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You may have seen him in his police uniform outside supermarkets, provision shops and other retail outlets. 

In fact, many women have even swooned over the more than 800 standees of Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Ryan Koh who became the Singapore Police Force’s poster boy to fight shop theft more than a year ago.

But sorry ladies, the cop who has been bestowed the nickname “Yan Dao (handsome in Hokkien dialect) policeman” is officially off the market.

A Facebook post made on Saturday afternoon (2 April 2016) read “Sorry ladies…poster boy is taken today”, and included two photographs of ASP Koh with whom appeared to be his bride, both gamely posing alongside the famous standee.

The post was made by a netizen named Tan Shiwei, a friend of ASP Koh, who tagged the St Andrew’s Cathedral as what seems to be the wedding venue.

It has since been shared more than 880 times and received over 1,300 likes.

According to Mr Tan, a 32-year-old filmmaker, Sabrina, ASP Koh’s wife is a police officer as well.

Reactions to the post have been wide-ranging.

One netizen wrote of ASP Koh’s new wife: “The only crime that the bride commited was stealing his heart. Congrats to both of them!”

Another wote: “My wife is sooo sadddddd.”

Even satirical writer-actor and self-proclaimed “blogfather of Singapore” Mr Brown wished the couple happy nuptials.

In a Facebook post, he said: “Everybody wish our favourite ‪#‎CardboardConstable‬ a blessed and happy marriage! So cute!”

In a New Paper report published on Feb 18 last year, ASP Koh said that he rarely gets recognised in public probably because he does not “wear the peaked hat and do that (stern) expression all the time”.

He added that friends and family update him whenever his standee is featured in new memes. He also said that he felt that the standee was a “new and unconventional method” of getting the word out on crime prevention.

This story first appeared on AsiaOne