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Dec 8, 2009
Cop jailed over mobile escort
<!-- by line -->By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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AFTER providing a mobile escort to a friend's wedding, a Traffic Police Department cop instructed his subordinates to make false entries in their police patrol log sheets.
Station inspector Aziz Osman, 50, was jailed for two weeks on Tuesday for providing the mobile escort.
Aziz, who has since retired, was also fined a total of $1,500 for instructing the two to provide a mobile escort to Mr John Hooi Tuck Sung, now 39, at his wedding five years ago, and going to Taiwan for a promotional event of Pirelli Tyres without the approval of his department.
The court heard that he failed to reimburse the sponsors for the airfare, meals and accommodation for the April 2004 trip. Six other charges were taken into consideration.
Mr Vijay Kumar told District Judge Liew Thiam Leng that his client, who has more than 30 years' service and commendations to his name, was all along prepared to pay for the Taiwan trip but Mr Hooi kept postponing it. Mr Hooi was then marketing manager of Pirelli Asia, owned by an Italian company.
Under the Police Force Act, Aziz could have been fined up to $500 and/or jailed for up to three months on each of the five proceeded charges.
Cop jailed over mobile escort
<!-- by line -->By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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AFTER providing a mobile escort to a friend's wedding, a Traffic Police Department cop instructed his subordinates to make false entries in their police patrol log sheets.
Station inspector Aziz Osman, 50, was jailed for two weeks on Tuesday for providing the mobile escort.
Aziz, who has since retired, was also fined a total of $1,500 for instructing the two to provide a mobile escort to Mr John Hooi Tuck Sung, now 39, at his wedding five years ago, and going to Taiwan for a promotional event of Pirelli Tyres without the approval of his department.
The court heard that he failed to reimburse the sponsors for the airfare, meals and accommodation for the April 2004 trip. Six other charges were taken into consideration.
Mr Vijay Kumar told District Judge Liew Thiam Leng that his client, who has more than 30 years' service and commendations to his name, was all along prepared to pay for the Taiwan trip but Mr Hooi kept postponing it. Mr Hooi was then marketing manager of Pirelli Asia, owned by an Italian company.
Under the Police Force Act, Aziz could have been fined up to $500 and/or jailed for up to three months on each of the five proceeded charges.
