When you can’t come to a conclusion using your words, nor your fists, resort to your feet.
Maybe that’s what went through the thoughts of this one officer in the split second he had to stop an errant rider.
Unfortunately, he forgot that he was not in a movie, nor was he Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan.
Let’s just say the officer felt the heat of his fiery behaviour and ended up fired too.
Officer Kicked Rider Off The Road
The long awaited conclusion to the incident that went viral online back in December 2019 (a prehistoric time before the pandemic even reached our shores and the rage was all about PMDs) is finally here.
On 10 December 2019, at about 6:45pm, an errant personal mobility device (PMD) rider was seen running a red light at a very high speed near Bedok Reservoir Road.
Unfortunately for 28-year-old Goh Ting Feng, officers from Certis Cisco and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) were conducting enforcement checks nearby when they spotted him.
Although they instructed Goh to stop immediately, he refused to listen and continued speeding through the dual-carriageway road onto the next junction.
Officers who were at the junction ran could be seen running across the road in a video posted on the SG Road Vigilante Facebook page to stop Goh.
As Goh rounded the corner like a speeding F1 racing car, an officer swung his leg with impeccable timing to strike Goh in a kung-fu kick.
Goh then lost control of his PMD and both rider and device were thrown onto the sidewalk after hitting the curb.
Netizens in the comments found it hard to pick a side, for some supported the officer’s decisive actions while others criticised him for using brute force that could have harmed the rider.
Well, even though the officer was just trying to do his job, he ended up losing it.
Officer Suspended And Fired Afterwards
Certis has since shared to The Straits Times that the officer, identified as auxiliary police officer Kishok Kumar Ragu, has been dismissed by them.
On 18 June 2020, he was slapped with a 12-month conditional warning because of his rash act.
His rash act had resulted in both Goh and him being injured, besides it being a threat to the rest of those on the roads, so it was no small matter.
Zero tolerance will be given towards the excessive use of force and strict action awaits officers who breach protocols, Certis added.
They shared that they already have standard operating procedures in place when it comes to stopping errant riders who refuse to stop the first time around.
Of course, such SOPs will be kept confidential in case riders want to try to sneak their way around them.
But we’re pretty sure it doesn’t involve a kungfu kick.
Rider Jailed For Six Days
It was not only the officer who landed in hot soup, for we can’t forget Goh committed a crime as well.
On top of his speeding and refusing to stop even after ordered to by the authorities, he was even riding an illegal PMD device.
It’s not because of the ban on PMDs that arose around that time too, but it was because his device was not compliant with the rules and had been unregistered too.
PMDs are required by law to weigh no more than 20kg, but his device weighed a whopping 30.54kg, exceeding the limit by more than 10kg.
Goh was thus sentenced to six days of jail back on 6 April this year, according to the LTA.
They have also seized and forfeited his PMD since.
Reader Bao: BTW, is PMD a new variant or what?
Not sure leh.
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