{"id":52720,"date":"2016-03-07T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T22:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52720"},"modified":"2016-03-07T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T22:14:04","slug":"state-intelligence-and-crime-eradication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/07\/state-intelligence-and-crime-eradication\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE INTELLIGENCE AND CRIME ERADICATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I am just watching TV news about the instructions given by PM to the police to re activate Intelligence Service based in Police stations<\/p>\n<p>During a recent visit to Singapore I was told by locals that state intelligence service is quite active and \u00a0invisible .They watch the whole nation and take appropriate action to prevent any disturbance or crimes which may have adverse effect on the country\u2019s stability<\/p>\n<p>No one complains as it is done by the state for the betterment of the country<\/p>\n<p>I was told that in the Indian Sector called little India  there was an incident where an Asian worker has been knocked down by a Chinese Bus driver ,causing disturbance among the community who went on rampage .It was some what violent and the Gurka regiment in Singapore moved in to suppress the Asian ( Tamils of Indian origin and Bangladeshi\u2019s) skirmish.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore government went to the extent of prohibiting drinking in public or by road sides in the area after 9 pm and imposed strict rules<\/p>\n<p>Today the area is full of civil clad police watching the youngsters<\/p>\n<p>We need to have a very strong \u00a0educated intelligence service with powers to apprehend the culprits and take appropriate legal action where needed<\/p>\n<p>Most of the criminals use Three wheelers and even luxury cars to transport weapons and criminals .hence random checking will surely discourage such activities<\/p>\n<p>Every junction to have CCTV camera\u2019s to detect movement of vehicles ,where record can be used to detect vehicles which may have involved in a crime<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there are \u00a0many un employed graduates who can be deployed for this service ( which can be categorised as a white collar job) \u00a0and salaries can be paid from funds from fines imposed in courts and by selling confiscated properties of criminals<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 I am just watching TV news about the instructions given by PM to the police to re activate Intelligence Service based in Police stations During a recent visit to Singapore I was told by locals that state intelligence service is quite active and \u00a0invisible .They watch the whole nation and take appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}