{"id":2996,"date":"2001-06-11T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2001-06-11T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:47:29","slug":"singapore-soccer-player-refuses-mandatory-lie-detector-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/11\/singapore-soccer-player-refuses-mandatory-lie-detector-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: Soccer Player Refuses Mandatory Lie Detector Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Patwant Singh reports for MediaCorps News in an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/sg.cna.mediacorpnews.com\/articles\/2001\/06\/12\/sportsnews62675.htm\">&#8220;S.League: Clementi goalkeeper refuses mandatory lie-detector test.&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Clementi Khalsa goalkeeper Shamsuri Ahmad has become the first player to refuse a mandatory polygraph test and was called up for a disciplinary committee inquiry by the Football Association of Singapore on Monday.<\/p><p>&#8230;<\/p><p>FAS had recently introduced mandatory polygraph testing for all players and officials in an effort to stamp out corruption in soccer.<\/p><p>As part of the code of conduct, all players and officials must sign an undertaking agreeing to be subjected to the lie-detector test.<\/p><p>Since the start of this season, players and officials have been picked at random for the test.<\/p><p>&#8230;<\/p><p>Shamsuri could be deregistered, or face a fine or suspension, if he continues to refuse to take the test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Polygraph &#8220;testing,&#8221; which is fundamentally dependent on trickery, has built-in bias against the truthful, and yet is easily defeated through the use of countermeasures, is a strange way to try to &#8220;stamp out corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patwant Singh reports for MediaCorps News in an article entitled &#8220;S.League: Clementi goalkeeper refuses mandatory lie-detector test.&#8221; Excerpt: Clementi Khalsa goalkeeper Shamsuri Ahmad has become the first player to refuse a mandatory polygraph test and was called up for a disciplinary committee inquiry by the Football Association of Singapore on Monday. &#8230; FAS had recently &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[331,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-2996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-singapore","8":"tag-sports","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}