Police Investigating 2 People Who Damaged & Tore PSP & PAP Posters

Today’s the fourth day of campaigning and things in Singapore are getting heated up.

The various parties contesting in the General Elections have gathered together for a public debate on policies

The government has to come out and clarify about the infamous “10 million population”:

And two people were caught for allegedly destroying political party campaign posters.

Police Investigating 2 People Who Damaged & Tore PSP & PAP Posters

On 2 July, it was reported that a 13-year-old teenager and 51-year-old man were identified and caught by the police for damaging campaign posters.

Progress Singapore Party Damaged Election Posters At Bukit Batok East Ave 5

The first torn up PSP poster was discovered by officers on 1 Jul 2020 at 1.50am along Bukit Batok East Ave 5.

Later on in the day, PSP lodged a police report, saying that another torn poster has been found along the same stretch of road.

After an extensive investigation, police officers from the Jurong Police Division identified a man whom they believed to have damaged both posters.

They arrested him on 2 Jul 2020 at around 1.50am.

People Action Party Damaged Election Posters At Hougang Ave 10

On 1 Jul 2020 at about 8.30pm, the police received a police report about damaged PAP election posters near Hougang Ave 10.

Police officers from the Ang Mo Kio division managed to identify the culprit whom they believe had damaged the posters and brought him in to assist in the investigations.

Investigations are ongoing for both cases.

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A Serious Crime

In case you didn’t know, defacing or destroying campaign posters and banners is a crime, and constitutes as an offence under the Parliamentary Elections Act.

You cannot “alter, remove, destroy, obliterate or deface any election posters or banners.”

If found guilty, you can be fined up to $1,000 or jailed up to 12 months.

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong also took to his Facebook page to share that this is a timely reminder that all political party supporters should “show respect for each other”.

The police want everyone to know that they won’t hesitate to catch you if you destroy campaign posters:

“The police take a very stern view of persons who vandalise or cause damage to property, and will not hesitate to take action against them.”

This isn’t anything new either: Three men were brought in for investigations over destroyed campaign posters as well back in GE2015.

So yes, they’ve had a lot of practice at tracking people down for this.

Just like my momma likes to say, there are always two ways to go about doing things: the right way and the wrong way.

The wrong way is drawing a moustache on PM Lee or SDP Chee’s face.

While that might abate your anger momentarily, you’re probably going to regret it when the men in blue (no, not the political party) comes knocking on your door at 1.50am in the morning.

The right way is to understand all sides of the story, then choose which best suits you.

#MakeYourVote-

Editor: What are you doing?

Uh, telling people to vote-

Editor: With a certain political party’s slogan? We’re not supposed to take sides, remember?

Oh, uh…Make Your Vote Count No Matter If It’s For Your Job, Your Lives Or Your Future?

Editor: You don’t have to come back to work tomorrow.

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