Rebooting our racial quotas

Fine, young cops. Front row, from left: the writer's father, Wong Heck Ming, Joseph Chong, Tan Teck Seng and Ng Peng Imm. Back row: F. David, Khoo Bin Keng, C. Kamalanathan and M. Navaratnam at the Kuala Lumpur police training depot in September 1950.

How about combining good old quotas with trendy KPIs for a different effect?

MY dad was a police officer. During the Emergency, he was the Special Branch officer in the communist-infested area of Labis and Segamat, Johor.