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SINGAPORE – Unhappy that he was followed by auxiliary police officers who had approached him earlier for littering, a 53-year-old man kicked one of them in the knee and even threw a bicycle at them.
Sulaiman Shaik Alladin was jailed for 18 weeks on Friday (December 18).
He pleaded guilty to two counts of using words and threatening behavior with a public servant, as well as one count of attempting to use criminal force against the officers and of willfully causing harm to one of them.
Court documents indicate that Certis’ two auxiliary police officers were performing anti-litter enforcement duties near Tampines Mall on June 6 at around 3.50 p.m. They had been hired by the National Environment Agency (NEA ) to do it.
Officers saw Sulaiman throwing a cigarette butt to the ground and approached him.
Identifying themselves as NEA agents, they asked him for his details, but he refused and walked away from them.
They followed him as he walked to the park connector next to Block 268, Tampines Street 21.
Certis officers later told him to cooperate with them so they could issue him a citation for littering, the court heard.
Sulaiman responded by pointing aggressively, yelling and hurling vulgarities at the officers. He also waved his fist towards one of them.
He later stopped walking and gave one of the officers a card.
But it was not his NRIC, and the officer asked Sulaiman to provide his actual identification document.
After the man screamed and walked away, the officers followed him.
Sulaiman then turned around, shoved one of them on the right shoulder and kicked him in the knees.
He picked up a bicycle parked on the sidewalk and threw it at the officers, but it landed some distance in front of them.
On Friday, Assistant District Attorney Jason Chua urged the court to jail Sulaiman for 18 weeks.
The DPP noted that the man had been convicted of using abusive words, among other things, in January this year and was sentenced to four weeks in jail.
He had been sent for a psychiatric evaluation at the Institute of Mental Health, but it was found that he did not have any signs of mental illness at the time of the crimes, DPP Chua said.
Pleading for mercy, Sulaiman said he is the sole breadwinner for his family and has three school-age children.
In sentencing him, District Judge Marvin Bay said: “We cannot tolerate senseless assault and abuse from public officials, who are simply doing their job in carrying out their enforcement duties.”
The judge also told the man that he should set a good example for his children.
For every count of using words and threatening behavior with a public servant, Sulaiman could have been jailed for up to two years, or fined up to $ 10,000, or both.
He could also have been sentenced to a maximum of seven years in prison, or fined, flogged, or given any combination of suc.
h Punishments, for voluntarily causing harm to the Certis officer.
For attempting to use criminal force against the officers, he could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.
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