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SINGAPORE — The police said on Monday (April 13) that they do not conduct roadblocks to enforce Singapore’s elevated safe distancing measures — despite some messages circulating around town suggesting that they do.

In a statement, the police said some text messages had made false claims that members of the public had been stopped at police roadblocks and fined for not complying with the elevated safe distancing measures.

“This is not true. The police have not conducted roadblocks specifically to enforce the elevated safe distancing measures, and no passengers have been fined at roadblocks for not complying with these measures,” the statement said.

In addition to the text messages referred to in the police statement, TODAY has also seen messages circulating on social media platforms such as WhatsApp making the same false assertions.

In one of the messages that had circulated on WhatsApp, a member of the public claimed that a friend’s son had been fined S$300 for “sending a friend home”.

“He was stopped during a roadblock and they (the police) checked both their Identity Cards (ICs) which apparently didn’t match within the same household,” the message read.

The police said that they conduct roadblocks to detect offences such as drink-driving, as well as for other law enforcement purposes, such as to detect wanted persons.

“Nevertheless, if the police come across motorists and passengers flouting the elevated safe distancing measures when conducting such roadblocks, the police may take enforcement action,” they said.