{"id":20124,"date":"2017-11-21T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2017-11-21T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:11:51","slug":"assault-harassment-of-a-student-in-a-local-vocational-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20124","title":{"rendered":"Assault, harassment of a student in a local vocational institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Public Complaints Bureau (SUPP PCB) Chief, Wilfred Yap was worried that a student may\u00a0 be a victim of physical assault and called on the authorities concerned to have a proper investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Yap was recently approached by a student of a local vocational learning institute who claimed\u00a0that he was\u00a0physically slapped and verbally harassed by a lecturer without any proper justification. Fearing for his own safety, the student had lodged a police report on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>SUPP PCB&#8217;s stand on the matter is that aggressive physical intervention should never be used as a substitute for good behavioural management in any institution of learning and that it is illegal to victimize or physically assault or harass a student.<\/p>\n<p>Yap have now written to the institution concerned for a proper investigation to be carried out urgently and will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that the student is not unfairly treated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20125\" style=\"width: 4160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20125\" alt=\"SUPP PCB Chief, Wilfred Yap listening to the student who had requested for his assistance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed4.jpg\" width=\"4160\" height=\"3120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed4.jpg 4160w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed4-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4160px) 100vw, 4160px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SUPP PCB Chief, Wilfred Yap listening to the student who had requested for his assistance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Public Complaints Bureau (SUPP PCB) Chief, Wilfred Yap was worried that a student may\u00a0 be a victim of physical assault and called on the authorities concerned to have a proper investigation. Yap was recently approached by a student of a local vocational learning institute who claimed\u00a0that he was\u00a0physically slapped and verbally harassed by a lecturer without any proper justification. Fearing for his own safety, the student had lodged a police report on the matter. SUPP PCB&#8217;s stand on the matter is that aggressive physical intervention should never be used<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20124\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20126,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions\/20126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}