The hard truth behind lackadaisical enforcement of laws

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The 'management by complaints' system in the civil service seems to place the responsibility of law enforcement on the public. FMTNews Management Water Complaints

The latest case — Sungai Gong, and so many others before it, whether it involves water, air or land pollution — are not the evil work of the polluters alone since they have been allowed to misbehave all these years.

During pre-independence days, law-enforcement was done in a pro-active manner where the enforcement officers had to go out and randomly carry out real surprise checks in the specific areas they were in charge of. Nowadays, it is based on “reports” from the lower strata to the higher levels. Would any enforcement officer give an incriminating report about his own work?

Thus, it is not uncommon to hear answers from heads of enforcement departments that “there was no complaint about this before” whenever any grouse is aired.The enforcement methodology now is that if members of the public do not complain, there is nothing wrong that warrants attention or action.

 

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