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5 hours ago, kobayashiGT said:

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Source: https://mothership.sg/2023/01/police-nsf-tiktok-teammates-handcuffs-3-weeks-jail/

A full-time national serviceman policeman, Amirudin Shah Zainal, posted a TikTok video with a photo of his teammate in handcuffs as the background.

The 23-year-old also abused his access to the police computer system to retrieve information about his teammate's criminal matter.

An anonymous informant submitted an i-Witness form via the Singapore Police Force's (SPF) website on Jul. 30, 2021 after the TikTok was shared to others.

On Jan. 25, Amirudin pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Misuse Act for unauthorised access to data held in the computer system of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

He was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.

Accessing teammate's criminal file

Amirudin was enlisted in the SPF on Jan. 4, 2020.

He was posted to the Public Transport Security Command Headquarters (TransCom HQ) on Mar. 19, 2020.

At TransCom HQ, he was assigned the task of keying in the details of fresh incidents in SPF’s computerised record system, CUBICON 2.

CUBICON 2 is a computer system of the MHA.

According to court documents, Amirudin was given login access to CUBICON 2 around July 2020 for official duties.

He was aware that he was not authorised to access cases that he was not assigned to on CUBICON 2.

Amirudin discovered his teammate was arrested on suspicion of committing an offence and with a specific incident number.

On Jan. 28, he logged on to CUBICON 2 to do his work and accessed his teammate's criminal matter using the specific incident numbers.

From there, Amirudin found a photo of his teammate in handcuffs in a lock-up room. This photo was not meant to be made public.

Amirudin took a picture of the teammate in cuffs using his handphone.

He then sent the photo to a WhatsApp group chat that consisted of 17 other NSF police officers who were all part of Amirudin's team at TransComHQ.

None of these officers had the authorisation to access that particular teammate's criminal matter.

Subsequently, on Feb. 17, Amirudin showed his colleague the photo of his teammate in cuffs.

He then suggested they make a TikTok using the photo as the background and a song featured in the movie "15", which is about teenage gangsters in Singapore.

The motive of the video was to make fun of his teammate.

The video was 8 seconds long and posted to Amirudin's TikTok account.

Amirudin and his colleague were both in their SPF uniform as they performed hand signs while lipsyncing to the song.

The video has since been taken down.

The TikTok was then shared with another WhatsApp group, which included two other full-time NSFs, and the previous WhatsApp group.

On Feb. 24, Amirudin sent the TikTok video again to the WhatsApp group.

Anonymous tip

An anonymous informant submitted an i-Witness form via SPF's website on Jul. 30, 2021.

The informant wrote: "how come singapore policeman can take videos with temasek poly student in handcuff and chant this kind of thing [sic]."

The TikTok video was attached to the form.

Investigations revealed that aside from Jan. 28, 2021, Amirudin used his account to access his teammate's criminal file on CUBICON 2 four other times.

The court documents pointed out that Amirudin had no authority at any point during the five occasions to access his teammate's criminal matter.

Prosecution request for imprisonment

The prosecution requested that Amirudin be sentenced to three to six weeks' jail.

The deputy public prosecutor Samuel Chew pointed out that Amirudin knowingly abused his position of trust as a public servant.

In addition, Amirudin sent the photo to two WhatsApp groups on several occasions to people not authorised to view such sensitive information, which "could have compromised the integrity of police investigations".

The TikTok video further "escalated the risk of the photograph being further disseminated to the broader public," said Chew.

Amirudin's motive behind the video was also described as "completely frivolous" as he deliberately accessed his teammates' criminal matter and used a picture of his teammate in handcuffs to "make a parody video to make fun of [him]".

Amirudin's deliberate access was not a one-off offence as he made unauthorised access on CUBICON2 on five separate occasions over four months.

As such, Chew asked for Amirudin's imprisonment to "send a strong signal to deter police officers from abusing their positions and going beyond their scope of authority for unauthorised purposes".

 

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1 hour ago, PSP415 said:

Was just chatting with a friend recently that these days, parents very relaxed one.

Common excuse for allowing "kids" to do as they pleased : "They happy can liao. Dun interefe"

To avoid confrontation and disagreement, they choose the easiest way out. They missed out on the guiding, teaching and advising part as parents, especially when kids are growing up.

Oh, it's the teacher's job. Then when teacher disciplines, it's kpkb on social media child kena abused, traumatised, not going to school liao. Sue here sue there. 

The bonding that comes from the guiding, teaching and advising is passed on to computer games, socia media and questionable group of friends. 

Seen a table of 2 adults, 2 kids waiting for food? All glued to mobile phone. If kid is young, he/she will be watching a cartoon on ipad. Silence. No human conversation. Eerie. 

 

The problem is that these kids will grow up to be very social inept..... meaning no social skills when they come out to work and have to meet people.

Then when some encounter minor issues with colleagues/bosses at work, they fall into depression easily because they dun know how to resolve human issues. This is why we hear so many mental health issues these days that even corporate HR has to pay attention to this matter now.

IMO, it all started with parents allowing their kids to indulge in mobile/mobile games all the time even during dinner or family bonding events.

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5 minutes ago, Fitvip said:

Sure no more reservist?

@Fitvip 

Got a friend.......after he went to jail...........then no more reservist as he was not called up for any reservist anymore.........

but this was many years ago.................

Not sure about now

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5 minutes ago, Mahjong74 said:

@Fitvip 

Got a friend.......after he went to jail...........then no more reservist as he was not called up for any reservist anymore.........

but this was many years ago.................

Not sure about now

Ok thanks.

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7 hours ago, Benarsenal said:

This is what happen when you put immature youngsters in positions of authority.

Honestly I think roles like police and SCDF should not be part of NS. They should be fully professional, with proper training and proper pay. After all, what they do is literally a matter of life and death and impacts society greatly. 

I think when it comes to NS be it where ever the immature youngsters are sent to it is a danger to everyone around them.

I mean we have seen the things that happen in the army as well. Dunno about navy and airforce. Young chaps given the rank and responsibility but still do childish things. But then again we need the manpower. I think we are seeing more and more police officers getting into trouble with the law. This is not new. Same for those serving NS in the army. The death caused by smoke grenade shows just how immature the regular officers are. These fools will be there whether we like it or not.

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22 minutes ago, Watwheels said:

I think when it comes to NS be it where ever the immature youngsters are sent to it is a danger to everyone around them.

I mean we have seen the things that happen in the army as well. Dunno about navy and airforce. Young chaps given the rank and responsibility but still do childish things. But then again we need the manpower. I think we are seeing more and more police officers getting into trouble with the law. This is not new. Same for those serving NS in the army. The death caused by smoke grenade shows just how immature the regular officers are. These fools will be there whether we like it or not.

It's modern society coddling the children that's the root cause of this problem. Resulting in slowing down of the maturing process. Nowadays you see singles in 30s still staying with parents and still with the "kid" status. How to grow up properly?

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1 hour ago, Sosaria said:

It's modern society coddling the children that's the root cause of this problem. Resulting in slowing down of the maturing process. Nowadays you see singles in 30s still staying with parents and still with the "kid" status. How to grow up properly?

Are you going to kick your kids out of the house once they start working?
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3 hours ago, Sosaria said:

It's modern society coddling the children that's the root cause of this problem. Resulting in slowing down of the maturing process. Nowadays you see singles in 30s still staying with parents and still with the "kid" status. How to grow up properly?

Policy too. Singles literally cannot move out before 35 unless they filthy rich to buy private property or rent (not cheap).

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On 1/26/2023 at 10:42 AM, Mahjong74 said:

@kobayashiGT 

1 good thing for this stupid Police NSF is...............No more Reservist for him 

really? won't he get transferred to SCDF or somewhere else? 

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On 1/26/2023 at 11:00 PM, inlinesix said:

Are you going to kick your kids out of the house once they start working?
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Hope they get married well, quickly, then buy resale and move out [laugh]

Yet SG is so small, how can kids truly be independent? Family assistance is always an hour's distance away at the most.

This is the disadvantage of our younger generation when compared to their counterparts from foreign countries who are here for study or work.

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