What is Stalking?

Stalking is a course of conduct or a series of actions intended, or which would be reasonably likely, to cause harassment, alarm or distress to the victim.

Section 7 of the Protection from Harassment Act provides examples of acts associated with stalking:
(a) following the victim;

(b) making any communication, or attempting to make any communication, by any means —
(i) to the victim;
(ii) relating or purporting to relate to the victim; or
(iii) purporting to originate from the victim;

(c) entering or loitering in any place (whether public or private) outside or near the victim’s place of residence or place of business or any other place frequented by the victim;

(d)interfering with property in the possession of the victim (whether or not the accused person has an interest in the property);

(e) giving or sending material to the victim, or leaving it where it will be found by, given to or brought to the attention of, the victim;

(f) keeping the victim under surveillance.

Stalking is also committed if any of the forms of behaviour specified are done to a person related to the victim, defined as “a person about whose safety or well‑being the victim would reasonably be expected to be seriously concerned”.

Illustrations

Section 7 of the Protection from Harassment Act provides helpful illustrations.

These acts are acts associated with stalking of X by Y:
(a) Y repeatedly sends emails to Y’s subordinate (X) with suggestive comments about X’s body.
(b) Y sends flowers to X daily even though X has asked Y to stop doing so.
(c) Y repeatedly circulates revealing photographs of a classmate (X) to other classmates.
(d) Y surreptitiously plants a camera in X’s apartment. Unknown to X, the camera continuously transmits live videos of X in X’s apartment and Y watches the videos continually over several days. Y’s conduct is protracted.

Further information –

Singapore Statutes Online​ for the Protection from Harassment Act (Chapter 256A).

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Probation is Not a conviction if the conditions of probation such as time restriction etc. are fulfilled and the probation order is successfully completed without commission of a new offence.

Probation of Offenders Act (Chapter 252)
Section 11(1) Subject as hereinafter provided, a conviction for an offence for which an order is made under this Act placing the offender on probation or discharging him absolutely or conditionally shall be deemed not to be a conviction for any purpose other than the purposes of the proceedings in which the order is made and of any subsequent proceedings which may be taken against the offender under the foregoing provisions of this Act.

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The Traffic Police will take action against motorists for handphone driving when ALL the following 3 conditions are be fulfilled:

(a) the vehicle is in motion; and

(b) the driver is holding on to the handphone with one hand; and

(c) the driver is communicating with any person with that handphone (which includes making phone calls, paging for someone, receiving a call by pressing the keypad, reading, writing or sending of SMS).

Thus, for example, a driver who simply holds a mobile phone but is not using it to communicate while driving will not have committed an offence of handphone driving. However if by doing so, the driver loses attention on the roads and fails to maintain proper control of his vehicle, he will still have committed an offence of driving without due care or reasonable consideration.

see Singapore Police Force FAQ

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