Woman investigated for making false report about abduction
AsiaOne
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013
SINGAPORE - Police are investigating a 30-year-old woman for making a false police report about her own abduction.
On the evening of January 27, 2013, the woman lodged a report with a foreign embassy here that she had been knocked unconscious and abducted in the vicinity of Yio Chu Kang earlier on in the day.
Upon extensive enquiries and follow-up interviews, officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division established that the woman had made a false report.
Investigations against the subject are on-going. Anyone who is convicted for giving any information which he or she knows to be false to a public servant shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to $5,000, or with both.
Commander of Ang Mo Kio Police Division, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police (DAC) Keok Tong San, commended his officers’ investigative acumen in establishing the credibility of the report. He emphasised the dire consequences of making such untrue reports and wasting police resources that could otherwise have been better deployed to other more urgent cases.
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