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The country also ranks highly on the Global Peace Index, being consistently placed in the top 10 and the highest in Asia for the past decade. Foreign travel advisories for Singapore often state that petty crime such as pickpocketing and street theft as extremely rare in Singapore. Violent crime is also deemed extremely rare and almost non-existent.
While the Minister for Home Affairs must be satisfied that a detention order is required in the interests of public safety, peace and good order in Singapore, it does not follow that the threat to public safety, peace and good order must result from criminal activities in Singapore; [53] however, in the 2015 case of Tan Seet Eng v Attorney ...
The VSC is composed of volunteers from all walks of life in Singapore, from businessmen to blue-collar executives to even bus captains, bonded with the same aspiration to serve the nation by complementing the Singapore Police Force. They are vested with equal powers of a police officer to enforce law and order in Singapore.
By the Singapore Colony Order in Council 1946, [45] Singapore was constituted as a new colony under the British Settlements Acts 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 54 (UK)). A Singapore Legislative Council was created with power to legislate for the peace, order and good government of the Colony. [46]
The PCMR's powers of legislative review are further attenuated because the Constitution designates certain types of bills as falling outside the ambit of its scrutiny, namely, money bills, bills certified by the Prime Minister as affecting "the defence or the security of Singapore" or relating to "public safety, peace or good order in Singapore ...
The Minister for Home Affairs also has power to order that a registered society be dissolved if it appears to him or her that, among other things, it is being used for unlawful purposes or for purposes "prejudicial to public peace, welfare or good order in Singapore". [71] Once an order has been made, the society becomes an unlawful society. [72]
The Singapore courts have interpreted the term public order to be equivalent to the concepts of "public peace, welfare and good order" referred to in section 24(1)(a) of the Societies Act (Cap. 311, 1985 Rev. Ed.), rather than taking the narrower view that public order means freedom from unlawful physical violence. There has also been academic ...
In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organised Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime .