Police, Together With Police Dog, Found Girl Who Went Missing from a Foodcourt at Tanjong Pagar

2021-02-01 , 3:43 pm

It’s always a nightmare if someone you know goes missing.

Which goes without saying that if it happens to your child, you’d be more than terrified.

Recently, a certain missing person incident occurred.

But thankfully, this one has a happy ending to it, all thanks to man’s best friend.

Police Dog Reportedly Found Girl Who Went Missing from a Foodcourt

The incident happened on 30 Jan.

Lianhe Zaobao reported that a 6-year-old girl went missing in a food court, Essen at The Pinnacle, on Cantonment Road, Tanjong Pagar.

The girl went missing around 4pm that day and was apparently the daughter of a female stall owner.

Not too long later, the police were called and arrived at the scene a few hours later.

They also brought along a dog from the K-9 unit, which trains police dogs to aid for anti-crime purposes or help find people.

The officers found a child’s backpack and had the dog track the girl down through smell.

According to Zaobao, one bystander heard an officer mentioning a block number.

Most of the officers left to investigate, leaving one female officer with the stall owner to await the results.

It was later confirmed that they had found the missing child around the block which was mentioned.

She has since been returned safely to her mother.

Thank you, police doggo.

Reader Bao: But no one says it’s the dog that found the-

Just thank the four-legged cutie.

If you need to lodge a police report for a missing person, you can go here to do so. Alternatively, you can call the police hotline at 999.

More details on what to do upon lodging a police report can be found over here.

Unfortunately, not every missing person case ends on a happy note.

Most of us might be familiar with this incident by now.

On 29 June 2007, Felicia Teo, then 19, reportedly left her house to attend a party at Marine Terrace.

She was last seen on CCTV footage entering a lift and taking it up to the 10th floor with the two suspects.

No one has seen her since.

In December 2020, Ahmad Danial Mohamed Rafa’ee, now 36, and Ragil Putra Setia Sukmarahjana, now 33, are suspected to be her murderers.

The former has since been arrested and was last seen in court on 28 Jan.

The Institute of Mental Health has a report on Ahmad following a psychiatric evaluation.

However, the details of the report have not been revealed.

Ragil has not been found yet, though he is suspected to be overseas.

If convicted of murder, both men face the death penalty.

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