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Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story Sep 22, 2008 It can be tricky being a bailiff Court bailiffs may well find themselves in delicate - or even dangerous - situations By Sujin Thomas WHEN Mr Mohd Hatta Abdul Razak, 40, pays a business call at people's homes, it is usually not the kind of business that is welcomed. He is a court bailiff of the Subordinate Courts who seizes items from people in debt. He is the one who shows up when a creditor, such as a bank, applies successfully to the courts for a writ of seizure and sale. He accompanies the creditor to the debtor's home or office to seize the items. If no settlement is made within seven days or if the court does not issue an order to stop proceedings, the seized items are auctioned off to make good the debt. The situations he finds himself in can be delicate or even dangerous. He recalls going to an HDB flat in Ang Mo Kio in the 1990s to look for a debtor who had defaulted on his rent. The man's wife climbed onto a window ledge and threatened to jump. He had shown up at the flat with an HDB representative and policemen to serve a writ of possession, an eviction order issued by the court. He said: 'We're trained to not only observe our debtors but also our surroundings. It happened very fast. Half of her body was already out of the window.' The police managed to pull her back into the flat. Mr Hatta said: 'I told the creditor, HDB, that it was in the best interest to call the execution off. The case didn't come back to me afterwards, so perhaps something was worked out.' The Subordinate Courts now has six full-time staff and another half dozen Certis Cisco officers to perform bailiff duties. On the job, they don navy blue vests bearing the court logo. Bailiffs identify items such as electrical appliances and furniture for seizure by pasting sticker seals with the courts' logo. Fixtures such as shelves and religious items are left alone. After 18 years on the job, the hardest part for Mr Hatta is having to deal with the family members of debtors, the majority of whom are HDB dwellers. 'They'll beg you. Sometimes, you'll find children crying because you are seizing their TV set. It's a shock for someone new to the job.' He started out at the Subordinate Courts in 1989 as a building maintenance officer. He held that job for all of nine months before being made a bailiff. Training back then was on the job. He followed a more senior bailiff, who guided him. Since 2004, bailiffs-in-training have attended a two-month course including a law theory test, a two-week field attachment and a mock-up test. Trainees include not just bailiff hopefuls but also solicitors who have been authorised by the court to perform the job. During the mock-up test conducted in a room on the second floor of the Subordinate Courts, trainees are pitted against 'debtors' to test their mediation skills. Head bailiff Abdul Ghani Majid, 58, who has about 20 years' experience, said this test weeds out those who 'react adversely', that is, those who lose their temper. Out in the field, difficult debtors are a reality. A female bailiff once received back injuries at the hands of a debtor brandishing a bicycle chain. Mr Hatta, who has three children, does not advertise what he does for a living to friends and family. 'I don't quite like the idea of them coming up to me when they are in trouble. I always ask them whether they want guidelines on how to settle their debts or how to escape. 'If they want to escape settling the debt, I'll tell them not to come to me.' [email protected] http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNew...ory_281272.html when the propaganda machine run this.. it cud well mean one thing only. akan datang at a flat near you. or it mike even b you/ me. ok.. at most jamban man sleep under bridge. more good years ahead!!!

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