SINGAPORE : A man has been arrested for damaging a
police patrol car.
The 50-year-old suspect smashed the side mirrors of
the car which was parked along Pitt Street in Jalan Besar on Monday
evening.
Police officers had left for anti-crime patrols when
the suspect struck.
On Tuesday morning, police mounted an operation and arrested the
man along Dunlop Street in Little India.
The suspect will be charged in court on Wednesday with
vandalism.
If convicted, he could be jailed up to three years, fined up to
$2,000, and given between three and eight strokes of the
cane.
Assistant Commissioner Tan Hung Hooi, Commander of the Central
Police Division, warned that damaging government property is a
serious offence and anyone found committing such an act would be
dealt with severely.
- CNA/ms