SINGAPORE: A former officer from AETOS Security
Consultants was on Monday jailed two years for offences including
asking an underage girl to either have sex with him or give him
money after he had caught her smoking and
littering.
Twenty-six-year-old Eddie Quek Yu Meng, who used to
be attached to the National Environment Agency (NEA) as an
enforcement officer, spotted the 15-year-old student committing the
offences near Woodlands Civic Centre at around 5pm on October 31,
2008.
He took down her particulars but instead of
reporting her to the relevant authorities, released her on the
spot.
Quek later called the girl on February 10, 2009 and pretended to be
an NEA officer, even though he had already left AETOS in November
2008.
The pair met up at Block 365 Woodlands Avenue 1 at around 4pm where
the girl pleaded with Quek not to inform her parents and school
about her offences.
Quek asked what she could give him in return for helping her.
He claimed a girl once had sex with him while a boy paid him after
he agreed to help them.
The 15-year-old girl refused to have sex with him and she made a
police report after telling her boyfriend about her ordeal.
Besides this, Quek had also accepted a S$50 bribe from an unknown
Chinese man whom he had caught littering near Woodlands MRT station
in September 2008.
This, in exchange for not taking enforcement action against the
man.
Quek had also used a forged Singapore-Cambridge GCE O Level
certificate on November 13, 2007 to apply for a job at a
bookshop.
He had found the original document in a pile of discarded items
near a lift and decided to use it even though he did not even
complete his primary school education.
Quek then pasted his own name onto the certificate and made a copy
of it before applying for the job.
The tanned, bespectacled man had also been caught with two other
forged documents in his possession.
One of them had the Singapore Police Force logo on its
letterhead.
It contained instructions on how a strip search was supposedly
conducted on both men and women.
The other bogus document was a blank Notice to Attend Court,
purportedly signed by a Certis CISCO officer.
For asking the girl for gratification, Quek could have been jailed
up to five years, fined a maximum of S$100,000 or both.
And for being in possession of the forged documents, for each
charge, he could have been jailed up to four years and fined.
-CNA/wk