Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter has or­dered the de­ten­tion of 24 more peo­ple be­lieved to be in­volved in gang ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer held for al­leged­ly tip­ping off crim­i­nals.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) gazetted yes­ter­day and signed on Tues­day, 17 were for gang mem­bers, two for gang lead­ers and five oth­ers were for peo­ple be­lieved to be as­sist­ing gangs.

Among those de­tained was po­lice of­fi­cer Ste­fon Khan, who was held for util­is­ing his po­si­tion to pro­vide ac­cess to polic­ing fa­cil­i­ties to a mem­ber of a gang.