[h=1]POLICEMAN WHO STOLE $100 FROM PERSON IN CUSTODY JAILED 3 MONTHS[/h]
Post date:
19 Jan 2015 - 10:58pm
A policeman stole $100 from a person-in-custody and was jailed three months today for it.
Desmond Soh Wei Feng, 22, was with the Bedok police division. He was to register the property of a person-in-custody on June 18 last year. This was also his assigned duty.
The usual procedure was that while one policeman was to account for the property, another office would also watch by the side to act as a "witness for accountability".
The property registration officer, which Soh's duty was, was to lay out the belongings of the person-in-custody in front of him, then take a photograph of them. The officer would then need to save the photograph and print it out. He would also need to write in a registration form the items in the photograph and attach the photograph to the form.
These items would then need to be sealed in a bag where the person-in-custody and the witnessing officer would watch over as well.
But that morning, Soh took the belongings of the 49-year-old-man, then asked the man and the witnessing officer to sign on three copies of the form.
He then put the things into the bag and seal it, but also asked Special Constable Mohamed Hafeez Khan Mohamed Sulaiman to bring the man to the cell.
But this is not what the usual procedure is. Soh was planning to take the money.
After the two left, Soh then took two $50 notes out from the man's belongings. He put the two notes into his pocket and passed the bag to the registration officer.
Soh later spent $70 on meals, cigarettes and petrol. $30 was recovered from him during investigations. He later returned the $70.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Lim said that Soh's duty was to uphold the law but instead, he had abused his position of trust. Law enforcement officers are expected to to have a higher standard of conduct of honesty and integrity and any offences conducted are treated very seriously.
Soh has since been removed from the police force. He would have been jailed up to seven years and/or fined.
Post date:
19 Jan 2015 - 10:58pm
A policeman stole $100 from a person-in-custody and was jailed three months today for it.
Desmond Soh Wei Feng, 22, was with the Bedok police division. He was to register the property of a person-in-custody on June 18 last year. This was also his assigned duty.
The usual procedure was that while one policeman was to account for the property, another office would also watch by the side to act as a "witness for accountability".
The property registration officer, which Soh's duty was, was to lay out the belongings of the person-in-custody in front of him, then take a photograph of them. The officer would then need to save the photograph and print it out. He would also need to write in a registration form the items in the photograph and attach the photograph to the form.
These items would then need to be sealed in a bag where the person-in-custody and the witnessing officer would watch over as well.
But that morning, Soh took the belongings of the 49-year-old-man, then asked the man and the witnessing officer to sign on three copies of the form.
He then put the things into the bag and seal it, but also asked Special Constable Mohamed Hafeez Khan Mohamed Sulaiman to bring the man to the cell.
But this is not what the usual procedure is. Soh was planning to take the money.
After the two left, Soh then took two $50 notes out from the man's belongings. He put the two notes into his pocket and passed the bag to the registration officer.
Soh later spent $70 on meals, cigarettes and petrol. $30 was recovered from him during investigations. He later returned the $70.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Lim said that Soh's duty was to uphold the law but instead, he had abused his position of trust. Law enforcement officers are expected to to have a higher standard of conduct of honesty and integrity and any offences conducted are treated very seriously.
Soh has since been removed from the police force. He would have been jailed up to seven years and/or fined.
