NEA Increases Visibility Of Corrective Work Order Sessions

18 Nov 2022

Corrective Work Order sessions expand to city areas of Singapore

Singapore, 18 November 2022 – From 2017 to 2021, the National Environment Agency (NEA) issued an average of 27,200 tickets for littering and high-rise littering. Over the same period, the number of Corrective Work Orders (CWOs) issued to offenders was about 10,200.

No. of tickets issued for littering and high-rise littering

2          Littering commonly occurs in neighbourhood centres, areas around hawker centres, MRT stations, and shopping malls. The majority of littering offenders are male and fall within the age group of 18 to 35 years old.  Ground surveys show that cigarette butts consistently top the list of littered items.

3          NEA’s anti-littering enforcement regime takes strict enforcement action against those who litter, with fines comprising a composition sum of $300 for the first offence, while high-rise littering offenders are sent to court. Offenders prosecuted in court may be issued a fine and sentenced to perform CWO. Introduced in 1992, the CWO requires recalcitrant offenders to clean public areas for a minimum of three hours, up to a maximum of 12 hours. This regime serves to increase recalcitrant offenders’ awareness of the impact of littering, as well as experience the difficulties faced by cleaners.

4          Under the Environmental Public Health Act (EPHA) 1987, the maximum fine for a littering offence is $2,000 for the first court conviction, $4,000 for the second conviction, and $10,000 for the third and subsequent convictions.

Corrective Work Order Sessions at City Areas

5          To further drive home the impact of littering, NEA has introduced CWO sessions at city areas for the first time from this month. They were held at the Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar areas on 15 and 17 November 2022 (photos of the CWO sessions are in the Annex). NEA will continue to put up informative standees around locations identified for CWO sessions, to highlight an ongoing session to raise public awareness of CWO. NEA officers conduct targeted enforcement at littering hotspots, and at areas where large number of individuals congregate.

6          “Everyone has a part to play in upholding high standards of cleanliness and public health in Singapore. NEA will continue with its educational and enforcement efforts, to encourage members of the public to exercise social graciousness and take personal ownership in keeping Singapore clean”, said Mr Tony Teo, Group Director of Environmental Public Health Operations at NEA.

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ANNEX

Images from a Corrective Work Order (CWO) sessions at city areas of Singapore

50-year-old Caleb Joshua Chai Shanmugam, is being accused of killing 27-year-old Rachael Ang Qi Ying at a ground floor unit at 2 Beach Road, on 9 November at about 7pm.

Ang was reportedly missing for 4 days before being found dead at the shop in Beach Road, where she was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

Shanmugam and Ang were co-directors of a renovation company called Smart Click Services, which is registered to an address at Peninsula Plaza and the two were listed as directors from 1 October 2021, according to The Straits Times.

The police were alerted to a case of unnatural death on Sunday, and identified the 50-year-old in connection to the case after a missing person report was made on 10 November.

Shanmugam had left for Malaysia on 10 November and the Singapore police then sought the help of the Royal Malaysia Police, and he was then arrested in JB and handed over to the Singapore Police.

He is being represented by Suang Wijaya and Sophia Ng from the Eugene Thuraisingam law firm and he was charged at Changi General Hospital with murder.

His case has been adjourned to 25 November, and if convicted, he faces the death penalty.

A 61-year-old driver is assisting the police with investigations after an 11-year-old boy who was crossing the road, was hit by a car in Sengkang, according to Shin Min Daily News.

The accident happened on 16 November at about 2.38pm, along Compassvale Drive.

A resident who lived nearby, Mr Xu, spoke to SMDN and said that he heard cries and later found out that a boy was lying on the road with blood on his face.

Passers-by went over to help him and an ambulance arrived at the scene after about 5 to 10 minutes, and he was then conveyed to the hospital.

Xu said that there was a red car that was parked nearby, and the driver of the car alighted from the vehicle to check on the situation and that there were no passengers in his car at the time.

It is believed that the boy was crossing the road to take the bus at the time near the accident site.

The Singapore Police Force confirmed that an 11-year-old boy was conveyed to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital conscious, and that a 61-year-old man is assisting the police with their investigations.

A 58-year-old man in Singapore was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment on Thursday after pleading guilty to 2 counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration.

He had assaulted and raped his intellectually disabled eldest daughter for 3 years, starting in 2017 until his arrest in 2020.

The Straits Times reported that the man’s first assault started in 2017 when he made the victim (then 29) perform oral intercourse on him before raping her, and telling her not to tell her mother.

Then in 2019, he told the victim “let’s have fun” before raping her as she was coming out of the bathroom.

His wife was waiting for her daughter in the corridor on 8 July 2020 after realising that she wasn’t home yet by 11.45pm, and she saw her husband lifting the daughter’s shirt up at the staircase landing.

The man then apologised immediately and released the daughter, asking his wife for forgiveness.

The wife then went to her younger daughter and told her about what happened, and the latter then asked her sister about the incident, and her sister said she encountered their father at the corridor.

She added that he was holding his phone in one hand while lifting her shirt with the other.

The younger sister then took her father’s phone while he was sleeping and found evidence of his crimes, including video(s) of her sister undressing.

The victim then said that their father had entered the bathroom while she was still inside, where he told her to undress while he filmed her.

The victim’s mother and sister then filed a police report and the man was then arrested later that day, on 10 July 2020.

A video appeared on social media of a voice recording of a man who went berserk after his paid date refuses to provide him for “special services”.

He said: “I TELL U I GIVE YOU MONEY LEH TO SPEND TIME ON DINNER, I PAY MONEY LEH!

Here is what the victim said:

I went on a paid date and my male client was extremely aggressive. He asked me for sexual services but I told him that this platform does not offer that kind of services; just friendly dates, and he got aggressive.

This went on for quite sometime before the video was taken. He drove me to some ulu place and did not let me out of the car. I was ready to jump out of the moving car because I was that scared. I was shaking the entire time and was contacting my agent on text.

Worst of anti got victim-blamed by my agent. My agent called me after I finally got out of the car and asked me “what did you do to trigger him?”

Note that at this point of time I was already shaking with fear, crying, and still feeling unsafe and not an ounce of empathy was expressed by my agent.

Full Video of the incident:

Here are what netizens think:

• Also, why you do this kind of risky side gig? Better to not be in this kinda situation in the first place. Also, if you really must, meet at public place and then u leave yourself. Dont put yr fate into his hands and follow him wherever he might take u.

• Says a lot about a man who can not control his own anger. The agent also one kind. Name and shame the agent and the company.

• You got a very scary job dear…hope you can manage to get a better one. Stay safe 

• I’d spend the money on petrol rather than someone to talk to

• Not saying what the guy did is wrong, but she clearly put herself in this risk when taking up this job. If you dont want to deal with this or mentally cant handle ot, why even bother getting this free money. Some cases for rape, for example, girls go out at night to a dangerous place/in an unsafe country and expect themselves to be safe but in the end, they were taken advantage of. However, they were the one who put themselves at the risk of it in the first place, both parties are ar fault. You can’t expect every human being in the world to be sweet and caring people, reality is that there are real cunts out there.