A female police officer was jailed for six months on Tuesday for
accepting a $50 bribe from a colleague in return for not reporting
him for theft.
Norhasidah Mohamed Said, 30, who is now nine weeks' pregnant,
was also ordered to pay a penalty of $50, being the amount of bribe
she took.
She was a sergeant attached to Ang Mo Kio North Neighbourhood
Police Centre (NPC) when she went on an unauthorised raid with five
others in a forested area off Upper Thomson Road on Jan 24,
2009.
Norhasidah's partner and team leader Elvilin Tay Sheo Tang, now
37, found a stack of $50 notes, 13 packets of contraband cigarettes
and a few mobile phones at a living quarters. The officers managed
to arrest a suspected illegal immigrant while three others
escaped
-- ST
