An auxiliary police officer at a Singapore airport could be sentenced
An auxiliary police officer working at Singapore's Changi Airport terminal will be charged with taking belongings left behind by passengers and will be fined and jailed for up to seven years if found guilty, the Straits Times reported Saturday.
A police statement released on Saturday said they received a report of a suspected theft on the afternoon of February 28.
After investigation, a passenger accidentally left a pair of brand-name headphones on the plane, and the crew found it and handed it to the auxiliary police on duty for safekeeping and waiting for passengers to claim it. Instead, he took his unbranded headphones to a lost and found office and took the branded ones for his own use, only to find out when passengers came to pick them up that they weren't.
At present, the auxiliary police officer has been arrested and will be charged in court on March 7. If convicted, he faces a fine and up to seven years in prison.