Should the police have followed up on the SMU student stalking case?

[Confuseous]

A bunch of SMU students on Thursday lured the phone stalker of a female student, called the police after holding him.

The NewPaper reported : "Police said that a man in his 50s was interviewed and advised by the police over alleged "unsolicited text messages" sent to a woman in her 20s. No investigations are onging, to the dismay of the students."

Questions:

What is the definition of "advised" in the police context?

It was a simple black and white case of unsolicited text messages. Why "alleged"? Since they were 'interviewing' the suspect, surely, it could be proven, and not alleged? Now it would appear that the victim was making up the matter.

Why did the police investigate whether he was a serial stalker - by conducting necessary checks?

That the suspect actually dared to turn up at SMU on his motorcycle showed that this could be a serious case.

 

[Ramseth]

Even if I'm the IO, I'll classify it no offence according to what's known so far. To qualify under criminial intimidation, some kind of physical threats have to be in the messages. If he every now and then send messages to the girl that she's so beautiful, he loves her and wants to date her etc., what offence is there?

Going through all that stalking exercise is plain silly and wasteful if the purpose is just to call police. Just change the phone number will do. If she's really so fedup and her guy friends want to help, just ambush him, then beat him up. Private matters settle privately, not police case unless they maim or kill him.