The number of muggings and rapes reported to crime hotline Meld Misdaad Anoniem shot up in the first six months of 2010, reports nu.nl on Tuesday. Reported muggings rose 134% to 82 and rapes by 228% to 59.

‘These seem like small numbers,’ a spokesman told the site, ‘but they are not crimes people tend to report anonymously.’
In total the hotline received 6,300 reports in the first half of 2010, the same number as the year earlier period. In 2009 48% more reported crimes were solved than in 2008.