I say this because the ISA exists because it is a legal licence to abuse a detainee. My own experience was that the police used the 60 days to cow, humiliate, initimidate and literally beat me into agreeing to the story that they concocted from their sick minds about espionage and spy masters. I cannot see how the DPM can prevent abuse unless he sits in the interrogation rooms all the time. The ISA is used so that men can beat women. In every interrogation session that I was put through there was a woman Special Branch officer present except for the session when I was beaten.
Rules are conveniently bent when the police break the law.
The ISA is used so that police personel can verbally abuse detainees. They can insult my religion, my religious leaders, my family and my friends. The ISA is used so that the police personnel can barter with female detainees who ask for another panty because the only one she has has been stained with menstrual blood. Getting a pair of slippers or anything for that matter is a major negotiation. So I am convinced that the DPM does not know what he is talking about.