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An enforcement officer from the National Environment Agency (NEA) was terminated after he was caught on video vaping just after issuing a summons to a man for smoking illegally.
Responding to queries from The New Paper, an NEA spokesman said the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has also taken enforcement action against the officer under the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Act.
“The NEA is aware of an online video which shows an outsourced NEA enforcement officer using an electronic vaporiser,” she said.
“We investigated the incident immediately and confirmed that the outsourced enforcement officer had indeed used an electronic vaporiser.
“On NEA’s instruction, the service provider has removed the officer from our contract.”
The enforcement officer had caught a man smoking illegally in Golden Mile Tower, Beach Road, at about 5pm on Nov 16.
He attempted to issue a summons to the man, who was not cooperative, and the police were called in to provide assistance.
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