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Originally Posted by Otaman
Bro Ninja, I think you got it the other way round. My own experience is that they will seize your phone but return you the sim card.
I was stopped coming out from the famous blue condo on the hill after visiting an ML there. They ID themselves as CID and told me they had observed me entering unit #xx-xx at xxxx hrs and leaving at xxxx hrs. Took me to one corner of the carpark. Then asked me to relate what happened... followed by some questions. They took my phone and scrolled thru the contents and dialled some numbers. Asked me more questions about some text messages and contacts. After that they took a short statement from me and asked to sign on it. Just then I saw the ML that I had visited come out of the lift with 3 other officers.... and proceed to board a yellow van with DHL markings.
Then they took out my sim card and returned it to me but seized my phone. But they did inform me the phone will be returned back to me after they sent for inspection.
True enough.... I receive a letter about 2 weeks later asking me to collect my phone from Tanglin Police Stn.
I met up with another policeman whom I know before I went to collect my phone as I was apprehensive about what will happen at the police station. He told me not to worry as its normal procedure. He said I was lucky I was using a legitimate sim card otherwise my sim card would have been confiscated if it was a unregistered one. And I can be charged under the Telecoms Act..... although no jail time for this offence but the composition fine is still quite stiff at $300.
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Originally Posted by Kopiosteve
Wah, yours so dramatic! For me, nothing like this at all!
The 2 times I kenna caught was the first with a FL and the other with a ML.
Both times, the officers did not even touch my phone. And only once they asked me if they could see the messages between the girl and me. They did not touch my phone at all. I later concluded that they didn't do this it's because I did not commit a crime. Looking for FL or ML is not a crime in Singapore. And because I did not commit a crime, they could not anyhow just take my phone and look through it. And definitely cannot confiscate my phone because no crime was committed on my part. I just had to make a statement, sign it, and was free to go. All within half an hour. They never contacted me again.
Anyhow that was my experience. Your experience like very different.
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Makes me wonder what offence has been committed by Otaman that the handphone was with-held for two weeks. (Suspect must be for a wider crime investigation).
I thought normally a statement will just be taken, and the phone should not be taken away (as what Kopiosteve has mentioned).
Thankfully, I have not experienced what both of you had encountered!