Handsome cop in anti-crime cardboard cutouts gets married

SINGAPORE – From famous poster boy to groom.

According to a Facebook post by Tan Shiwei, Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Ryan Koh, whose image on a standee graces many a shop and street, got married yesterday (Apr 2) at St Andrew’s Cathedral.

The post, which read “Sorry ladies.. poster boy is taken today”, includes two photographs of the married couple posing alongside the standee which had made ASP Koh the subject of multiple news stories.

Indeed, reactions to the Facebook post were wide-ranging – from user Suwanti Tan’s “NO!!!!!” to Chen Ks’ “my wife is soooo sadddddd” and Cynthia Oh’s “Hahaha so cute!”. 

The details of ASP Koh’s wife are not known.

According to The New Paper, the officer has over 800 anti “shop-theft” standees in Singapore and has become popular with the public – so much so that netizens bestowed the nickname “Yan Dao (handsome in the Hokkien dialect) Policeman” on him.

Handsome cop of anti-crime standee in new shop theft prevention video

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In the report, ASP Koh said that he rarely gets recognised in public probably because he does not “wear the peaked hat and do that (stern) expression all the time”. 

He added that friends and family update him whenever his standee is featured in new memes. He also said that he felt that the standee was a “new and unconventional method” of getting the word out on crime prevention.  

On ASP Koh’s marriage, Facebook user Benny Loy Hui Xiong probably said it best: “The only crime the bride (committed) was stealing his heart. Congrats to both of them”.

prabukm@sph.com.sg