A SHENZHEN woman was detained after calling the police and falsely claiming that she killed her boyfriend, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

    The 20-year-old woman, surnamed Jia, called the police at around 1 a.m. Monday, saying that she killed her boyfriend in a rented apartment and she wanted to turn herself in, but she didn’t tell the police her location. Calls to her phone weren’t answered after she hung up.

    The police formed a task force to track down Jia, and they found her with her boyfriend in a rented apartment in Gongming Subdistrict, Guangming New Area at around 1 p.m. the same day.

    Jia said she made the claim to the police because she was stressed recently and she regretted the consequences of her behavior. She was given administrative detention for disrupting social order.

    According to the city’s police, around 33.9 percent of calls to police have been false reports this year. There have been 19 cases of harassing phone calls to the police this year. One person was held under criminal detention and four were given administrative detention. (Zhang Yang)