Free entry, a free sling bag and a tug-of-war with a police dog: the Home Team Festival is back at Suntec for three days only, and the next one is three years away. From 20 to 22 November 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs takes over Suntec Convention Centre with what it bills as the largest public showcase of the Home Team, themed "Together, We are #HomeTeamHeroes". Police, SCDF, ICA, CNB, prisons and the HTX tech agency all set up hands-on booths, and admission costs nothing.
> Quick view: 20 to 22 Nov 2026 · Suntec Convention Centre, L4 Halls 401-406 and L3 Concourse · Fri 11am-9pm, Sat 1pm-9pm, Sun 9am-9pm · free entry · free two-way sling bag while stocks last · keycap keychain via the HTF Digital Pass
Dates and opening hours
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Fri 20 Nov | 11am to 9pm |
| Sat 21 Nov | 1pm to 9pm |
| Sun 22 Nov | 9am to 9pm |
The festival fills Level 4 Halls 401 to 406 plus the Level 3 Concourse at Suntec Convention Centre, arranged in four zones: Inspire, Illuminate, Imagine and Involve.
For dog lovers
- SCDF Search Platoon demo. Fire Investigation and Urban Search and Rescue dogs work through rubble to find "trapped casualties" and sniff out accelerants at a simulated fire scene.
- SPF K-9 Show. Try "Human vs Dog", a contraband hunt alongside the police dogs, play tug-of-war against a police dog, and stay for a meet-and-greet and photos.
- Ops Demo. A stage show based on real Home Team operations, with departments working together.
Play officer for a few minutes
- Shooting Range: a supervised live-firing activity with non-lethal equipment used by the prisons' SPEAR Force and the SPF Special Operations Command. There is no age limit, but participants must be at least 1.1m tall.
- CNB Drug Buster: search a mock HDB flat for hidden drug exhibits against the clock (parents and kids can play together), or try the VR covert-surveillance game for ages 12 and up.
- ICA Vehicle Search: use mock scanning tools to hunt for contraband in a life-sized car, the way officers check vehicles at land checkpoints.
- SPS Dayroom Dash, SPS VR Scenario and Fight the Manikin: a prison-officer video game, the VR simulation used to train new prison officers, and a baton strike test on a combat training manikin.
Gadgets and gear
Get close to the Traffic Police's Polestar 2 electric expressway patrol car, the Spyder hull-climbing robot that lets officers board ships, SCDF's Electric Pump Ladder (which SCDF says is the first of its kind in ASEAN) and a vehicle extrication robot for burnt-out EVs. Tech exhibits include a humanoid robot demo, the AlchemiX deepfake-spotting challenge, forensic LiDAR scene mapping, SGSecure mini games built in Roblox, and HTX's hands-on robotics course, where you steer a humanoid robot to a mock post-blast site.
For the kids
- Home Team Kiddy Rides: mini Home Team vehicles for ages 2 to 7, height 80cm to 120cm, up to 45kg.
- Smoke-logged Confined Maze: learn to stay low and find the exit in a dark, smoke-filled room set-up.
- Cell Search Challenge: search a mock prison cell for contraband and win a token.
- CPR-AED and IFAS booth: SCDF officers teach CPR, AED use and improvised first aid for severe bleeding.
- Children's Activity Book: for ages 3 to 7, with colouring, mazes, stickers and coloured pencils.
The freebies
- Two-way canvas sling bag for every visitor, collected at the entrances of Halls 401-402 and 405-406, while stocks last.
- Limited-edition keycap keychain, designed around the Home Team departments, for completing the Virtual Mission on the HTF Digital Pass. The pass also runs virtual queues for selected booths, and creation opens from 20 November.
Level 3 also has the Yellow Ribbon Hope Café, where every purchase supports Yellow Ribbon Cares, plus the Hope Workshop for an upcycled-fabric keepsake, claw machines and a Public Service Division roadshow.
Fine print
- Prohibited items include weapons, knives, fireworks, pepper spray, e-cigarettes and alcoholic drinks.
- Popular booths use an electronic queue system, so join through the Digital Pass instead of crowding the booth.
- Digital Pass registration collects your name and phone number for the mission and queues; MHA says the data is deleted after the event.
What this means for you
- Pick your window. Saturday opens only at 1pm, so Friday from 11am or Sunday from 9am gives you the quietest hours and the best shot at the sling bags.
- Set up the Digital Pass on arrival day. It holds both the virtual queues and the keychain mission, so register before you hit the first booth.
- Check heights before you queue. The shooting range needs 1.1m and the kiddy rides cap at 120cm, which settles which child goes where.
- Read the official guide. Zones, the stage programme and the exhibition listing are on the Home Team Festival 2026 site from MHA.
Source: Home Team Festival 2026 official site (hometeamfestival26.com, linked from mha.gov.sg/hometeamfestival), read 11 November 2026, and MHA's Home Team-branded festival guide on Mothership, 10 November 2026, which confirms free admission. Artwork and cover: Ministry of Home Affairs.
