A DECORATED police officer was convicted in a district court this morning for helping foreign women extend their stay here illegally.

Daniel Teo Guan Koon, 35, who had been commended for helping to solve several murders and a kidnapping, will be sentenced tomorrow.

In just three months last year, he raked in $26,500 for helping 53 women from Vietnam and China to extend their stay here.

He forged letters to the immigration authorities saying that the women were needed here because they had to help with investigations in murders and unnatural deaths. For each of these letters, he received $500.

However, he had no authority to write such letters in the first place.

Teo, who had been suspended since May this year, received the money from middleman Eric Au Choon Yong as a reward for his efforts. Mr Au has yet to be charged with any offence.

If convicted of corruption, he could be jailed for up to five years and fined $100,000. A conviction of forgery carries a maximum jail term of seven years.

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