Singapore’s Union of Security Employees (USE) said on Thursday that it “stands firmly behind” the security guards involved in a confrontation with a Hong Kong school principal in which he swore at them.
The secondary school principal, Lee Cheuk‑hing, who was on a trip to Singapore with a group of students, was seen arguing with the guards over a parking matter at SAFRA Jurong, a recreational club, in a video widely circulated on social media.
Lee has since tendered his resignation from San Wui Commercial Society Secondary School in Tuen Mun and apologised for his failure to “lead by example”.
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The school had earlier suspended him from his post, with the school’s manager saying: “Though he said he wanted to protect the students, his actions did not meet what the public expects of a school principal.”
Providing its account of the incident, USE said that a chartered tour bus carrying 34 students from Hong Kong had stopped on the public main road directly outside the gates of SAFRA Jurong, along unbroken double yellow lines, on May 22 at about 5.30pm.
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“The parked vehicle completely blocked the traffic entering SAFRA”, and as this timing coincided with peak childcare dismissal hours, it caused a severe traffic bottleneck and prevented parents from driving into the compound to pick up their children, the union said in a social media post.