Safety - The Definitive Guide to Moving to Southeast Asia: Cambodia - page 27

If you do fall victim to bag snatching, don't hold on. The contents of any bag can be re-
placed. Your body and your health can't.
Ifyouexperienceacrime,you'llhavetocontacttheTouristPolice(0977780002)inorder
toobtainapolicereportifyouwanttoclaimitonyourinsurance.You'llprobablybeasked
to pay a bribe to the police officer in order to get the report (somewhere in the region of $5
- $10).
I have a friend who caught the woman who snatched her bag and ended up spending hours
inthepolicestation,followedbyatriptothejail,followedbyatriptothecourt.Sheended
up getting her bag back with most of the contents but had to pay a “fee” to the police as
well as spend a lot of her time dealing with it.
Here's a list of emergency numbers that may be useful.
Police: 117 (from landlines), T: [phone]; [phone] (from mobiles)
Fire: 118 (from landlines), T: [phone] (from mobiles)
Ambulance: 119 (from landlines) T: [phone] (from mobiles)
Tourist police: [phone] or [phone]
Full list: http://www.phnompenh.gov.kh/phnom-penh-city-emergency-useful-num-
bers-24-hrs-169.html
(NOTE: Theinternational telephonedialingcodeforCambodiais855.Whencallingfrom
overseas, drop the zero before the phone number. When dialing within the country, dial
zero and the eight digits which follow).
Other than petty theft, there's another hazard to being a pedestrian in Cambodia - traffic.
It's mostly a source of amusement, as I've never seen anything quite like it - tuktuks drive
the wrong way on one-way roads, motos carry everything from pigs to six-foot plates of
glass to their entire families (the most I've seen is six), and luxury SUVs believe they own