In Britain, a rise in the number of supposedly disabled claimants seems to have coincided with tighter policing of access to unemployment benefit.
The stick has involved tighter policing of monasteries, controls on visits to Lhasa, denunciations of the Dalai Lama and arrests of dissidents.
But changes are needed, including tighter policing practices and credible definitions of those obviously walking, talking and spending like political pros.
Since 2007 the price of a kilogram of cocaine at the border has increased from £30,000 to around £55,000, driven by a falling pound, weaker production in Colombia and tighter policing of trade routes from Jamaica and the Spanish coast.
And with tighter policing of the market for individual bonds, along with the proliferation of open- and closed-end muni mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, there are many cost-effective ways to invest.
It has taken a series of emergency steps, from tighter policing of Jewish sites to quicker investigation and prosecution of hate crimes to proposing a heightened focus on the Holocaust in the public school curriculum.
But others, like the one here, started from a garbage fire a generation ago before strict recycling laws saw to tighter policing of old mine shafts that served as local dumps.
Some mobile phone users said they had had trouble sending ordinary text messages around the 15th anniversary of the June 4 , 1989 crackdown on democracy demonstrations in Beijing, perhaps because of tighter policing of the service.
Indeed, as illustrated by Theresa May's modern slavery bill, the government's preferred response to the accepted idea that there are 29 million slaves in the world is tighter policing, tougher sentencing, harsher immigration policies, and ever stricter border controls.
Mr. Patel has also always been given tight police security.
