A lawyer’s group has blasted the government for taking “shortcuts” in attempting to reintroduce oppressive laws such as the Emergency Ordinance (EO) rather than focus on improving the police force.
In a statement today, Lawyers for Liberty co-founder and adviser Eric Paulsen said the solution to the nation’s crime problem “will not be found in the reintroduction of oppressive and antiquated preventive laws like the EO or other similar laws that provide them with wide and arbitrary powers to detain suspects at their leisure for long periods of time without recourse to due process and a fair trial”.
He said the focus should be on improving and upgrading the police force.
“Instead of providing short cuts, the government should strengthen the police force properly and provide them with adequate resources, support and training to be a modern and civilised first world police force that rely on effective, innovative and modern investigation methods rather than the bad old days of torture, abuse of power and preventive laws,” said Paulsen in a statement today.
Paulsen said focus should also be on allocating resources to “real crime fighting” and not wasting valuable resources on “the redundant Special Branch and bloated Federal Reserve Unit, Light Strike Force, Rela” and other apparatus that he said were often misused to target dissent instead of crime.
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