By Mabelle Yeo Hui Leng

The training programme arranged by the Singapore Police Force moved on to its next major segment―unarmed tactics. MediaCorp artistes Rui En, Andie Chen Bang Jun and Cavin Soh give their take on the day’s activities and share their learning points.

Popular and cheerful actress Rui En, who plays a hardworking officer in C.L.I.F. 2 (警徽 天职 II), was feeling equally satisfied by the end of the day’s training.

“I think I learnt a lot of things I wasn’t aware of. I always thought that as women, we are disadvantaged in terms of physical size. But the training and techniques taught me that it isn’t about how big or strong you are, it’s about how smart you are.”

Although unsure what might be applicable during the actual filming and upon the completion of the scripts, at the point of training with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) at HTA, actress Rui En still found the training extremely useful.

The unarmed training segment included methods to make successful arrests and bring down suspects from a strategic distance, and the effective use of handcuffs. Trainer Senior Staff Sergeant (SSSgt) Tan Kien Hwee generously shared various self-defence secrets such as the correct ways to do a grip neck-lock or defend oneself against an attack, or to press specific acupoints on a criminal’s neck to get him to comply.

“I’ve always wanted to learn self-defence. So, I am very pleased to go through today’s training,” the friendly actress continued. “I had thought it would be easier for the guys, but am pleasantly surprised.”

“All in all, the training has been a huge help. The preparation I do for normal roles is different. Because as civilians, we don’t really know how the SPF works, which is why we are doing this drama in the first place. This is something I have always been interested in. So, it’s been a learning process for me even though I have acted in Unriddle and other cop dramas. I get to understand the way the SPF works and I’m really happy about this.”

She also shared that her character in C.L.I.F. 2 will be a bit different from the other police roles she had done before. “She’s warmer. The other roles I did were hard, aggressive. This time, she’s softer, warmer, more firm, takes her job and the welfare of others very seriously too.”

After hours of arm-twisting moves, the cast members are taught how to use handcuffs in an arrest and make their suspects comply.

Filming for this second season is on-going and C.L.I.F. 2 debuts on 18 February 2013 on Channel 8, at 9 pm.

“The instructors are so cool. I just totally look up to them. They are heroes,” Rui En raved, as she went on to share her personal impression of Police officers in Singapore. “There was this one time when we were filming a scene for Poetic Justice. I was being chased with my on-screen boyfriend by a group of people holding bats. An unaware resident in a unit above our set saw us being chased and thinking we were in trouble, called the police; and the police arrived on the scene within a few minutes! Such heroes! I felt so reassured that they are so efficient!”

The cast at Home Team Academy chills with the hardworking, dedicated people behind the sequel’s production.

C.L.I.F 2 警徽天职 2 debuts 18 February 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Home Team Singapore

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