A parking enforcement officer issued summonses to innocent motorists in bid to fulfill daily work quota

Photo: j0035001-2 / Flickr
Photo: j0035001-2 / Flickr

Sixteen innocent vehicle owners were affected when a parking officer freely issued summonses to random motorists in her attempt to make it seem that she did her job, even though she actually skipped work.

Yesterday, Noorasimah Jasman, 33, was slapped with a month in jail after she pleaded guilty to 18 offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act, The Straits Times reported. She issued over $1,000 worth of fake parking summonses when she skipped her patrols between Jun 5 and Jul 1 last year, according to Channel NewsAsia.

Employed by HDB parking lot management Ramky Cleantech Services, the woman was tasked to patrol Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang to hunt down vehicle owners with parking offences. Her job had a daily work quota that involved checking at least 60 vehicles per carpark and record the number of vehicles she inspected and the number of summonses issued during patrols.

But before you jump into conspiracies about parking enforcement officers having mandatory numbers to fulfill each day, the “daily work quota” involves the number of cars checked, and not the number of summonses issued.

Noorasimah, however, did not actually go out on patrols — she claimed in court that she had to take care of her ill grandmother during the period, according to ST. But to make it seem like she actually did her job, she entered registration numbers of vehicles without season parking tickets into the system, whether they were parked or not in the area she was tasked to patrol. Though Noorasimah had to log the parking offences with photos, she planned to excuse her mistake as an oversight, CNA reported.

In total, she issued 54 parking summonses. 16 of the falsely accused motorists, however, had not broken any rules, but paid the fines nonetheless, totaling $304.

One of them knew something was wrong when she received a letter about a supposed parking offence committed on Jun 9 last year — which would be impossible as she had been overseas, and nobody had driven her car out. When she received another letter nine days later for another supposed parking offence, she made a police report. Investigations revealed that Noorasimah wasn’t even at the carpark when the summonses were issued.

HDB has since canceled the remaining summonses falsely issued by the accused and refunded the fines to the motorists who received them. Noorasimah has since lost her job and was ordered to surrender herself to begin her jail sentence on Oct 31.



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