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  • 26 Boys’ Home Youths Arrested Over Unruly Behaviour

    26 Boys’ Home Youths Arrested Over Unruly Behaviour

    The events on Monday night were the worst his family had experienced this year.

    There had been occasional disturbances in the past.

    But the father of two primary school children said the noise coming from the Singapore Boys’ Home (SBH) two nights ago kept his family awake for a few hours.

    The 35-year-old accountant, who declined to be named, told The New Paper yesterday: “I couldn’t see what was happening inside SBH but it was definitely serious and loud.

    “The shouting of vulgarities and banging sounds went on for a few hours. The shouting stopped briefly and started all over again, several times into the morning.

    “It sounded as if there were different groups of boys doing the shouting.”

    As it turned out, 26 residents at the Singapore Boys’ Home were arrested for unlawful assembly on Tuesday morning.

    SBH is a juvenile residential home in Jurong run by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).

    It houses at-risk young people aged between 12 and 21 who might also have got into trouble with the law.

    TNP understands the 26 residents involved were unhappy with issues at the Home and created a ruckus by throwing items out of windows.

    The reason behind their unhappiness with the Home is not known.

    The accountant, who lives in a nearby block of flats, had called TNP yesterday to share what residents living close to SBH had experienced.

    The man said: “The school term has started, and I hope something can be done at SBH because my children will not get their rest if this happens again.”

    While on his way to work yesterday morning, the accountant said he saw a red riot police vehicle parked in front of SBH.

    When TNP contacted St Joseph’s Canossian Convent, located next to SBH, a spokesman said it had temporarily moved to Mandai due to renovation works and was unable to comment about the incident.

    A police spokesman told TNP they received a call requesting for assistance at around midnight. No one was injured and the police are investigating the incident.

    An MSF spokesman confirmed the incident with The New Paper yesterday.

    The spokesman said: “An incident involving unruly behaviour occurred in the Singapore Boys’ Home at 11pm on Sept 19 which required the involvement of the police.”

    He added MSF had taken steps to ensure the well-being of SBH residents and were assisting the police with investigations.

    MSF did not address questions about the cause of the incident.

    Last year, there were 215 boys admitted to the Home.

    It is gazetted as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre for youth offenders dealt with by the Youth Court, which deals with offenders below 16 years old.

    The Home is designated a Place of Safety for those admitted on a Beyond Parental Control Order, a Child Protection Order, or under the Women’s Charter.

    According to the MSF’s website, the youths go through structured routines and programmes for their development, such as academic or vocational training, recreational activities and community service.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Policeman Admits Taking $35,000 From Suspect

    Policeman Admits Taking $35,000 From Suspect

    A police officer has admitted receiving $35,000 in bribes to help a man avoid being charged with taking upskirt videos.

    Staff Sergeant Woo Poh Liang, 29, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two corruption charges as well as six unrelated charges of buying illegal 4-D lottery tickets, placing bets with a bookmaker on the 2014 World Cup and acting as a runner for a bookmaker.

    Woo was an investigation officer at Clementi Police Division when he took bribes from Filipino Angelo Salvador Beltran, 45, in 2014.

    He has been suspended from service since January last year.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Norman Yew said that on Sept 10, 2014, Woo took a statement from Beltran who had been caught taking an upskirt video at Jurong East MRT station on May 22.

    Although a large number of upskirt videos were found on Beltran’s devices, Woo suggested writing in Beltran’s statement that he had taken just five of them.

    Beltran went with the number as he understood that Woo was trying to do something favourable for him.

    Six days later, Beltran handed a psychiatric report to Woo, who told him that his case was very serious.

    Woo asked Beltran if they could trust each other, and Beltran said “yes”. He then told Beltran that his father was sick with cancer, and asked him for $100,000.

    When Beltran said he had only $35,000, Woo asked for all the money that he had and Beltran said he would withdraw it the next day.

    Woo then asked for $25,000 to be given to him the next day, in $1,000 bills. Beltran agreed as he knew that, in return, Woo would help him to avoid being charged.

    On Sept 17, Beltran withdrew $25,000 and $10,000 from two bank accounts. Beltran handed the $25,000 in an envelope to Woo at a taxi stand, along with a letter requesting the return of his passport.

    Later that day, Beltran texted Woo to say that he was required to travel to the United States for training the following week. Woo told him to bring a letter from his company to the police station.

    When Beltran arrived, Woo told him that he could not get his passport back.

    He took Beltran to an interview room and asked him how much money he had. When Beltran said he had only $10,000 left, Woo asked for the sum as well. Beltran then handed it over and Woo told him he had a “90 to 95 per cent chance of getting a warning”.

    But the Attorney-General’s Chambers did not accept a recommendation that Beltran be given a stern warning. Woo told Beltran the next day that he would be charged, but that he would help him to get a lighter sentence.

    On Sept 25 the same year, acting on his lawyer’s advice, Beltran complained to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau about Woo’s conduct. Woo’s lawyer Nakoorsha A.K. will give his mitigation plea on Oct 11. The maximum punishment for corruption is a $100,000 fine and five years’ jail on each charge.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Do Not Return Calls From Numbers Starting With ‘999’: Police On Latest Phone Scam

    Do Not Return Calls From Numbers Starting With ‘999’: Police On Latest Phone Scam

    If you receive a missed call starting with the numbers ‘999’, do not call back, the Singapore Police Force advised on Wednesday (July 6).

    Some members of the public have been receiving unknown missed calls, starting with the numbers ‘999X XXXX’, on their mobile phones, police said in a post on Facebook.

    When return calls were made, they reach the 999 police emergency hotline instead.

    Police said these calls from unknown origins should be ignored, as “Caller ID spoofing technology may be used to mask the actual phone number and display a different number”.

    Members of the public can call the police hotline at 1800-255 0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.

    They should only dial 999 if urgent police assistance is required, police said.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Police Clerk Admits To Leaking Confidential Details Of Traffic Accident Victims

    Police Clerk Admits To Leaking Confidential Details Of Traffic Accident Victims

    A former Singapore Police Force clerk pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Jun 7) to five charges under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for divulging privileged information to an unlikely accomplice – an employee of a law firm.

    Khatijah A Manap, 61, also pleaded guilty to three counts under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) for receiving at least S$2,500 in bribes from legal executive Gulzar Raja Singh Sandhu, 69, in exchange for contact details of people involved in traffic accidents.

    Another 23 charges – 18 under the OSA and five under the PCA – will be taken into consideration during sentencing.

    The duo met in 2008, when Khatijah was herself involved in a traffic accident. She was put in touch with Raja by a relative, and he in turn introduced her to his daughter, a lawyer at Clifford Law LLP. Khatijah told Raja then that she was working as a clerk in the investigation branch of the Traffic Police.

    As a clerk, Khatijah had access to traffic accident investigation papers, including the personal and contact details of those involved.

    When the two bumped into each other again more than two years later at the Traffic Police headquarters, Raja asked Khatijah if she wanted to work together by giving him the contact details of traffic accident victims.

    Raja offered to pay her S$200 for every successful “contact” – traffic accident victims who engaged the law firm to act for them in compensation claims. Khatijah agreed, and eventually pocketed at least S$2,500 from the scheme, Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told the court.

    She would randomly pick “victims”, copying their details down on a piece of rough paper which she would destroy after communicating these to Raja, the court heard.

    Either Khatijah or Raja would then contact the victim to inform them they could lodge a compensation claim, and engage Raja’s daughter, a lawyer at the firm, to do so. In some cases, Raja told victims he had obtained their contact details from a police officer, or an employee of the Traffic Police.

    Their offences came to light in 2013, after a traffic accident victim – who was contacted by the pair twice in two years regarding separate accidents – complained to Khatijah’s boss.

    In 2012, Mr Haresh Vishindas Chandiramani was involved in a traffic accident and was contacted by Khatijah, using the alias “Azizah”. Azizah informed Mr Chandiramani he could seek compensation, and arranged for Raja to visit the man at his home.

    At Mr Chandiramani’s home later that day, Raja admitted he had an arrangement to obtain contact details of accident victims from “someone at Traffic Police for a fee”, the court heard. Mr Chandiramani told Raja to leave.

    About a year later, in 2013, Mr Chandiramani was involved in another accident. He again received a call from Azizah, claiming to be an employee of Clifford Law LLP. She advised Mr Chandiramani to engage the firm – specifically, Raja’s daughter – if he wanted to seek compensation.

    Azizah then offered to set up a meeting with her paralegal, Raja, but was cut off by Mr Chandiramani over the phone. He immediately called Khatijah’s office, and asked why she had disclosed his number to “an outsider”. She explained that she and Azizah were, in fact, the same person.

    Mr Chandiramani warned Khatijah that what she was doing was against the law, and complained to her boss, who advised him to lodge a police report.

    For breaching the Official Secrets Act, Khatijah could be sentenced to up to two years’ jail and a fine of up to S$2,000. For receiving bribes, she could be jailed for up to five years and/or fined up to S$100,000.

    Investigations against Raja are ongoing.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Man, 52, Arrested For Production Of Counterfeit S$50 Notes

    Man, 52, Arrested For Production Of Counterfeit S$50 Notes

    A 52-year-old man believed to be have made and used counterfeit S$50 notes has been arrested.

    At about 10am last Thursday (May 26), the Police received a report that counterfeit notes were being presented for payment at a convenience store in Hougang Street 91.

    After extensive ground enquiries to establish the suspect’s identity, officers from the Hougang Neighbourhood Police Centre arrested the suspect later that afternoon along Hougang Ave 8.

    A printer, a bag and several S$50 bills, which are believed to be counterfeit, were seized as case exhibits, said the Singapore Police Force on Tuesday.

    The counterfeit notes, which are believed to be photocopied reproductions, lack security features such as watermarks (an image that can be seen when held up to the light), and security-thread (thread that is interwoven in the paper running vertically down) found on genuine notes.

    To date, the counterfeit notes in the cases reported bear the following four serial numbers:

    • 5DC995967
    • 4KT595133
    • 4AX921719
    • 4LB831932However, members of the public are advised to be on the alert for counterfeit notes of different serial numbers, the Police said. Upon receipt of a suspected counterfeit note, the Police advise the following measures:
      • Delay the presenter, if possible, and call 999 immediately
      • Observe the presenter’s description, such as gender, race, age, height, build, attire, tattoo marks, ear studs, language/dialect spoken, and if he has any companions
      • Note the vehicle registration number (if any), and
      • Limit the handling of the suspected note and place it in a protective covering, such as an envelope, to prevent any tampering and hand it over to the Police immediately.

      Police investigations are ongoing. Anyone convicted of using counterfeit currency notes as genuine faces a jail term of up to 20 years, as well as a fine.

    Source: TODAY Online