Woman caught by Sheng Siong’s facial recognition tech after shoplifting 12 times gets week’s jail一名女子因在昇菘超市行窃12次，被超市的人脸识别技术抓获，被判入狱一周。
She stole items worth nearly $90 in total over 12 occasions from the Sin Ming Avenue outlet between May and Aug 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Published Oct 08, 2026, 02:19 PM
Updated Oct 08, 2026, 02:19 PM
Leong Seek Yuen stole groceries from the same Sheng Siong branch 12 times between May and August 2025, and its facial recognition CCTV technology helped identify her.
She was arrested after she returned to the outlet on Oct 1 that year.
Leong pleaded guilty to a theft charge, and was sentenced to a week in jail on Oct 8.
SINGAPORE - A shoplifter visited the same Sheng Siong supermarket branch on 12 occasions to steal groceries between May and Aug 2025, and was identified through its facial recognition CCTV technology .
An assistant supervisor at the Sin Ming Avenue outlet received an alert when gym coach Leong Seek Yuen, 45, returned there on Oct 1 that year, and she was arrested soon after.
On Oct 8, Leong, who has made full restitution, pleaded guilty to a theft charge and was sentenced to a week in jail. She had stolen groceries worth nearly $90 .
Leong was one of two women charged with theft in November 2025 after they were identified through the supermarket chain’s facial recognition CCTV technology.
The other shoplifter, who had gone to its Punggol Central outlet, was sentenced to eight days’ jail in May.
For the current case, State Prosecuting Officer Lee Cheng Wah told the court that between May 27 and Aug 12, 2025, Leong went to the Sin Ming Avenue outlet 12 times to shoplift meat products and drinks.
On each occasion, she went to a self-checkout kiosk with a shopping basket, and scanned some of the items. She did not scan the remaining groceries.
Leong paid for the scanned items before leaving the premises with them and the stolen items .
The supermarket’s CCTV cameras caught her shoplifting, and during a stock check on Sept 29, 2025, the assistant supervisor discovered some items were unaccounted for.
He reviewed the CCTV footage and received an alert when Leong returned on Oct 1 that year. He alerted the police and officers arrested her.
On Oct 8, defence lawyer Mitchell Leon Siu Kin told the court that Leong had been diagnosed with a form of depressive disorder, stressing she had made full restitution.
Sheng Siong has been using facial recognition technology since April 2024.
Shoplifting suspects are typically identified only after they leave the store with unpaid items.
Staff members trawl through security footage and identify the culprit, whose face is then flagged in the system.
When that person visits a Sheng Siong outlet again, the system alerts store managers.
Suspects’ faces are removed from the system after their arrest.
According to the police’s mid-year crime brief released in August , the number of shop theft cases has increased from 2,050 cases in the first half of 2025, to 2,095 in the first half of 2026.
Items typically stolen included food, drinks, clothes and personal care products.
The police said shop theft remains one of the top offences committed by youth, most of whom target places such as supermarkets and convenience stores.
For shoplifting, an offender can be jailed for up to seven years, and fined.
Shaffiq Alkhatib is The Straits Times’ court correspondent, covering mainly criminal cases heard at the State Courts.
发布于 2026 年 10 月 8 日下午 2:19
更新于2026年10月8日下午2:19
梁思远在 2025 年 5 月至 8 月期间，曾 12 次从同一家昇菘超市分店偷窃食品杂货，该超市的人脸识别闭路电视技术帮助确认了她的身份。
同年10月1日，她返回该门店后被捕。
梁某承认盗窃罪，并于10月8日被判处入狱一周。
新加坡——一名窃贼在 2025 年 5 月至 8 月期间 12 次光顾同一家昇菘超市分店行窃，并通过该超市的人脸识别闭路电视技术被识别出来。
当年10月1日，45岁的健身教练梁诗媛返回信明大道分店，该分店的一名助理主管收到警报，随后梁诗媛被逮捕。
10月8日，梁某已全额赔偿损失，并承认盗窃罪，被判处一周监禁。她偷窃的食品杂货价值近90美元。
2025年11月，梁某和另一名女子因盗窃罪被起诉，她们是通过该连锁超市的人脸识别闭路电视技术被识别出来的。
另一名在榜鹅中心分店行窃的扒手于 5 月份被判处 8 天监禁。
就本案而言，州检察官李成华告诉法庭，2025年5月27日至8月12日期间，梁某曾12次前往信明大道分店行窃肉类产品和饮料。
每次购物时，她都带着购物篮去自助结账机，扫描了一些商品，但没有扫描剩余的商品。
梁某在离开现场前支付了扫描物品的费用以及被盗物品的费用。
超市的监控摄像头拍下了她行窃的画面，2025 年 9 月 29 日，在一次库存盘点中，助理主管发现有些商品下落不明。
他查看了监控录像，发现梁某于当年10月1日返回，随即收到警报。他立即报警，警方逮捕了梁某。
10 月 8 日，辩护律师 Mitchell Leon Siu Kin 向法庭表示，梁女士被诊断患有抑郁症，并强调她已全额赔偿。
自 2024 年 4 月起，昇菘超市开始使用人脸识别技术。
通常情况下，只有在盗窃嫌疑人带着未付款的商品离开商店后，才会发现他们的身份。
工作人员仔细查看监控录像，找出肇事者，并在系统中标记其面部信息。
当该顾客再次光顾昇菘超市时，系统会通知店长。
嫌疑人被捕后，其面部信息将从系统中删除。
根据警方8月份发布的年中犯罪简报，商店盗窃案数量从2025年上半年的2050起增加到2026年上半年的2095起。
被盗物品通常包括食品、饮料、衣服和个人护理用品。
警方表示，商店盗窃仍然是青少年犯下的主要罪行之一，他们中的大多数人将目标锁定在超市和便利店等场所。
对于商店行窃，违法者可被判处最高七年监禁并处罚款。
沙菲克·阿尔哈提卜是《海峡时报》的法庭记者，主要报道国家法院审理的刑事案件。