Check your second-hand phone a stolen item

Police launch service to curb sales of stolen, missing cellphones. This service is an enhancement to its Handphone Imei Tracing System, or Hits, which began as a website service in 2006.

The system uses a cellphone's unique International Mobile Equipment Identity (Imei) number to identify phones that have been reported stolen.

To reveal the Imei number, key in *#06# on the cellphone.

To screen whether a mobile phone is a stolen item, SMS :

• For Singaporeans, permanent residents, employment-pass and work-permit holders, send an SMS to 74688 with the following :
• "SPFHITS(space)NRIC no./FIN no.(space)Imei no."

• For tourists or visitors, send an SMS to 74688 with these information :
• "SPFHITS(space)Identity no.(space)O(space)Imei no."

If gthe screening result says "Wanted", the public should lodge a report with the police immediately.