By Amanda Yong

HE CALLED the police claiming a woman he had just met had stolen his Rolex watch.

Colin Yap Kim Cheong, 34, a law graduate from Kings College, London also told the police that the woman was in a flat at Eng Hoon Street in Tiong Bahru.

When the police knocked on the door of the flat, no one answered and Yap was advised to make a police report.

It turned out that the woman was his girlfriend and he wanted the police to help get her out of the flat so he could talk to her.

Yap, a legal officer in a law firm, was jailed two weeks for giving false information to a public servant. He is appealing against the sentence and is out on bail.

Figures on the number of false police reports made here each year are not available, but such cases are on the rise, lawyers told The New Paper.