SINGAPORE - Despite a Traffic Police (TP) officer standing less than 30m away from them, a couple brazenly jaywalked across a busy four-lane road near Boon Keng MRT station on July 13.

They weaved around a lorry, and motorcycles whizzed past as they dashed to the other side of the road, where another TP officer was waiting for them.

Their particulars were taken down and they were each fined $50 for jaywalking.

The couple was among 10 people, aged 24 to 80, who were each offered a composition fine of $50 for jaywalking during an anti-jaywalking operation conducted by TP in Serangoon Road on July 13.

During the operation, which The Straits Times was invited to, at least 20 people jaywalked or tried to jaywalk before being stopped by TP officers.

For almost an hour from 1.30pm, five TP officers patrolled the area outside Boon Keng MRT, advising some who were about to jaywalk to use the signalised pedestrian crossing instead.

One woman in her 70s, who was hobbling while holding an umbrella, was about to step onto the busy road when she was stopped by a TP officer. He told her to use the pedestrian crossing, which was less than 50m away.