From April 15, Police will implement measures to apprehend defaulters who fail to settle their outstanding fines and who are wanted for non-payment warrants.

The measures include:

* a comprehensive action checklist for warrant execution that will be issued for compliance by frontline officers;

* close monitoring of execution in the frontline divisions; and,

* stepped-up action to locate and arrest defaulters wanted for non-payment warrants at immigration checkpoints.

The arrangements are made in response to the recommendation made by the Director of Audit on the execution of non-payment warrants by Police.

Police have also worked out an operational plan to locate and arrest serious cases of payment defaulters wanted for a multiple number of non-payment warrants upon their arrival to avoid jeopardising smooth passenger traffic at immigration checkpoints. This course of action will be reviewed at a later stage.