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The Singapore Police has taken action against transnational crime syndicates on its own or in combined operations with the Royal Malaysia Police: Thirteen transnational scam syndicates with the arrest of more than seventy persons (2022). [61] Home rental scams that incurred $1.3 million losses from 480 victims (2023). [63]
Singapore's full-time National Service policy was thus extended to the Singapore Police Force in 1975, which stemmed from the then-primary aim of guarding and protecting key and vital public installations, such as sensitive ones like power substations and petrochemical industries, and to act as a swift-response reserve unit.
Recent episodes also feature information on scams, including mechanisms, statistics and advice from various government agencies and non-governmental organisations, such as those from the Singapore Police Force's Criminal Investigation Department and the National Crime Prevention Council.
Scams these days go beyond Nigerian Princes.This article, Crime rate in Singapore rises ever-so-slightly, but mostly because of scam cases, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading ...
29 March 2024: 28 people residing in Singapore between the ages of 18 and 59 were arrested for various charges relating to child sexual exploitation. For five weeks, the Singapore Police Force collaborated with the Hong Kong Police Force and South Korean National Police Agency to arrest a total of 273 suspects, with the youngest being 12 years ...
A Singaporean police vehicle. In Singapore, law enforcement is principally led by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), and supported by other agencies including the Singapore Prison Service, Central Narcotics Bureau, Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, Internal Security Department, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, and Singapore Customs ...
On 15 August 2023, the Singapore Police Force conducted an operation against money laundering. [1] It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, [2] involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars.
In the mid-2010s, kidnap scams were more proliferate in Singapore than the actual act of kidnapping itself. [1] [2] The Singapore Police Force has set up the Scam Alert web service that keeps Singaporeans informed on the latest scams such as kidnapping scams.