CID HQ...The 13th Cells. (A CID's home for Gangsters, a kingdom of it's own)

The 13th Cells ( residents for gangsters before the 90's)
Spi members become " Ghosts actors "

The meeting time for the recce at Outram Park MRT Station was 11.30hrs. There were five of us including our Video-man. The gate door opened at 14.30hrs. We had lunch, and coffee. We proceed to the former CID Building. There were three blocks.

There were 13 locked up rooms in the CID," the Infamous 13th Cells" the "Residents for fighters from the fifties". Gangsters disappearing from the villages. The CID detectives created a kingdom of their own. The detectives were the law, the detention without going to court was home for gangster faithful to their gang. The detectives kingdom. The gangster another kingdom. The ruling party another kingdom, the opposite another kingdom. The citizens were the slaves caught in between the power struggles, worked like slaves to bring food to the tables to feed the hungry families, by working in the farms. The Cells the home to the famous gangsters, is the half the size of a HDB room.

No one had been to the CID before. Only those captured by detective ended in CID. No body wants to know how was life in CID.

I had a uncle, he was a top gangster in Ah Hood Road, he was called Ang Pow. In the 50's my uncle brought a topless spot car. He took us to the village shops, the shop owner asked him what he wanted and he gave the goods to him. He was different from other customers, he did not have to pay for the things he "brought". I asked my mother why big uncle got free things from every shop he went. I got scolded, she did not answered my question, but said I was not allowed to go out again with big uncle.

Gangsters those days did not had a long life. Punching and kicking was considered acceptable, but the detectives used candles to punish the gangsters. It was believe that candles with cursed done in the candles caused internal injuries to the gangsters. Anyone who stayed in CID got internal injuries, if they don't get treatment from Gong Fu master, they died young. My uncle died at a young age 30 plus.

Long after my uncle death, we were bullied by a neighbor. The news spread to one of his gang member. He visited us, and told my mother, he knew we were being bullied and came to us. Those days a gang member protect other members families as well. Brothers for life. Unlike the gangsters of today.

To be continued, ghosts from SPI Actors.,,.