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Crimes where handphones were taken fell from 4,825 to 4,594 cases in 2006. Handphone crimes dropped most notably for cheating and related offences (from 343 to 253 cases), robbery (from 488 to 441 cases) and housebreaking (from 183 to 142 cases). The drop in handphone crimes, may be due, in part, to the enhanced public education on such crimes as well as the implementation of new police initiatives such as the online database of the IMEI numbers of stolen handphones for easy screening. However, handphone crimes remain an area of concern because of the continued high mobile phone penetration rate in Singapore 9 .
9 Infocommunications Development Authority (IDA), Singapore listed the handphone penetration rate in Singapore as 101.5% in Nov 2006. |
