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Nov 13, 2010

CRACKDOWN ON YOUTH GANGS
Govt takes tough line

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'The concern is understandable because these are not random acts. They were senseless violence. They were revenge attacks,' Mr Shanmugam said. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA

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THE Government on Friday pledged to go all out to deal with the problem of gang attacks and the senseless violence that has ensued, and acknowledged public concern over the recent spate of youth violence.
A 'blitz' by the police has already netted at least 40 suspected gang members, and the sweep will continue in the coming weeks.
Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Friday sounded a clear warning to those involved in gangs, and pointed out that the two attacks in Downtown East and Bukit Panjang were the result of gang fights.
'They were senseless violence but not random acts. They were revenge attacks,' he said at a press briefing at the police headquarters in New Phoenix Park.
The first incident, in Downtown East on Oct 30, happened when an arranged meeting between two youth gangs turned ugly.
Polytechnic student Darren Ng Wei Jie, 19, who was killed in the fight, was apparently a member of one of the gangs. Five men have been charged with murder while being members of an unlawful assembly.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Nov 13, 2010

GANG ATTACKS
No racial undertones

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HOME Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Friday strongly dismissed any notions that the recent gang attacks had racial undertones.
'In the Bukit Panjang attack, the arrested assailants were Malay, the victims in that case were random in the sense that they were looking for a gang and then they found some victims, several of them were Chinese, there was one Indian,' he said.
He added: 'The general trend that the Criminal Investigation Department has noticed is that our gangs, like our society, are multiracial in nature.'
He also gave assurances that gang activities were not on the rise. Police statistics show that the number of youth arrested for rioting has been stable.
Since 2006, around 500 youth have been arrested for rioting every year. In the first half of this year, 278 were held.
Mr Shanmugam made it clear that the authorities intend to deal with gangs very firmly. Those involved in the attacks would be dealt with severely.

 

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Nov 13, 2010

Gangs recruit teens in Bukit Panjang

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GANG members have been recruiting fresh blood into their ranks outside school premises.
This was revealed in a police briefing on Friday.
RazorTV asked residents of Bukit Panjang, where two armed attacks occurred on Monday, if they noticed gangs in the schools.
Some said they have seen or heard of gangs recruiting outside secondary schools in the neighbourhood.
Mr Alex Lim, a former gang member and now a youth mentor, said that gangs usually recruit people from secondary schools, video game arcades, void decks or shopping centres.
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