Singapore on Tuesday proposed expanding police powers so they can block all communications from the scene of a terror attack to avoid jeopardising security operations, amid fears militants may target the city state. The cosmopolitan financial hub, which was second only to Tokyo in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Safe Cities Index in 2017, says it has been the target of militant plots for years, some stemming from its Muslim-majority neighbors, and that it’s a matter of “when” and not “if” militants will strike.  In 2016, Singapore’s Home Affairs, Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries spent $19.5 billion – slightly more than a quarter of the national Budget – on security. This was a 32 per cent rise from the $14.8 billion spent in 2011.