by Elena Chong
A FULL-TIME national service police officer who fiddled with his
service revolver and fired a shot was jailed for one month on
Wednesday.
Mohamed Sikandar Shah Ismathinoon, 22, was attached to the VIP
Complex at Changi Airport on May 22 when he committed a
life-endangering rash act.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Winston Man said Sikandar was
performing sentry duties that evening when his Taurus revolver with
the lanyard attached to his uniform got entangled with the cocking
hammer of the weapon.
He managed to disentangle it and instead of holstering the
revolver, he cocked the weapon out of mischief.
He placed his finger on the trigger and his thumb on the coking
hammer of the service revolver .
DPP Man said he slowly squeezed the trigger to uncock the
revolver but his thumb slipped and he misfired. The bullet hit a
glass panel of the sentry post.
In a similar case last month, District Judge Low Wee Ping
sentenced former full-time national service special constable Ahmad
Sulaiman Perwira, 21, to a month's jail for playing a prank on his
colleagues at Transport Command base, Paya Lebar Road, on Feb
22.
He had pointed a revolver at his colleagues thinking it was
empty but the weapon went off, luckily without hitting anyone.
Sikandar could have been jailed for up to six months and/or
fined up to $2,500 for committing a rash act.