The Police will be charging a 24-year-old man for allegedly assaulting a police officer as he was being arrested on 9 January 2017.
On 9 January 2017 at about 10.24am, the Police were alerted to an accident involving a car and a lorry at the junction of Riverside Road and Admiralty Road. While Traffic Police officers were arresting the male car driver for his suspected involvement in traffic and drug-related offences, the man resisted and punched one of the officers.
The man will be charged in Court on 11 January 2017 with the offence of Voluntarily Causing Hurt to deter a public servant from his duty under Section 332 of the Penal Code, Chapter 224 (Revised Edition 2008), which carries an imprisonment term which may extend to 7 years, or with fine, or with caning, or with combination of such punishments.
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
10 January 2017 @ 6:15 PM