The number of incidents reported to police by members of the public dropped 19.5 percent in 2005 on the year to 1.4 million, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
It is the first decrease in six years and was mainly due to a large drop in reports made about fraud and fraudulent business, the biggest category, the NPA said.
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