COMMENT | Policing the MCO: We need more of the best, less of the worst

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A lack of clear guidelines from the government is worsening the quality of law enforcement.

| Last week, there were two very different videos circulating, both featuring policemen in the outdoors during the movement control order .

Another was a photo of a small packet of food being passed through the barbed wire that separated the residents of Malaya Mansion from the outside world. The fact that these are foreign workers should not change the rights they are afforded as human beings. There seems to be no evidence to suggest that they deserve to be treated so harshly. They too are as much victims of this virus as any of the rest of us.

Given that the police stated that Kevin died of breathing difficulties, there is the added possibility that this case may be related to Covid-19 as well. If so, this raises the problem once again of whether lockups are becoming overcrowded during the MCO. It is heartening that the authorities have slowly started to realise that fines are a better way of punishing violations of the MCO, compared to detention.

That said as well, the same credit cannot be extended to the comment of the inspector general of police , who warned against making video recordings of the police at roadblocks. Indeed, the IGP should be encouraging more video recordings of the police, to show that the vast majority of them are doing a good job - like the policeman who took the trouble to rescue the puppy from the drain.

This lack of clear guidelines and detailed policies put a lot of stress on law enforcement, and sometimes leave too much to the interpretation of the police at roadblocks.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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