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Chua Chin Kiat
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Chua Chin Kiat: Centre For Enabled Living, Singapore

Chapter 14 in The Making of Captains of Lives:Prison Reform in Singapore: 1999 to 2007, 2012, pp 103-111 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractIn early 2007, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Benny Lim, spoke to me over lunch. He offered me a secondment to a government-linked private sector company — Aetos Security Management Pte Ltd (“Aetos”). If I accepted the offer, I would leave the Prison Service six months before my retirement to give way to Ng Joo Hee. Just before this conversation, my relationship with the Ministry had become quite testy. It seemed to me that this was an indication that the Ministry had enough of me and I must confess that at the point in time, the feeling was mutual. I accepted the offer. In return, I was given the opportunity to attend the Advance Management Programme in INSEAD, Fontainebleau (near Paris) to prepare me for my foray into the private sector. I left the Prison Service in November 2007 to take up the post of CEO and Executive Director in Aetos; however, I only retired from the Civil Service in May 2008. Just before my departure, my deputy and close associate Jason Wong accepted an offer from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) to be seconded there for three years. He subsequently requested for his service to be transferred permanently from the Prison Service to MCYS. He would later accept an offer to transfer his service to MCYS, never to return to the Prison Service.

Keywords: Captains of Lives; Yellow Ribbon Project; Change Management; Correctional Management; Prison Reform; General Management; Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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