| Fadley Faisal |

A FORMER policewoman was sentenced to two years jail for criminal breach of trust by the Intermediate Court yesterday, after pleading guilty to the offence.

DPP Amiriah binti Haji Ali’s facts of the case stated that APO 6471 Nur Awfiyah Darwisyah @ Marinah Chan binti Abdullah Chan, 34, of the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) committed the crime while working as a clerk under the Payroll Unit of the RBPF Headquarters in Gadong.

Her duties then included making salary deductions for police personnel who had loaned money from Syarikat Ahli-Ahli Polis Diraja Brunei (SEPADU).

However, instead of going through the proper procedures of deducting the loaned amounts from the officers’ payrolls and setting up the sums to be paid to SEPADU, the defendant arranged for the officers to hand over the loan payments to her directly.

In total, the defendant pocketed BND5,160 between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 from six police officers who were not issued with receipts.

The defendant’s acts were discovered when SEPADU management found shortfalls in the recorded loan repayments. An internal investigation was carried out, leading to the defendant’s arrest.