April 9: Tourist police have received 370 complaints related to tourists so far since the beginning of the current fiscal year.    
Of them, 273 are related to the loss of goods, 49 related with theft, 11 related with cheating, five related with looting, 17 related with misbehavior, two related with attack, two related with accident, one related with threating, four related with missing people, one related with misconduct and one related with kidnaping, according to the Nepal Police Headquarters.    
Deputy Inspector General, Bhim Prasad Dhakal, spokesperson for the Nepal Police, shared that a total of 79 complaints were filed in the fiscal year 2077/78, 180 in fiscal year 2078/79 and 532 in fiscal year 2079/80. He added that most of the cases were related to the loss of documents and goods.    
The tourist police unit was formed to address the problems and complaints of tourists, to make their stay in Nepal safe and to promote tourism development, said Chief of Tourist Police Office, Bhrikutimandap, Narendra Kunwar.    
Tourist police provide necessary information and support to tourists, make regular patrolling at tourism areas as well as arrest those found involved in indecent and illegal activities at tourism areas and hand them over to the concerned offices for the action, he added.    
A tourist can dial the hotline no 1144 if they face any problem. -- RSS