SINGAPORE The police said on Tuesday (April 14) it does not conduct checks at residential units to enforce Singapores elevated safe distancing measures.
In a media statement, the police said it was aware of messages circulating via text messaging platforms that give the false impression that the Police are proactively conducting checks at residential units to enforce the elevated safe distancing measures.
This is not true. The Police urge the public not to spread unsubstantiated information which may cause public alarm, it added.
On Monday, the Mothership website ran a story, quoting a Twitter user, which claimed that a resident in Singapore had received a warning letter from the police for visiting his mother in Jurong West.
In a series of tweets, the Twitter user @_fitch_ claimed to be the brother of the man who was given the warning letter, and said that the police was doing random checks and saw quite a few of us in the living room.
In its statement, the police said it had received a call for assistance on April 11 for a family dispute and had responded at about 9.55pm to the case at a residential unit located at Jurong West Avenue 1.
During the engagement, police officers had discovered that there was a gathering of family members, in particular two who were not from the household living in the unit.
These two were the man who had called for police assistance, and his wife, the police said in its statement, which noted that the family living at the unit included the callers mother, his uncle and other family members.
The Police officers therefore issued a warning to the couple who was not residing there and was not there for an essential purpose, for not complying with the elevated safe distancing measures under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020, the police said.
The police reiterated that they do not proactively conduct checks at residential units specifically to enforce these measures.
Nonetheless, if the police come across anyone flouting elevated safe distancing measures when attending to other types of incidents at residential units reported by the public, such as the case of family dispute (in Jurong West Avenue 1), the police will take enforcement action, said the police.
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In a media statement, the police said it was aware of messages circulating via text messaging platforms that give the false impression that the Police are proactively conducting checks at residential units to enforce the elevated safe distancing measures.
This is not true. The Police urge the public not to spread unsubstantiated information which may cause public alarm, it added.
On Monday, the Mothership website ran a story, quoting a Twitter user, which claimed that a resident in Singapore had received a warning letter from the police for visiting his mother in Jurong West.
In a series of tweets, the Twitter user @_fitch_ claimed to be the brother of the man who was given the warning letter, and said that the police was doing random checks and saw quite a few of us in the living room.
In its statement, the police said it had received a call for assistance on April 11 for a family dispute and had responded at about 9.55pm to the case at a residential unit located at Jurong West Avenue 1.
During the engagement, police officers had discovered that there was a gathering of family members, in particular two who were not from the household living in the unit.
These two were the man who had called for police assistance, and his wife, the police said in its statement, which noted that the family living at the unit included the callers mother, his uncle and other family members.
The Police officers therefore issued a warning to the couple who was not residing there and was not there for an essential purpose, for not complying with the elevated safe distancing measures under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020, the police said.
The police reiterated that they do not proactively conduct checks at residential units specifically to enforce these measures.
Nonetheless, if the police come across anyone flouting elevated safe distancing measures when attending to other types of incidents at residential units reported by the public, such as the case of family dispute (in Jurong West Avenue 1), the police will take enforcement action, said the police.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapor...medium=twitter