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More Police NSFs May Be Recruited to Fight Online Scams
July 13, 2025
|The Straits Times
Vocation was introduced in 2024 and now has 10 national service cybercrime operators
While many full-time national servicemen (NSFs) train in dense forests or patrol bustling streets, a special group of them wages an online war against scams.
Known as national service cybercrime operators (NSCOs), they trawl social media for scammers and block scam websites from public access.
There are 10 NSFs in this new vocation, which was introduced in 2024 to bolster Singapore's fight against the scam scourge. That year, scam victims lost a record $1.1 billion.
A police spokeswoman said the Singapore Police Force plans to continue expanding the NSCO vocation to support more anti-cybercrime efforts across its units.
A member from its pioneer batch, Special Constable (SC) Irfan Daniyal Mohammad Shaarin, 21, likened scouring social media for scam activity to being a hunter in a jungle.
SC Irfan said: "Once I start the clock, it's free range for me. I will proactively seek out anyone and anything I can find that fits our criteria for taking down these accounts."
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