Singapore's Scariest Building

At first I thought it was some kind of revolving restaurant, but I am told that this building is actually police headquarters for Singapore: a genuine Panopticon in the heart of the city-state! Or should I write police-state?

This brief exerpt from the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Foucault suggests why the "Panopticon" is an ominous choice of architecture style for a national police headquarters:

For Foucault, the epitome of the institutions of “discipline” -- a mode of domination that sought to render each instance of "deviance" utterly visible, whether in the name of prevention or rehabilitation -- was the Panopticon, a circular prison designed in 1787 by the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham, which laid each inmate open to the scrutiny of the dark eye of a central watchtower.

What were they thinking when they built that thing?