[h=2]Foreigners in uniform[/h]
May 12th, 2014 |
Author: Contributions
The slap that was heard around the world
Police Operations Director Lau Peet Meng is one in favour of
recruiting foreigners for the Singapore Police Force (SPF). From what he says,
it appears that permanent residents can currently be (and probably are already)
recruited to police Singaporeans, “what kind of numbers, as an
organisation and as a society, we are prepared to take in… is something that
still needs to be further deliberated on”.
Perhaps Lau should also consider what kind of foreign talent will be wearing
the blue uniform. We could end up with these types of law enforcers gainfully
employed at their respective domicile countries:
Rashid Rangiris, the Philippines Bureau of
Immigration (BI) officer who roughhoused a female Chinese national at the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on May 5. Jiang Huixiang was
barred entry into the country because she was allegedly teaching in the
Philippines without required papers. A cell
phone video making the internet circuit shows her being dragged along the
floor by the immigration official. Next, the official is filmed shoving her with
brutal force and slapping her several times before pushing her into a nearby
room and out of the camera’s field of view.
[video]http://widgets.scmp.com/video/video_iframe.php?id=%20814056&movideo_m=814056[/video]
Ibrahim Latif, the police chief of Acheh,
Indonesia, who is insisting on caning the 25-year-old widow gang raped by a
group of 8 overzealous vigilantes enforcing the Shari‘a religious bylaw on
sexual relations. Accusing her of adultery, the vigilantes beat up her
40-year-old partner, indulged in their own wanton lust by having their way with
her, and then doused the two with sewage before turning them over to the
police.
Manila is standing by their immigration officer and plans to file assault
charges against the Chinese national. Indonesian Shari‘a police in Langsa plans
to go ahead with the public flogging for adultery, and take care of the rapists
separately in a criminal court, but not according to Shari‘a penal code.
Do we really need to integrate these bewildering administrations of justice
into our legal system? The BI employee may be a good fit in the prison system;
with his skill set of making the sure his victim is out of camera range before
dishing out the heavy treatment. Which could explain the lack of CCTV footage of
Dinesh Raman’s final moments. But Lau can’t be seriously
thinking of implementing Shari‘a law when he said, “We need, to some
extent, some sensitivity to understand our foreign population. The danger is if
it’s (purely Singaporean), you will lose touch with the people you’re
policing.” Bringing in the foreigners is bad enough, do we have to
ship in their variants of policing
methods?
Tattler
*
The writer blogs at singaporedesk.blogspot.com.
The slap that was heard around the world
Police Operations Director Lau Peet Meng is one in favour of
recruiting foreigners for the Singapore Police Force (SPF). From what he says,
it appears that permanent residents can currently be (and probably are already)
recruited to police Singaporeans, “what kind of numbers, as an
organisation and as a society, we are prepared to take in… is something that
still needs to be further deliberated on”.
Perhaps Lau should also consider what kind of foreign talent will be wearing
the blue uniform. We could end up with these types of law enforcers gainfully
employed at their respective domicile countries:
Rashid Rangiris, the Philippines Bureau of
Immigration (BI) officer who roughhoused a female Chinese national at the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on May 5. Jiang Huixiang was
barred entry into the country because she was allegedly teaching in the
Philippines without required papers. A cell
phone video making the internet circuit shows her being dragged along the
floor by the immigration official. Next, the official is filmed shoving her with
brutal force and slapping her several times before pushing her into a nearby
room and out of the camera’s field of view.
[video]http://widgets.scmp.com/video/video_iframe.php?id=%20814056&movideo_m=814056[/video]
Ibrahim Latif, the police chief of Acheh,
Indonesia, who is insisting on caning the 25-year-old widow gang raped by a
group of 8 overzealous vigilantes enforcing the Shari‘a religious bylaw on
sexual relations. Accusing her of adultery, the vigilantes beat up her
40-year-old partner, indulged in their own wanton lust by having their way with
her, and then doused the two with sewage before turning them over to the
police.
Manila is standing by their immigration officer and plans to file assault
charges against the Chinese national. Indonesian Shari‘a police in Langsa plans
to go ahead with the public flogging for adultery, and take care of the rapists
separately in a criminal court, but not according to Shari‘a penal code.
Do we really need to integrate these bewildering administrations of justice
into our legal system? The BI employee may be a good fit in the prison system;
with his skill set of making the sure his victim is out of camera range before
dishing out the heavy treatment. Which could explain the lack of CCTV footage of
Dinesh Raman’s final moments. But Lau can’t be seriously
thinking of implementing Shari‘a law when he said, “We need, to some
extent, some sensitivity to understand our foreign population. The danger is if
it’s (purely Singaporean), you will lose touch with the people you’re
policing.” Bringing in the foreigners is bad enough, do we have to
ship in their variants of policing
methods?
Tattler
*
The writer blogs at singaporedesk.blogspot.com.
