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Call for Savusavu police inves
A SAVUSAVU businessman wants the town's police investigated by the Anti-Corruption Unit.
Nightclub owner, Solomone Verematai, who lost his nightclub to a fire during the Easter weekend, said police were nowhere around when they were desperately needed during the fire.
Mr Verematai described the service of the police in the past years as 'pathetic'.
The businessman said he ran to the police post at around 3a.m when he was notified of the fire but the post was empty.
A call to the town's police station was also unsuccessful - no one answered the telephone call... Read more
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The Malaysian Insider - Kuala
22 January 2009
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Hong Kong: Psychological profi
Police recruits will undergo psychological profiling from next year and ethics officers will be appointed to monitor behaviour after a drop in public confidence.
Satisfaction with the force dropped nearly 8 percentage points in a survey last month after media reports about a policeman charged with raping a woman in Mong Kok station.
The force revealed yesterday that 23 policemen were charged with crimes last year. Five involved serious sex offences like rape and indecent assault, others included minor offences like throwing objects from heights. Twenty policemen were charged with crimes in 2007.
At a briefing on the annual crime situation yesterday, Police Commissioner Tang King-shing said: "If the constable is convicted in the case of raping a young woman, we owe an apology to the victim."
He condemned any illegal activities by officers and said the force adopted a policy of zero tolerance.
A psychometric test will be implemented on recruits from 2010 in order to assess whether applicants can stand the pressure of police work.
Deputy Police Commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung said: "The test is not a screening tool, but a reference as part of the selection procedure."
The personal characters of applicants will be analysed in the test to help officers construct a psychometric profile. A psychologist and a statistician will help implement the measure.
A committee will also be set up to examine how it can better monitor the integrity of officers and improve the force's image. It will be headed by Tsang and include senior officers from each district. A representative from the Independent Commission against Corruption will sit on the committee.
An ethics officer, usually a chief superintendent or senior superintendent, will be appointed at district level to monitor officers' behaviour.
The police chief said he did not believe there was a rising trend of immorality in the force and he pointed out that many officers were involved in volunteer work. A customer satisfaction survey commissioned by the force, conducted in November before the rape case, showed that the police scored 4.01 marks out of five.
Cheung Him, a professor of psychology at Chinese University, said psychometric tests could help to screen out applicants who were anti-social or had personality defects.
"Such tests have already been used by many large companies to know more about their applicants' personalities. The pace of the police is a bit slow [in this respect]."
Cheung said it was reasonable for the police to take a year to prepare as both model officers and underperformers needed to take the test first to check its accuracy.
"If there are substantial differences in their results, it means the test can distinguish these two types of people."
Cheung said police management had to set out the qualities needed by a potential officer when preparing the test.
Dennis Wong Sing-wing, a criminologist at City University, said he welcomed the incorporation of a psychometric test into the recruitment process. But he said it was equally important to consider the performance of applicants in interviews and comments by their referees.
Police recruits in countries such as the United States and Australia are already subject to psychological assessment.
Wong said the tests were mainly used to screen out those with mental illnesses, personality disorders or moral reasoning problems.
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