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Woman cop jailed for accepting $50 bribe from colleague
Published on Oct 18, 2011
By Elena Chong
A female police officer was jailed for six months on Tuesday for accepting a $50 bribe from a colleague in return for not reporting him for theft.
Norhasidah Mohamed Said, 30, who is now nine weeks' pregnant, was also ordered to pay a penalty of $50, being the amount of bribe she took.
She was a sergeant attached to Ang Mo Kio North Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC) when she went on an unauthorised raid with five others in a forested area off Upper Thomson Road on Jan 24, 2009.
Norhasidah's partner and team leader Elvilin Tay Sheo Tang, now 37, found a stack of $50 notes, 13 packets of contraband cigarettes and a few mobile phones at a living quarters. The officers managed to arrest a suspected illegal immigrant while three others escaped.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
