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Singapore anti-crime scheme a world best
Singapore - November 10, 2003 - Singapore's National Crime Prevention
Council has received international recognition of its efforts to mobilize
ordinary people to fight crime, and has received the annual award for the
best state anti-crime programme from the International Society of Crime
Prevention Practitioners. Council chairman, Tan Kian Hoon, said, "We are
honoured to be bench-marked against international standards in the way and
it is recognition of all the efforts by the council."
The Statesman - November 11, 2003.
This cop gets all calculations right
Kolkata - November 27, 2003 - In West Bengal's hilly north, criminals are
more likely than not to have heard the name of middle-aged policeman
Kamakhya Chandra Mondal, a former school teacher, who joined the police
force in 1984. He deals with crime and criminals with his brand of
"non-violent punishment" that uses textbooks, literature classics and
biographies of leaders. For most criminals, Mondal is the police-master
whose queer punishment methods they find more intolerable than third degree
torture. His repertoire of punishment includes solving mathematical
problems, writing essays, reading novels and for the worst of all criminals
doing all of it and giving a test. Khokon Samanta, a criminal, says, "In the
past, I must have been arrested at least 20 times, but I have not committed
any crime since I spent time with the police master." Mondal says he first
checks if a criminal can read and write. "If he is illiterate, then he has
to start with A, B, C, D or the Bengali alphabet or 1, 2, 3, 4."
His has been a success story so far.
Hindustan Times - November 28, 2003.
UK to give police sweeping powers to fight terrorism
London - November 26, 2003 - The Prime Minister Tony Blair's government
proposed sweeping new powers for the police to deal with terrorist attacks
and other emergencies, a plan which has alarmed civil liberties compaigners.
. "The threat of international terrorism and a changing climate have led to
a series of emergencies and heightened concerns for the future," said Queen
Elzabeth II.
The Asian Age - November 27, 2003.
Food for Thought
The key to leadership is to accept responsibility."
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred
days of sorrow.
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"Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try."
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THOUGHTS ON HOPE
: Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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