LAZY POLICEMAN FORGED SUPERVISOR’S SIGNATURE TO AVOID INVESTIGATING OVER 32 CASES
Norazly Joihani, 33, admitted to 14 different charges yesterday in court mostly in relation to forgery with some charges for criminal breach of trust and cheating.
Norazly, a police investigation officer at the Bedok Police Division, had entered false information and forged his supervisor’s signature into his logbook for almost 2 years to make it look like he had done a lot of work when in fact, he had done very little of the recorded work.
The offences occurred between January of 2009 and November of 2010.
Norazly was in charge of investigating police reports which were lodged in his area.
The reports would be assigned to different officers and a panel would give directions on how to go about the investigations.
The officers assigned to certain reports would then go about completing the tasks set out in the directions and their work would be overseen and signed by a supervisor.
Norazly would amend his directions sheet and forge his supervisor’s signature on the amended directions in order to get out of some of the duties assigned to him that day.
By doing this, Norazly would be able to get out of investigating some cases all together and the cases would be left unfinished.
He also forged papers involving the return of items seized during investgiations that he actually carried out.
Usually, personal belonging seized during investigations are kept in the division store and the rightful owners would then sign acknowledgement forms when they were returned their items.
Norazly would force signatures on these forms so that the rightful owners never got their items back and he kept the things himself.
His actions lead to over 32 cases being unresolved and uninvestigated until the discovery of his crime.
The cases involved 6 unnatural deaths, 8 natural causes deaths and 18 active matters.
He was charged with a total of 60 charges but plead guilty to 14. The other 46 will be taken into consideration in sentencing.
He will be sentenced on January 8.
Somethings in that system is very very wrong
