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Home Team Journal: Issue 8

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Home Team Academy

1 April 2019

Topics: Keeping Singapore Drug Free,Home Team: Transformation and leadership,Transforming the Security Industry,Transforming the Home Team,Home Team: Transforming the Home Team,Terrorism,Enhancing Security Leadership,Managing Security Threats,Maintaining Law & Order

In this issue, we share with readers a topic that is HTA’s core business and close to the collective hearts and minds of Home Team officers – leadership. We are honoured to feature an interview with our Permanent Secretary (PS), Mr Pang Kin Keong, who shares with us the basic requirements he has of a leader in the Home Team: “inspire and motivate… make officers happier in their workplace, more motivated, more committed.” Two other articles contributed by our Home Team psychologists anchor the theme on leadership.

The remaining articles deal with topics related to the Home Team’s mission of keeping Singapore safe and secure, such as terrorism, drugs and crime, and leveraging technology to enhance human performance in firefighting. In keeping with the journal’s role as a platform to stimulate discussions on homefront security issues, we are proud to publish a line-up that features contributions from both internal and external writers, including a special contribution by a public service veteran with four decades of experience in crisis communications, and a primer on fake news by the HT Behavioural Sciences Centre.

Leadership

  • The Leadership Interview with PS (Home Affairs) Pang Kin Keong

  • Leading in a Fat Tail World: Modern Crises and Recommendation for Leaders

  • Defining the Leader in Border Security: A Leadership Competency Framework

Terrorism

  • Down the Rabbit Hold: ISIS on the Internet and How it Influences Singapore Youth

  • Applying Behavioural Insights to Youth Radicalisation

  • Bystander Intervention to Prevent Radicalisation: Insights from a Behavioural Sciences Perspective

  • Building Bridges, Managing Relations: Community Interventions in the AFtermath of a Terrorist Attack

Drugs & Crime

  • Singapore's Drug Control Policy: Why Zero Tolerance Works

  • Stealing MOre than Just our Heart: A Preliminary Study of Online Love Scams

  • Self-Efficacy, Social Relationships and Desistance from Crime: A Singapore Prison Study

  • Optimising Firefighters' Performance with Wearable Technology and Predictive Data Analytics

Homefront Insights

  • Through a Glass Darkly: Some Insights on Crisis Communications

  • Fake News: Five Key Things Home Team Officers Should Know

View: Home Team Journal: Issue 8

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