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Forty-nine individuals are under investigation after an enforcement operation conducted by multiple agencies in the vicinity of Geylang, the police said on Friday (Sept 11).<\/p>\n
Among them, 36 are men and 13 are women, with ages ranging from 16 to 70.<\/p>\n
The operation, conducted between Aug 24 and Sept 10, was led by the Bedok Police Division and saw participation from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Singapore Customs, Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA).<\/p>\n
These were part of efforts <\/strong>to clamp down on illegal activities in Geylang, the police said.<\/p>\n From Aug 27 to 29, the Bedok Police Division worked with HSA, ICA and CNB to conduct a joint enforcement against the sale of illegal health products and drug-related activities in the Geylang area.<\/p>\n The operation yielded cough syrup, sexual enhancement products, vaporisers and etomidate pods, estimated to be worth around $54,000 in total.<\/p>\n Two people were arrested under the Tobacco and Vaporiser Control Act and are also being investigated for offences under the Health Products Act.<\/p>\n Two men and a woman, aged 32 to 37, were arrested for suspected drug-related offences.<\/p>\n Between Aug 24 and Sept 2, police conducted multiple operations against vice and secret societies-related activities.<\/p>\n Three women, aged 41 to 53, were arrested for their suspected involvement in vice-related activities.<\/p>\n Singapore Customs officers also seized 1,346 sticks of duty-unpaid cigarettes on Aug 27 in Geylang.<\/p>\n Eighteen individuals, aged between 24 and 61, were issued composition sums under the Customs Act.<\/p>\n The Bedok Police Division also conducted enforcement <\/strong>operation at a message establishment and one other location in Geylang.<\/p>\n Seven women aged between 30 and 47 were arrested for their suspected involvement in vice-related activities.<\/p>\n The establishment, along with the owner of the other premise, are assisting with investigations.<\/p>\n LTA also nabbed 13 individuals aged between 18 and 70 under the Active Mobility Act amid operations against illegally modified personal mobility devices and power-assisted bicycles.<\/p>\n One mobility device and eight bicycles were subsequently impounded.<\/p>\n On Aug 30, CNB, ICA and Bedok Police Division officers conduct a five-hotel operation in Geylang.<\/p>\n One individual was arrested for failure to attend in obedience to an order from a public servant, while another was arrested for forgery.<\/p>\n A suspect was also arrested for an offence of theft by servant and for remaining unlawfully in Singapore.<\/p>\n SFA officers conducted operations against illegal street hawking near the Geylang lorongs on Thursday (Sept 10).<\/p>\n Second-hand goods were seized during the operation and a 46-year-old man was investigated for offences under the Environmental Public Health Act.<\/p>\n Superintendent of Police Letts Tan commented that the police will continue to work closely with relevant agencies in enforcing the law against illegal activities in Geylang.<\/p>\n “Such activities will not be tolerated, and firm actions will be taken against those who blatantly disregard the law. Members of the public are advised to report those engaging in unlawful activities to the police,” he stated.<\/p>\n [[nid:744865]]<\/p>\n khooyihang@asiaone.com<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Forty-nine individuals are under investigation after an enforcement operation conducted by multiple agencies in the vicinity of Geylang, the police said on Friday (Sept 11)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84366,"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-84365","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\/84365","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=84365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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