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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->LOAN sharks vandalised our home, splashing green paint on the door and unit number and writing their contact number on the walls and floor.
We called the number, only to be told to pay up. We tried to explain that we were not the debtors. As we bought our new flat direct from the Housing Board, the unit had no previous occupants.
The loan sharks refused to believe we were the sole occupants. Subsequently, they revealed the full name and IC number of their target, insisted that the debtor lived in our unit and demanded that we tell her to pay the $2,000 owed.
The police were swift to record our statements. The follow-up was less satisfactory. When we wanted to charge the debtor with falsifying the address on her IC, an officer at the neighbourhood police post told us we would have to lodge a magistrate's complaint. This could be done only by contacting the investigating officer at the Criminal Investigation Department. We have been unable to contact the investigating officer, despite many attempts.
When we asked for permission to install a closed-circuit TV outside our door to prevent more attacks, the HDB officer in charge was on leave. Surely another officer should be assigned to cover his position when he is on leave?
Should justice and safety not be swiftly addressed, rather than be ponderously bureaucratic? Edwin Ng
KNN! I so bz shadowing CSJ and co., so donch kar cheow me with your silly loan shark ploblem! *chey*
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->LOAN sharks vandalised our home, splashing green paint on the door and unit number and writing their contact number on the walls and floor.
We called the number, only to be told to pay up. We tried to explain that we were not the debtors. As we bought our new flat direct from the Housing Board, the unit had no previous occupants.
The loan sharks refused to believe we were the sole occupants. Subsequently, they revealed the full name and IC number of their target, insisted that the debtor lived in our unit and demanded that we tell her to pay the $2,000 owed.
The police were swift to record our statements. The follow-up was less satisfactory. When we wanted to charge the debtor with falsifying the address on her IC, an officer at the neighbourhood police post told us we would have to lodge a magistrate's complaint. This could be done only by contacting the investigating officer at the Criminal Investigation Department. We have been unable to contact the investigating officer, despite many attempts.
When we asked for permission to install a closed-circuit TV outside our door to prevent more attacks, the HDB officer in charge was on leave. Surely another officer should be assigned to cover his position when he is on leave?
Should justice and safety not be swiftly addressed, rather than be ponderously bureaucratic? Edwin Ng
KNN! I so bz shadowing CSJ and co., so donch kar cheow me with your silly loan shark ploblem! *chey*
