By the end of the year, people who have lost personal items can visit the police's online lost-and- found picture gallery to see if the item has been picked up by a good samaritan, and call a new hotline to reclaim it.

The one-stop lost-and-found initiative is an effort to streamline the matching process between lost items and their owners to free up officers so they can focus on core policing duties.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.