SINGAPORE: The director of the Main Narcotics Bureau (CNB) will be retiring in November after a 35-year public service career that oversaw the particular seizure of record quantities of medicines in Singapore and raised the bureau’s international profile, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday (Jul 12).
Mr Ng Se tornar Song, 60, who has been CNB’s movie director since February this year, will retire upon Nov 6.
He will be been successful by senior director of the joint functions group at MHA, Mr Tee Chong Fui Sam, on the same day.
Prior to that, Mr First tee will be appointed since director of CNB (Designate) on Aug 15.
Mister Ng started their public service profession with the Singapore Police in 1987 and it has helmed several essential appointments, said MHA.
“Mr Ng was a strong recommend of Singapore’s zero tolerance stance toward drugs and the damage prevention strategies that undergird it. Their tenure in CNB saw impressive operational outcomes, including effective joint operations with international partners towards overseas-based syndicates providing drugs to Singapore, ” the ministry added.
A lot more than 20 drug syndicates were dismantled each year with record quantities of drugs seized in some operations, stated MHA.
Within April last year, CNB seized drugs worth over S$2. 3 million , including about 23kg of cannabis and about 16kg of heroin.
The particular cannabis seizure was your CNB’s largest given that 1996.
Since director, Mr Ng implemented a differentiated drug supervision plan using business analytics to determine suitable treatment programmes based on the danger assessment of abusers, said MHA.
He also initiated the ASEAN Avoidance Drug Education Website, which was commissioned within 2018, to enable ASEAN countries to learn from one another to reinforce their drug avoidance efforts, said MHA.