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Home Team Journal: Issue 9

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1 February 2020

Topics: Crime & Vigilantism,Discrimination,Keeping Singapore Drug Free,Transforming the Home Team,Terrorism,Drugs & Female Offenders,Enhancing Security Leadership,Training & Transformation,Managing Security Threats,Maintaining Law & Order

In this issue, we continue the conversation on transformation and leadership with Deputy Secretary (International and Training), Ministry of Home Affairs, T. Raja Kumar who illustrates key points in his essay on building a culture of learning in the Home Team.

The Journal also spoke with Commissioner of Police Hoong Wee Teck, in the Leadership Interview. In this first interview he has given since becoming CP in 2015, he talks about the lessons from the cases he investigated over more than three decades of fighting crime, the ethos of public service that drive him, and the professional excellence that he demands of his officers.

Some of the articles in this issue were inspired by recent news headlines. These include deepfakes, cyber vigilantes, radicalized youths, returning foreign fighters, criminal scams, mass protests and gender. The articles were written by the Home Team's behavioural scientists, psychologists and research analysts, and experts from among our global partners.

Contents

  • The Leadership Interview with Commissioner of Police Hoong Wee Teck

Training & Transformation

  • Building a Training and Learning Ecosystem in the Home Team: A Journey of Transformation

  • The SCDF’s Future-Ready Workforce: Transforming the Skills and Heartware of Our People

Disinformation

  • Will Deepfakes Change the Landscape of Disinformation?

Crime & Vigilantism

  • Cyber Vigilantism: What Drives People to Enact Morality Online and What Can We Do About It?

  • Don’t Believe Me, Just Watch: Live-streaming Crime

  • Impersonation Scams in Singapore: Who Falls for Them?

Terrorism

  • Why Do Youths Join Terrorist Groups? A Psychological Study of At-Risk and Radicalised Youths in Singapore

  • Hegemonic Masculinity and the Rise of the Indonesian Foreign Fighter

Drugs & Female Offenders

  • The Risk Factors that Drive Young Women to Drug Abuse

  • Young Women in the Singapore Prison System: A Preliminary Study of Risk and Needs of Female Youth Offenders

  • 4 Needs, 4 Findings, 3 Practices: Gender-responsive Guidelines for Working with Female Offenders in Singapore Prisons

Homefront Insights

  • The BSC Brief: What Drives Protesters

  • Against the Odds: How Effective is Protest?

View: Home Team Journal: Issue 9

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