Security guards there to protect residents from intruders, not be the nanny to residents

I refer to the letter, 'No harm done if security guards were to inform maid's employer if she goes out during odd hours' (Online forum, March 6).

I cannot agree with the author of the letter in suggesting that security guards play informants when they notice any 'unusual movement of maids'. Security guards are there to protect the residents from intruders - they are not there to be the nanny to residents.

In this case, it is the maid who has made 'unusual movements'. Where then do we draw the line? What if an 18-year-old is seen coming home at 4am on a Sunday morning after being out with friends? Should security personnel inform his/her parents as well?

At the end of the day, we must all be responsible for ourselves. In order to grow into a First World country, we need to stop being a nanny state and start taking responsibility for our own actions.

You can be sure that after this fall, even if the employers do not make it more difficult for her to leave the premises in the wee hours of the morning, she would have learnt that being locked out is not worth it.

Alvin Sim Khim Woon

London, United Kingdom