Richard Lim Beng Gee (; 29 November 1951 - 16 January 2016) was a police detective in the

Singapore Police Force The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is the national and principal Police, law enforcement agency responsible for the prevention of crime and law enforcement in the Republic of Singapore. It is the country's lead agency against organised crime; hum ...

Biography

Lim was born in

Penang Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay Peninsula. Th ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. At the age of 20, he travelled to

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

for a job interview with the Police Force, and joined the police force in 1972. During his 31-year career, he helped solve many notable crimes, such as the case of

Anthony Ler Anthony Ler Wee Teang ( – 13 December 2002) was a Singaporean convicted murderer who hired a youth to murder his wife, 30-year-old real-estate agent Annie Leong Wai Mun, who was in the midst of a divorce with him. Ler's motive was to become ...

, who paid a 15-year youth to kill his wife Annie Leong in 2001. Lim retired from the police force in 2003 due to his worsening diabetes. On 16 January 2016, Lim, aged 65, died from a heart attack.

Notable cases

Murder of Yeu Lam Ching On 25 March 1988, at Bukit Timah, 49-year-old lorry driver Yeu Lam Ching (杨云清 Yáng Yúnqīng) was robbed and murdered by two men. The two men, Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman and Mazlan Maidun, were swiftly arrested and charged with murder. Mazlan, ...

* Murder of Lee Kok Cheong * Oriental Hotel murder *

Murder of Lee Kok Yin On 22 January 1995, 47-year-old Lee Kok Yin (李国贤 Lǐ Guóxián), a taxi driver, was murdered by four Thai workers during an attempted robbery at Woodlands, Singapore. After four months of investigation, two of the four suspects were arreste ...

* 1999 Bukit Timah kidnapping * Murders of Koh Ngiap Yong and Jahabar Sathick *

case

References

{{Reflist Singaporean police officers 1951 births 2016 deaths