In the latest case where lone police officers were found dead and sustaining a gunshot wound, the body of a 20-year-old national serviceman was discovered yesterday morning.
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) confirmed to the media yesterday evening that the full-time Police National Serviceman was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head inside a locked security post in Tanglin.
Reportedly, he arrived for duty around 8pm the night before, and drawn his service revolver from the armoury for his night shift duties before starting his shift.
Paramedics pronounced him dead at about 7.50am yesterday, while the service revolver was found beside his body.
Though authorities are not suspecting any foul play, they have classified the case as an “unnatural death” and are conducting investigations.
This grim incident is only the latest in the long line of eerily similar deaths of police officers spanning the last couple of years.
In October 2014, a 34-year-old Malaysian Certis Cisco auxiliary police officer was found dead in a toilet at Changi Airport’s Terminal 1 with a single gunshot wound to his head. In September 2013, a 23-year-old SPF officer was also found dead with a gunshot wound to his head at the Bukit Timah Neighbourhood Police Centre. In July 2012, the body of a 38-year-old Criminal Investigations Department officer was discovered at the Police Cantonment Complex, also with a gunshot wound to his head and his service revolver by his side.
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