Objectives
This is a mandatory leadership course for Home Team uniformed and civilian officers who are slated for or are in senior command appointments. Its objectives are to provide participants with:
• Knowledge, values and attitudes essential for Directors and Commanders in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• Foundational understanding of the concepts and policies underlying good governance of public organizations.
• A deeper understanding of crisis leadership.
• A strategic perspective of the regional and international social-political issues that influence the stability and survival of Singapore, in particular, their impact on the Home Team departments.
Who Should Attend
Selected Senior Officers holding the minimum rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police/SCDF Major or equivalent.
Duration
34 days
Capacity
20 participants
Delivery Approach
Lectures, discussions, visits, practical exercises
Description
Challenges and Issues Impacting the Home Team
• Challenges and issues facing MHA
• Community engagement programme
• Drivers for change
• The rise of the 1 man NGO
• Creating a training paradigm within the HT which propels operational excellence
• Regional flashpoints
• Singapore’s foreign policy and the rise of China and India
Executive Programme
Home Team Crisis Leadership Competency Framework
• Introduction to the HT crisis leadership competency framework
• Dialogue session with HT HODs and senior commanders on experience sharing in managing an actual crisis
Training in the 7 core competency areas
• Personal Effectiveness “Recognising and developing strengths in one’s self to calmly embrace crisis”
• Situation Awareness “Staying aware of the happenings around you – connecting the dots”
• Crisis Decision Making “Tackling decisional challenges to the best of your ability”
• Crisis Communications “Being attuned to stakeholders’ informational needs in a clear and timely fashion”
• Task Management “Calibrating priorities and mobilizing networks to optimize resources available to manage tasks effectively”
• Team Management “Building collective capacity in teams as well as empowering individual adaptability”
• Operational Knowledge “Sustaining personal growth in knowledge to operate efficiently”
Homefront Security Studies
• Hotel Serena Kabul case study
• The evolving role of the private security sector in Singapore
• Aviation security
• Strategic Issues in homefront security
• Joint operations exercises
Strategic & Crisis Communications Workshop
• The media mentality and essentials
• Introduction to crisis
• Pre and post crisis communications / Crisis communications delivery sequence
• Simulation Exercises
Networking Visit
• Overseas visit to counterpart homefront agencies
Executive Programme
Public Policy and Governance
• Organisational levers of change
• How can we prepare for future complexity and uncertainty
• Anti-corruption strategies in Asian countries – a comparative analysis
• Government citizen relations and public private partnerships
• Policy learning and adaptation
Contemporary Security Studies
• The radicalization process : How terrorists are made
• US foreign policy – the post Bush administration
• Ten concepts to understanding the Post Cold War
• Issues in International Law relevant to law enforcement and national security officials
• Significance of humanitarian / rescue mission
• Corporate governance of a public institution
• Political developments in Malaysia
• Multiculturalism, identity and citizenship
• ASEAN integration
• The rise of religious extremism and Al Qaeda in SEA
• International pressure / advocacy groups and their effect on sovereign states
• Extremism, terrorism and the global Jihad movement
• The current financial downturn and its implications
• ISA detainee rehabilitation
• Terrorist financing
• Fighting terrorism : Unconventional threats to Singapore
• The Indonesian experience in Countering Terrorism
• Political Change, political violence and Islamic militancy in SEA
Experience Articles
| Home Team Senior Command and Staff Course |
Written by Mr Jansen Ang, Principal Psychologist, Head (Operations & Forensic Psychology Branch) & Assistant Director (Behavioural Sciences Unit) |
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Contact Us
LTC Anbalagan Thangarajah
Director, Joint Training
Tel: (65) 6465 3829