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A man called several Neighbourhood Police Centres (NPC) over 1,000 times in the span of one week and stayed silent when officers picked up the phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Foo Jia Hong, a 37-year-old Singaporean, was handed a jail sentence of 23 days on Wednesday (Aug 26) after he pleaded guilty to one charge of obstructing police officers at Yishun NPC from carrying out their duties by making silent calls.<\/p>\n Three other charges for similarly making silent calls to Bedok NPC, Geylang NPC and Ang Mo Kio North NPC were taken into consideration during sentencing.<\/p>\n The court heard that Foo had dialled the NPCs between April 21 and 29 for “fun and enjoyment”, reported The Straits Times.<\/p>\n He reportedly used a SIM card which he found in a second-hand mobile phone cover he bought earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n He then used the card to make calls to the NPCs, but remained silent when officers answered.<\/p>\n A total of 1,035 silent calls were made, of which 425 were to Yishun NPC, according to court documents.<\/p>\n Four officers at Yishun NPC answered 330 of his phone calls.<\/p>\n The prosecution said his actions obstructed the phone lines as other calls were placed on hold in a queue, reported CNA.<\/p>\n Foo was arrested on May 11 after officers later established his identity.<\/p>\n The prosecution told the court that Foo has mild intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder, but the Institute of Mental Health did not find contributory links to the offence, according to The Straits Times.<\/p>\n The defence asked for Foo to be given two weeks’ jail, citing that he had not called the 999 emergency hotline.<\/p>\n For obstructing a public servant in their duties, the man could have been jailed for up to six months, fined up to $2,500, or both.<\/p>\n [[nid:743493]]<\/p>\n lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A man called several Neighbourhood Police Centres (NPC) over 1,000 times in the span of one week and stayed silent when officers picked up the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80628,"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-80627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627","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=80627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}425 calls to Yishun NPC<\/h2>\n
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