Crime now arrives as a friend request, a familiar voice, a link too good to ignore. Policing it will take better machines, better-prepared personnel and a public that trusts us enough to talk.

Between April 13 and March 7, the 100 hotline in Kathmandu alone received 349,774 calls--178,510 required active police intervention.

The number of drug abusers in Nepal has been swelling even though sound and subtle narcotic drug policies and strategies have been in place for more than a decade.