Koa Fung Chew, PPA, PBS, founder and Director of Polygraph Investigative Services, is a retired Superintendent of Police with the Singapore Police Force with more than 45 years of practical experience in interviewing and polygraph testing. While in active service, he held senior positions, including Chief Polygraph Examiner and Head of the specialist Interrogation Unit in the Ministry of Home Affairs where he dealt with important criminal cases, terrorism, espionage, internal investigations, personnel screening etc. He had also served as the Head of the Technical Division.
A certified polygraph examiner and polygraph instructor, he was the first Singaporean to be trained in the polygraph. He received his polygraph training in 1977 at the American Institute of Polygraph Technology and Forensic Psychophysiology at Michigan, USA and the Israel Polygraph Institute. He had subsequently served as a government polygraph consultant for many years.
Since 1974 till now, Supt (Ret) Koa has also trained more than a thousand local as well as foreign law enforcement officers in the art of interrogation and interviewing.
(See details and list of prominent Government clients).
Always results-driven, Supt (Ret) Koa has helped government agencies as well as private sector organisations
crack many important high profile cases with his interviewing and polygraph skills. He travels overseas frequently to help government agencies, multi-national corporations, top legal firms, millionaires, and
ordinary private individuals to solve difficult cases, especially cases involving corporate "insider crimes" like cybercrimes, theft of company money and properties, sabotage and corruption..
Supt (Ret.) Koa is a qualified Primary
Instructor and the former Assistant Director at the American Institute of Polygraph Technology and Forensic Psychophysiology,
Michigan, USA. He has trained a few hundred government polygraph examiners, including those from Singapore, China, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. He is the former Vice President (Private) of the Singapore Association of Polygraphers and a member of the
British & European Polygraph Association (BEPA).
For his outstanding service to the Singapore government, Supt (Ret.) Koa has won many national awards,
including the Public Administration Medal (Bronze), Minister of Home Affairs Commendation Certificate for
work excellence, Good Service Medal, and Commissioner of Police Commendation and High Commendation Certificates.
For his service to
the government after his retirement, he was awarded the Minister of Home Affairs Commendation Certificate in 2003 for work related to counter-terrorism. (Please see photo gallery below.)
Supt (Ret.) Koa comes from Electronics Engineering background. Although he belongs to the Pioneer Generation of Police Officers, he makes it a point to update his professional skills and knowledge by attending
seminars and courses. He has a passion for computer programming and Internet Technology, which comes in handy when conducting in-depth questioning of IT professionals in cybercrime cases. In anticipation of even greater increase in
cybercrimes driven by AI, in Oct 2023, he successfully completed a course conducted by Nanyang Technology University (NTU) on Developing Applications in Artificial Intelligence.
The programme codes for this responsive design website is written by him in 2001. Fast forward to 2023, he has acquired advanced programming
skills to develop production standard e-commerce platform based on the latest high performance Adobe Magento 2.4 architecture. Sample website developed by Supt (Ret.) Koa is at Qoosales.com.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Received The Best Government-Sponsored Polygraph Training from US and Israeli Experts.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Fung Chew receiving National Day Bronze Medal from late President Benjamin Sheares.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Fung Chew received Work Excellence Award from former Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Receiving Graduation and Top Student Prize in 2014 for Web Technology.
Supt (Ret.) Koa successfully completed course in Developing Intelligent Applications.
Supt (Ret.) Koa (extreme left), a Pioneer Generation Office Celebrating SG50 With Singapore DPM Teo Chee Hian.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Received The Best Government-Sponsored Polygraph Training from US and Israeli Experts.
Supt (Ret.) Koa received Commissioner of Police High Commendation Award for Outstanding Work.
Supt (Ret.) Koa again received Commissioner of Police High Commendation Award for Outstanding Work.
Supt (Ret.) Koa Fung Chew is a Certified Primary Instructor by the American Polygraph Association.
Polygraph Investigative Services Received Wide Coverage in Singapore English Press Reports.
Polygraph Investigative Services Received Wide Coverage in Singapore Chinese Press Reports.
Supt (Ret) Koa Featured on Channel I (2003), Kiss 92 Radio Station(2013) and Channel News Asia (2 Jan 2015)
Supt (Ret.) Koa's polygraph expertise was used in a CSI detective series shot in Singapore.
Supt (Ret.) Koa was featured in Channel News Asia's programme First Look Asia on 2 Jan 2015.
Our team of local and foreign Polygraph Examiners
are highly experienced and qualified. They have extensive experience in law enforcement and
corporate cases. Our team includes professional examiners from Singapore, USA and India. We
are able to conduct more than 90 lie detector tests per week. We have the expertise to conduct in-depth
investigative interviews and polygraph examinations on Cybercrimes.
