Instagram user @nichology shared a video that he took, showing an elderly woman purported to be an old cardboard collector, being surrounded by 4 policemen.
He asked: “Do we really need 4 policemen to cluster an elderly auntie that took off her mask because she was feeling breathless?”
He then revealed that he asked around and was allegedly told that she collects cardboard for a living, and that the auntie had already put her mask back on but the policemen continued to tell her off.
She was allegedly scolded to the extent that a passerby had to step in and play mediator.
@nichology then asked: “Seriously, sometimes I don’t understand what kind of people we hire as public servants.”
He then asked them (the police) to “spend your time and make yourself more useful, not taunt an old cardboard collection auntie! SHAME ON YOU!! (SIC)”
What actually happened
The Singapore Police have since come out and clarified the actual events that happened.
The 85-year-old woman appeared lost and was believed to have dementia.
The police officers attended to her and helped her to find her way home, and the officers were worried that she might be hungry, bought her some food.
A passer-by stepped forward and revealed that the woman stayed at a nearby block.
The elderly woman’s maid was then contacted and the old woman was then returned to her home safely.
The police also commended two other members of the public for helping, one of them offered a mask to the woman, which an officer helped her to put on; and another woman gave her a few more masks.
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News, images and video source: @nichology on Instagram and Singapore Police Force Facebook