Goh joined the Singapore Police Force on 2 January 1952 as a woman constable, just over a month after she had completed her Senior Cambridge examinations, despite her being seventeen at the time, while the age requirement was eighteen.
[1] Her parents were against her joining the police force, as they believed that being a policeman was a "man's job".
[2] She spent five years with the Criminal Investigation Department before being transferred to the Central Police Station to head the women operation recruits, and later moved to the police academy to train woman constable recruits.
[6] In 1983, under her leadership, the Anti-Vice Enforcement Unit was awarded its first certificate of commendation by Police Commissioner Goh Yong Hong.
[8] Goh retired on 4 January 1988, with her role as head of the Anti-Vice Enforcement Unit being taken over by Deputy Superintendent Yee Teck Yong.