Rwanda National Police (RNP) has provided toll free numbers to the general public, a common practice in any police organization worldwide yet reports say some individuals use them what they are no meant to.

RNP recent report indicates that 1,092 calls intended to insult police.

Regarding the issue, The RNP Spokesperson, CP Jean Bosco Kabera warns that �we have a technology that helps us to track the person making any call directed to us. So, who call us stand warned that any useless call can be tracked and the author punished.�

Further, the practice of placing wrong calls impedes the purpose the toll free numbers are meant to serve.

Police showed last week that Last week, police presented a report according to which, between October 11 � 18, 2019 the force received 192, 181 calls in total.

Of them however, 159, 841 calls intended to seek the police services, or in another words, they were genuine calls.
The remaining 32,240 calls were diverting to other things, or in other words, they were wasted calls.

The crimes committed on phone call are punished, among others, under law n� 60/2018 of 22/8/2018 on prevention and punishment of cyber crimes.