{"id":31460,"date":"2026-02-25T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31460"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:35","slug":"police-investigating-report-of-suspicious-person-seen-in-upper-thomson-near-recent-break-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31460","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating report of suspicious person seen in Upper Thomson near recent break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 The police are in the midst of identifying a person who was reportedly seen in a landed estate in Upper Thomson, near where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/upper-thomson-home-broken-into-on-feb-21-is-second-landed-property-in-the-area-to-be-hit-in-days?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">two homes were recently broken into<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, with the intruders leaving before their arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a media reply, the police said they received a call for assistance <!-- -->at about 2pm<!-- --> about a suspicious person sighted near <!-- -->Soo Chow View.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Investigations are ongoing and the police advise the public to call 999 immediately if they see anyone behaving suspiciously in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Soo Chow View is about a minute\u2019s drive from the home in Marigold Drive that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/police-looking-for-suspect-who-trespassed-into-house-in-upper-thomson?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">broken into on the night of Feb 21<\/p>\n<p><\/a> by someone wearing a balaclava, who left after an occupant screamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It followed a Feb 17 incident where a person allegedly broke into a home in Taman Permata and left before the police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Taman Permata is about a four-minute drive from Marigold Drive. All three roads are near the Central Catchment Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Mr Chee Hong Tat, who is the MP for the area, thanked the police for increasing their presence in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe have requested SPF (Singapore Police Force) to install more CCTVs and increase their patrols and drone surveillance, including for the forested areas behind the houses,\u201d said Mr Chee, who is also the National Development Minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cResidents have also formed community watch groups to raise awareness and vigilance, and to look out for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/police-investigating-report-of-suspicious-person-seen-in-upper-thomson-estate-near-recent-break-ins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 The police are in the midst of identifying a person who was reportedly seen in a landed estate in Upper Thomson, near where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}