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Time to go back to basics: Tomer

Mr Tomer being flanked by Acting CS Commissioner(left) and Public Solicitor Frazier Pitpit at his final farewell.

DEPARTING senior sector stalwart Dominic Tomer has urged the sector to start looking at the previous building blocks to help it improve its performance.

Mr Tomer who has retired in April made the remarks when thanking the sector for his going finish party.

" After 10 years of working together as a sector we now need to start looking at the basics and establish if we have deviated from that," said Mr Tomer.

 He said since the concept of a sector was mooted a decade ago, a lot of critics had feared it would not work, however it stood the test of time. Mr Tomer added that one of the key catalysts of this was the Criminal Justice Track.

This theme, Mr Tomer pointed had initially attracted a lot of agencies, and today the key question that continues to be asked , was if there were impacts at all.

"There may be many success stories but the one that binds us together is the criminal justice track. And we should start asking if anything has been accomplished either as a sector or by each of the individual agencies," said Mr Tomer.

For the Correctional Service he said the department's present position was a huge milestone, a feat he credits the assistance of the sector.

He said the sector must not be complacent but be proactive towards working at all available options and avenues to address its challenges.

"We have come a long way and it also is timely to look at some of the achievements and ascertain if, we can leap to the next phase of these milestones," he said.

He further paid tribute the likes of Kepas Paon, Ruby Zariga, Jim Wan, the late Raka Lohia and Lawrence Newell, as well as Stephen Mokis. He described them as a visionists who chartered and followed through what is now the sectoral approach towards law and justice challenges.