ensure that we do not end up as victims of impersonation scams, some of which I didn’t know I should abide by. I believe this project will do good to the community as I have seen news of countless cases of scams online and I feel that this is the result of the lack of awareness of the preventive measure we can take to stop this crime. So this project that was carried out is sure to benefit many. The information that I have received has been extremely useful as I am not really a tech-savvy person so I am not familiar with social media platforms such as facebook. Now that I know how to prevent scams from happening to myself, I am able to use online platforms with ease without the fear of getting scammed."
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