How to complain about cellphone theft?
On an average, about 150 mobile phone instruments are either stolen or snatched or lost in the Chennai Metropolitan Police area. But not every loser approaches the police to lodge a complaint. What should the owners of mobile phones do when they lose their instrument? In the past two months, when the city police had to spare much of its manpower for poll duty, as many as 40 cellphone theft cases had been solved and instruments restored to owners. An officer of the Database Management Division of the Cyber Crime Wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) wing said while about 50 instruments are pocket picked in public places, about 30 are snatched from the owners. The remaining handsets are misplaced, he says. Last year, the Crime Records Bureau received about 3,000 complaints, and the Database Management Division received another 1,000 complaints, the police officials say. A sizeable number of complaints had been received from people travelling in buses on the Adyar-Guindy and Thorappakkam
