Home Team Volunteers Network

The Home Team Volunteer Network (HTVN) is a volunteer organisation in Singapore.

Home Team Volunteer Network
Founded15 July 2011
FounderMinistry of Home Affairs (Singapore)
TypeGovernment
FocusLaw Enforcement, Civil Defense, Rehabilitation (penology) and Advisory board
Location
  • HomeTeamNS-JOM @ Balestier at 31 Ah Hood Road, Level 3, Singapore 329979
Area served
Singapore
OwnerMinistry of Home Affairs (Singapore)
Key people
Ho Peng Kee
Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs)
Heads of Home Team Departments
Employees
~10
Volunteers
16,000
Websitewww.htv.gov.sg

It was launched by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Teo Chee Hean, at the Home Team Convention on 15 July 2011.[1] The Network is an entity that promotes the implementation of volunteer management best practices for the benefit of Home Team volunteers and is also the key channel through which the Ministry of Home Affairs engages its volunteers. The HTVN comes under the ambit of the Ministry of Home Affairs and does not raise funds from the public for whatever purposes.

The Steering Committee

The Steering Committee of the HTVN is an advisory body on Home Team volunteer matters.

The Steering Committee is appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs for a 2-year term or as otherwise specified, and comprises both Home Team key appointment holders as well as existing Home Team volunteers.

Home Team Volunteer Schemes

Home Team Volunteers broadly refer to people who volunteer in a volunteer scheme within the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Home Team Volunteers are classified by the Ministry under two broad categories. They either serve as members of its Boards, Councils and Committees, known also as the Home Team Connection, or as volunteers within one of its departments.[2] The departments that currently have volunteers are the Singapore Police Force, the Singapore Civil Defence Force, the Singapore Prison Service and the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises, otherwise known as SCORE. Strictly speaking however, it is worth noting that SCORE is not a department but a Statutory Board under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

See also

References
  1. "Home Team celebrates volunteerism". Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  2. "Volunteer Schemes". Archived from the original on 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
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