With a few days left in the year, Maldives Police Service has started a special operation in Male’ City to reduce crime in the coming year.

Police said that the operation that launched yesterday was in light of recent spike in theft and so the city will be patrolled to reduce the crime for the coming year.

During this operation, people will be stopped and questioned along with random checks on vehicles according to the police.

While a special operation is underway due to the recent crime wave, police did not say for how long the operation will be in effect.