Section 115

When information is received at a police station relating to the commission of an offence, being an offence of which it appears that no previous information has been received in the station, the officer in charge of the police station or any police officer whose duty it is to receive reports shall proceed according to one of the following subsections.

If the information is in writing, he shall forthwith mark on it the date and time of receipt, and, if practicable, the name and address of the person (other than a postal messenger) by whom it was delivered, and if it purports to be signed by the informant, he shall file it as a report.

If the information is given orally and he considers it practicable to reduce it to writing forthwith, he shall record or cause to be recorded in a book kept for this purpose a report containing the name and address of the informant, the date and time of his arrival at the station, the substance of the information and such other particulars as the nature of the case may require, and the report shall be signed by the informant, by the recording officer, and by the interpreter, if any.

If the information is given orally and it appears to him impracticable to proceed forthwith under subsection (3) he shall immediately make a note of first information in the station diary, and if the offence is seizable as soon thereafter as circumstances permit, a fuller statement by the informant shall be recorded under section 121.

For the purposes of this section, the office of any branch or sub-branch of the Criminal Investigation Department or the Radio Division of the Singapore Police Force shall deemed to be a police station. [114