Man charged for acting as police lookout
Lianhe Wanbao
Two men working as lookouts for Geylang pimps have been convicted in court.
Lin Feng Yuan (57, odd job worker) gets paid $100 a day to watch the police for 12 hours a day.
He parks his vehicle at the Singapore General Hospital, about 100 metres from the Police Cantonment Complex. From there, he watches police movements with a pair of nightvision binoculars.
Lin is familiar with the vehicles used by police and will quickly inform the prostitution syndicates in Geylang once the authorities make any move.
After being informed, the pimps and prostitutes know stay low and avoid police raids.
Lin has been arrested on 20 August last year, together with his accomplice Gan Lian Kai, 24.
But that did not deter Lin from returning to his job as a lookout.
He was arrested again at about 11.30pm on 31 May this year, in Geylang Lorong 8.
He had been riding a motorised bicycle through Geylang to look out for police activity.
He had discovered a patrolling police car and had reported his finding to 12 pimps, who pay him $10 each.
He was soon discovered tailing the police and arrested at Geylang Lorong 31.
Lin has been fined $8,000 and his accomplice, Gan, was fined $2,000 in July this year.
Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 1 December 2011.
