Singapore panel recommends use of 'lathi' during violence

February 26, 2014 10:23

A committee constituted to probe Singapore's worst riot in 40 years in the Little India precinct has recommended police to carry a lathi in handling violent street protesters, according to a media report today.

The chairman of the state-appointed Committee of Inquiry into the December riot has recommended police to carry a lathi (baton) in handling such street protesters, The Straits Times reported.

"Although you have a gun, you don't use it (and) this (lathi) might be more useful," the Singapore daily quoted a senior police official as saying during a public hearing on how police initially faced the riots on the night of December 8 last year.

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