He was speaking at the Singapore Police Force and Ministry of Home Affairs scholarship ceremony.
Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam highlighted how disinformation and hate speech were among the causes of the riots in Britain.
“We have tried to pre-empt such a situation from arising by having a carefully designed legal framework, and also carefully designed set of policies which give priority to law and order,” said the minister. “We don’t put the police in Singapore in such a position. Because we say, you want to protest, you get a permit. Police will make an assessment. If there is the likelihood of a law-and-order issue, there will be no permit given,” he said.
Eleven were given the MHA Uniformed Scholarship, 10 the MHA Civilian Scholarship and six the Home Team Science and Technology Agency Scholarship.
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