Home Team Journal: Issue 10

Dedicated to the service of Home Team officers and our partners in the community, Issue 10 of the Home Team Journal features the continuing work of various Home Team departments in keeping Singapore safe and secure amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Their articles describe the challenges of staying focused on their missions while accelerating transformation efforts to adapt to unprecedented challenges in the operating environment.

The third instalment of “The Leadership Interview” series features DS (Development) Mr Chan Tsan’s riveting story of how the newest member of the Home Team, HTX was formed to boost the Home Team’s science and technological innovations, which had its official opening just a month before the virus broke out in Wuhan.

At the request of the Journal, Chief Psychologist Dr Majeed Khader contributed his reflections on his personal journey as a Home Team psychologist, which started at one of the training schools, the Police Academy where his first task was to teach stress management to officers. Through his leadership and the support of top management, the Home Team psychology community has developed by leaps and bounds since then, providing behavioural sciences and psychological support in the areas of three ‘Os’ – officers, organisation, and operations.

Contents

• Guarding against the invisible enemy

• Staying safely and competently on mission

• Keeping temporary dormitory sites safe for our foreign workers: A fire safety perspective

• Singapore's emergency medical service: Reducing occupational risk while saving lives in a pandemic

• Sense-making and surveillance in an unprecedented medical crsis

• Innovating psychological services to support the police in a pandemic

• Home-based learning for Police basic training: Lessons learnt

• Building psychological resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Four strategies for community leaders

• Supporting national quarantine efforts while accelerating training transformation in the Home Team

• Fighting the Covid-19 War - with a little help from Clausewitz

• The leadership interview with Chan Tsan, Chief Executive, Home Team Science and Technology Agency

• Fake News and Real Violence: Why building social media literacy is a national security imperative

• Nudging, by finding the right words: How do we say it is as important as what we say

• The transformation of yellow ribbon Singapore

• Yellow Ribbon Singapore's impact on inmate recidivism rates

• The three key success factors of innovation in the Singapore Police Force

• Indian police and its involvement in intelligence: History and current challenges

• Uncovering the workings of credit-for-sex scams

• Evolution of Islamic state narratives amid the Covid-19 pandemic

• Disrupting Indonesia's violent extremism online ecosystem: Best practices from running a community website

• The conundrum of saving others: Identifying factrors that influence responding in times of emergencies via the myResponder Smartphone Application

• Speaking to witnesses, informants and patients: Psychological tactics for pandemic contact tracing

• Reflections by Dr. Majeed Khader: From pioneer police psychologist to the Home Team's Chief Psychologist

View: Home Team Journal Issue No. 10