SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Home Affairs is considering filing an application to appeal against a recent High Court judgement that awarded a man with SS$20,000 in damages for being wrongly imprisoned.
SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Home Affairs has a"different view" from a recent High Court judgement that awarded a man with SS$20,000 in damages for being wrongly imprisoned by the police, and is considering filing an appeal against the judgement, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam in Parliament on Tuesday .
The case had drawn criticism from the public over the police’s operating procedures, noted Mr Shanmugam on Tuesday. He said the police took a different view from the court’s conclusion that Mr Mah unusual behaviour did not qualify as symptoms of someone with a mental disorder, and that SSgt Rosli had arrested Mr Mah because he disliked him.
This is because police officers work in high-stress and dynamic environments, and often have to make split-second decisions and take decisive action based on limited information. Such danger, according to the law, must be reasonably suspected to be attributable to a mental disorder.What constitutes danger for officers on the ground when dealing with someone under the MHCTA
Officers must be given “sufficient latitude” to make swift ground assessments and decisions done in good faith, he said.
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