Situated along Eu Tong Sen Street are a cluster of old blue buildings surrounded by fence. Built some 30 to 40 years ago, this is where the Singapore Police Force’s (SPF) former Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters were situated.
After their new headquarters were established at the nearby Cantonment Road, CID shifted away from here and it was handed over to the Police Licensing Division. The Licensing Division, too, has moved to Cantonment Road shortly after and this site has been left vacant since 1996.
In the five-storey main building, the first level was perhaps the most famous with its 13 cell rooms that had countless of hardcore criminals locked up during interrogations. Throughout the years, there are persisting rumours that the cell rooms are haunted due to past suicides of the criminals.
It was also reported that in 1990, a police officer shot himself inside the toilet on the third floor.
Today, the first level of the main block of the former headquarters, which are owned by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), is opened to the public and immediately attracts interest from various organisations. Some are keen to hold events like Halloween parties, while others intend to organise exploring trips in this forgotten place of more than one decade.
Published: 27 November 2010
hi,i’ve been there today. it’s quite fun going in there and i enjoyed it a lot with 5 other friends. is there any other cases of police officers commiting suicide?
there was only one case (ie the 1990 case) reported in the media..
other cases (criminals or officers) may have gone unreported…
I was recently in Singapore and walked past this building, I had no idea what it was but felt a strange sense of intruige. Thankyou for posting this information about it, I wish I had gone in to see it now but I will definately return and have a look.
hi.. is the area being fenced? is it a restriction building?
Yes, public access is restricted.
thank you=) Its so hard to find abandon buildings to explore nowadays. Without guards or CCTV.
There’s a building at Jervois Road abandoned for years. It was the former site of Singapore School for the Deaf.