on 25.05.2007
CYBERJAYA: Handphone thieves and their fences may soon be out of business.
A national database for lost and stolen handphones will be set up and any handphone reported lost will be completely disabled. This means a stolen handphone cannot be sold to anyone to be used even with a new SIM card, said Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chairman Datuk Dr Halim Shafie.
Similar schemes launched in Britain and Australia had proven to be successful. Statistics in Britain had shown that in the first six months following the launch of the programme in November 2002, almost 500,000 lost or stolen mobile phones were blocked.
In Australia, there was a 23% drop in mobile phone thefts within 12 weeks of the launch of the scheme.
Dr Halim said the Government was setting up the database to curb the alarming increase in handphone thefts in the country. Last year, some 100,000 handphones were reported lost; the actual figure could be much higher than that as most Malaysians are reluctant to report the loss of items like handphones.
The move will also incorporate a nationwide handset blocking service, meaning that those who lose their handphones will be able to render the devices useless upon reporting their loss to the database operators.
Police cripple car and house break-in syndicates
KUALA LUMPUR: Two syndicates specialising in car and house break-ins as well as motorcycle thefts have been crippled by the Sentul police since May 14.
Sentul OCPD Asst Comm K. Kumaran said 10 people were arrested at various places in the Klang Valley.
He said the first syndicate carried out car and house break-ins and was smashed when police nabbed three men in front of a shop on May 14.
The arrest led police to nab another two members of the syndicate hours later.
They also seized seven laptops, and 21 mobile phones.
Fujian couple caught with fake DVDs
KUALA LUMPUR: Looking at their passports and seeing the number of Malaysian immigration stamps on them, you would think they were just tourists who fell in love with the country.
But yesterday, a husband and wife from Fujian, China, were caught red-handed peddling pirated DVDs in Cheras here.
City commercial crime chief, Asst Comm Mohd Aris Ramli said the 25-year-old woman, who was toting a bag with 303 DVDs, was arrested at a restaurant in Taman Maluri.
“Half an hour later, a team led by Chief Insp Rasha Azwadi Shafii raided a disused mechanic shop in Taman Maluri and found a 29-year-old man there, with 4,682 DVDs of the latest English and Chinese movies.”
ACP Mohd Aris added that the couple has been in and out of the country no fewer than three times this year and 11 times since 2005.
Woman driver survives plunge from car park
PENANG: A 27-year-old woman miraculously survived when her Proton Iswara plunged from the sixth floor of Mutiara Heights multi-storey car park in Jelutong here.
Clerk Jenny Tan, who broke her left arm, was said to have been negotiating a sharp turn at her flat's car park at about 8.15am yesterday when she lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into a wall. The car landed on its top, with both the front and rear badly damaged.
Tan's 32-year-old husband, who declined to be named, said his wife could have accidentally stepped on the accelerator or the brakes might have failed.
A housewife said she was on her way home after a morning walk when she suddenly heard a loud crash.
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