In a report by The Star, Ooi Geok Swan, 47, now wants the traffic summonses cancelled as the four men who gave chase on their motorcycles did not identify themselves as policemen and were not in their uniforms either.

Ooi, a single mother, said she was returning home at 3am when four men in plain clothes approached her car at a road junction in front of the Sungai Bakap Chinese cemetery in Nibong Tebal.

They knocked on her car window but did not identify themselves, she claimed, causing her to panic for her life, and make the decision to speed off.

“I panicked and sped off as it was 3am and there was no one else in the area.

“While driving, I noticed them following me on their motorcycles and I decided to go to the Jawi police station for help,” she told a press conference called by Jawi assemblyman Soon Lip Chee at his service centre in Taman Bukit Panchor yesterday, The Star reported.

In her haste to reach the police station as quickly as possible, Ooi beat two red lights.

She also noticed that two of the motorcyclists followed her into the compound of the police station where they identified themselves as policemen and asked why she had sped away from them.

“I told them that I did not know that they were policemen, as they had not identified themselves or shown their authority cards,” The Star quoted her as saying.

She was subsequently served with two traffic summonses by a woman police constable at the station.

A few hours later, Ooi returned to the same police station with a friend to lodge a report on the incident but claimed police there refused to accept her report. They also told her to settle the two traffic summonses instead.

Assemblyman Soon said he would write to state police chief Chuah Ghee Lye to initiate an investigation into the case and to cancel the traffic summonses issued to Ooi.

He said since the policemen did not identify themselves, Ooi sped off in fear to the nearest police station.