Originally posted by BillyBong:
The underlying requirement: [b]the victim should go to the hospital for a
medical review and get the medical report. is
either conceived by a pencil pusher or a desktop bureaucrat.
If the police are incapable of even detaining obvious assailants
after an OBVIOUS crime has been committed, then a sense of
lawlessness is sweeping over Singapore. I could easily beat up on
another person, claim that person stared and provoked me, and the
police can't do a damn thing.
If that's justice for you, then go ahead and 'agree' with the
police actions.
The biggest gangsters in Singapore are the police themselves; now
that they've been exposed as inadequate, they cling to the law and
use it to brow beat the 'dumb' public into submission. [/b]
As usual, you have let loose a a barrage of vitriolic comments
without considering the merits of distinguishing between seizable
and non-seizable offences. Without such a distinction, we will
force the police to arrest every husband or wife in a domestic
dispute or kids who slap each other in the playground. Not only is
that a waste of valuable police resources, do you really want to
turn Singapore into a police state?
Making it a requirement for a magistrate's order in non-seizable
offences will enable a judge to decide if there is a prima facie
case for further police action. That is reasonable and will weed
out frivolous and groundless allegations.
