POLICING AND SOCIETY

OBJECTIVES

• History of Policing
• Purpose of Policing
• Policing in Singapore
• Future of Policing

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9 Princples for
the Bobbies

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law.... by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing

6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation

7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence

8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State,

9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

POLICING WITH CONSENT

So what is the purpose of policing?
A) Enforce the Law
B) Keep the peace
C) Create a society that enables human flourishing

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DEVIANCE MGMT

RISK MGMT

THE GOOD LIFE

“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

PASSION

AMUSEMENT

“Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

FUTURE OF SPF

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