Career
As a government scholar, after his graduation from Oxford in 1976, he was invited to join the Singapore Police Force (SPF) after a short stint in the Singapore Armed Forces. He began his career in 1977 and has since held various appointments, including Director Strategic Planning in 1987, Police Chief of Staff in 1990, Director Criminal Investigation Department in 1991 and Deputy Commissioner of Police in 1995.
In July 1997, he was appointed Commissioner of the Singapore Police Force. Khoo held the post for 12 years and was succeeded by Ng Joo Hee on February 1, 2010, taking on a new post of Senior Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Read more about this topic: Khoo Boon Hui
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“I seemed intent on making it as difficult for myself as possible to pursue my “male” career goal. I not only procrastinated endlessly, submitting my medical school application at the very last minute, but continued to crave a conventional female role even as I moved ahead with my “male” pursuits.”
—Margaret S. Mahler (1897–1985)
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)