Address:18 Condada Ave Park Holme, SA 5043

ANNA LEE LI MEI

Address:18 Condada Ave Park Holme, SA 5043

Contact: 0420764013

Email :

Date of Birth: 27 June 1975

Place of Birth: Singapore

Citizenship: Singaporean (with Australian Permanent Resident Visa Status)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated ex-police officer with16 years in law enforcement and community engagement. Desires a role insocial orhumanitarian sector.Offers a comprehensive academic and work background in social sciences, as well as strong interpersonal, organizational and administrative skills.

SKILLS & TRAINING

• Computer Skills –

Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel

• Research Skills –

Academic and Policy research from various sources

• Interpersonal Skills –

Community Engagement, trained in Intercultural/Interfaith Facilitation

• Languages –

English (spoken and written)

Mandarin and Hainanese Dialect (spoken)

Bahasa Indonesia (very basic spoken)

• Humanitarian Courses -

12 - 18 May 2014 - completed a Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues from York University, Toronto Canada.

12 – 14 Nov 2014 – completed the International Humanitarian Action Training Course with Red Cross Australia in Melbourne, Australia.

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE (SPF) : 1998 - 2014

Head Planning Organisation Development, Police Coast Guard : Sept 2012 – Nov 2014

• Managed a branch within the Police Coast Guard (PCG) responsible for strategic and corporate planning, foreign relations and external liaison and corporate and internal communications.
• Helped oversee the PCG’s resources in terms of budget, headcount and fulfilment of key performance indicators.
• In charge of visits from both local and foreign agencies and PCG’s bilateral relations with other coast guard agencies in the region and overseas.
• Disseminates information from external units or Headquarters and within PCG through regular email updates, unit newsletters and other relevant communication modes.

Head of Operations Training, Bedok Police Division : Jan 2010 – Aug 2011

• Responsible for overseeing the day to day policing and co-ordination of police operations including on-scene management of major cases within Bedok Police Division in Eastern Singapore.
• Managed 170 officers under the Operations and Training Branch with 8 sub-units concerned with the Division’s training, operations and enforcement activities like the Divisional Traffic Patrol Unit, Licensing, Crime Control Unit, the Divisional Lock Up and Operations Room, the Crime Prevention Office, the Training Branch and two staff branches to ensure the operational needs of frontline officers were met.
• Led in deployment of operations, contingency and security planning of large scale national and international events that the Division undertakes like the National Day Parade, Singapore Airshow and the Youth Olympic Games etc.
• Besides management of staff, also have experience in liaison with external units and agencies within and outside the SPF.

Senior Assistant Director, Ministry of Home Affairs : Dec 2007 – Jan 2010

• Responsible for the staffing of policy at a national level involving contingency planning and civil-military collaboration towards homeland security.
• Worked with the other Home Team and Defence agencies towards the crafting of plans and policy implementation to ensure the security and safety of Singapore.

Commanding Officer, Changi Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) : Oct 2005 – Dec 2007

• Responsible for the policing needs under the jurisdiction of Changi NPC, covering the coastal areas in Eastern Singapore with heartland neighbourhoods, ferry terminals, and peripheral of key installations like the Changi International Airport and Changi Naval Base.
• Managed and provided strategic guidance to close to 100 officers to tackle issues like crime control, security and community engagement.
• Worked with residents and community stakeholders towards ensuring the safety and security needs of the community are met.

Operations Officer, Tampines Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) : Mar 2004 – Oct 2005

• Oversaw daily operations of Tampines NPC in terms of community policing, crime control, and security of the community in Tampines, a suburb in Eastern Singapore.
• Planned and conducted operations towards crime control and enforcement.
• Assists the Commanding Officer to work with residents and stakeholders towards issues concerning the community especially in crime prevention and detection through the implementation of Community Safety and Security Projects (CSSPs).

Operations Officer, Operations Department, Police Headquarters : Oct 2000 – Mar 2004

• Responsible for staffing operations policy to support decision making by higher management, particularly in the area of frontline policing.
• Handled major operational projects like the planning and implementation of the Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) system.

Investigation Officer, Ang Mo Kio Police Division : Jul 1999 – Oct 2000

• Investigated criminal and routine cases in Northern Singapore within the jurisdiction of Ang Mo Kio Police Division.
• The investigation processes requires working with other government and private agencies as well as members of the public. Some examples of cases handled include Unnatural Deaths, Outrage of Modesty and Theft.

CAREER HISTORY WITH THE SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

7 Sept 1998Appointed Inspector of Police (1)

1 Aug 2001Emplacement to Assistant Superintendent of Police (1)

1 Jul 2003Promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Police (2)

1 Jun 2005Promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Police (1)

1 Jun 2007Promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Police (2)

1 Jun 2010Promoted to Superintendent of Police

1 Jun 2013Promoted to Superintendent of Police (1A)

OTHER EMPLOYMENT :

School Clerk - Marymount Convent School : Nov – Dec 1991

• Duties include data entry, office administration, filing and call taking and assisting teaching staff and students and parents in various issues.

Relief Teaching - Catholic Junior College : Jan – Mar 1994

• Taught History and General Paper after ‘A’ levels before entry into University.
• Duties also included dealing with student’s academic and personal issues as well as parents’ concerns.

Adhoc Relief Teaching : Mar 1994 – Dec 1997

Did Adhoc Relief Teaching in English and History at several other secondary schools before entering university and during university term breaks. Duties includes teaching and dealing with student’s academic and personal issues as well as parents.

NO PAY LEAVE SABBATICAL : 2011 - 2012

Took a mid-career sabbatical on no pay leave and pursued a Master of Studies degree at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia,undertaking courses in Anthropology, Development and Ethics.Among the courses taken are ANTH8009 Development in Practice and ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies which are courses about development aid, the issues involved and program design and evaluation.

PUBLICATIONS

• Labels as Stigma : A Study of Women Ex-Prisoners (Undergraduate Honours Thesis)
• Offenders as Victims - Coping with Non-Physical Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System (Postgraduate ANIP Research Project with Australian Institute of Criminology)

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS AND INTERESTS

Singapore

• Able to balance demanding work with volunteering at the Communicable Disease Centre in Tan Tock Seng Hospital working with patients with HIV/AIDS.
• Also involved in an inter-faith programme called Explorations into Faith which organises interfaith dialogues.

Australia

• Represented the ANU in the Hult Global Case Challenge 2012, an annual competition where the world’s universities compete to come up with innovative solutions to alleviate global poverty. The team managed to enter one of the regional finals held in Dubai.
• Selected for the Australian National Internship Programme, a prestigious programme in the ANU where students learn academic rigour and research skills through undertaking an applied research project with organisations ranging from government and public service agencies, non-government agencies and the parliament. I worked in the Australian Institute of Criminology on a project about offenders with non-physical disabilities and their interface with the Criminal Justice System.

CHARACTER REFEREES IN AUSTRALIA

a)Nalaka Nanayakkara

SAP Data & Reporting Specialist, Serco

0435366465

80, King William Street, Adelaide 5000 (office)

b)Laura Beacroft

Independent Researcher and Lawyer, Visiting Fellow at ANU

0406 378 013

36 Tyson St, Ainslie, ACT 2602

c)Farid Hamid

Diversity Facilitator at Ithaca Pte Ltd

0468 322 254

219 Aubrey’s Road, Magpie, VIC 3352

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