Changed statistics show that harsh policies aren’t working as well as had been hoped
Singapore’s drug enforcement agency the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has just admitted that instead of improving as previously claimed, the drug situation has actually gotten worse. Admitting to an error in the compilation of statistics, bureau director Ng Boon Gay said that figures now showed that in 2008 there had been 2,537 drug abuse arrests compared with the 1,925 originally reported and that this had risen 2,887 in 2010 not the fall to 1,805 previously reported. The discrepancies were blamed on a new technology system introduced in 2008. There has also been a surge in arrests over the past eight weeks. Full story
