Security and police
❃ Security and police
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ရဲစခန်းဘယ်မှာလဲ
[ Ye sa khan be hma le? ] -
Where is the police station?
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အမှုဖွင့်ချင်တယ်
[ A mu phwin chin de ] -
I want to report a crime.
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ကျွန်တော်အလုခံရတယ်
[ Kya no a lu khan ya de ] -
I was robbed.
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အိတ်အခိုးခံရတယ်
[ Eik a kho khan ya de ] -
My bag was stolen.
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ခါးပိုက်နှိုက်ခံရတယ်
[ Kha baik hnaik khan ya de ] -
Someone picked my pocket.
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သူကျွန်တော့်ပိုက်ဆံယူသွားတယ်
[ Thu kya naw paik san yu thwa de ] -
He took my money.
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လိမ်လည်ခံရတယ်
[ Lein le khan ya de ] -
I was scammed.
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ရဲမှတ်တမ်းရေးပေးပါ
[ Ye hmat tan yei pay ba ] -
Please write a police report.
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ဒီမှာစီစီတီဗီရှိလား
[ Di hma CCTV shi la? ] -
Do you have CCTV cameras here?
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သူခိုးကိုကျွန်တော်မြင်လိုက်တယ်
[ Thu kho go kya no myin laik de ] -
I saw the thief.
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သူဟိုဘက်ကိုပြေးသွားတယ်
[ Thu ho bet ko pyay thwa de ] -
He ran that way.
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လုံခြုံမှုမရှိဘူးလို့ခံစားရတယ်
[ Lon chon mu ma shi bu lo khan sa ya de ] -
I feel unsafe.
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ဟိုတယ်ကိုလိုက်ပို့ပေးမလား
[ Hotel go laik po pay ma la? ] -
Can you accompany me to my hotel?
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လမ်းပျောက်နေတယ်
[ Lan pyauk ne de ] -
I have lost my way.
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ဘယ်ရောက်နေမှန်းမသိဘူး
[ Be yauk ne hman ma thi bu ] -
I don't know where I am.
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ကားပျက်သွားတယ်
[ Ka pyet thwa de ] -
My car broke down.
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ရန်ဖြစ်နေကြတယ်
[ Yan phyit ne gya de ] -
There is a fight.
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ရန်မဖြစ်ကြပါနဲ့
[ Yan ma phyit kya ba ne ] -
Don't fight.
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ကျွန်တော်ဘာအမှားမှမလုပ်ထားဘူး
[ Kya no ba a hma hma ma loke hta bu ] -
I didn't do anything wrong.
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နားလည်မှုလွဲတာပါ
[ Na le mu lwe da ba ] -
It's a misunderstanding.
While Myanmar is exceptionally safe for foreign tourists, characterized by remarkably low rates of violent crime against visitors, unfortunate incidents like petty theft, pickpocketing in crowded markets, or simply losing your valuables do occasionally happen. Navigating a police station in Myanmar to report such an event is a bureaucratic procedure that requires immense patience, cultural tact, and precise language. Your first action should be to ask your hotel or a local guide ရဲစခန်းဘယ်မှာလဲ (ye sa khan be hma le?) [jɛ́ sə kʰáɴ bɛ̀ m̥à lɛ́], meaning "Where is the police station?". Because English proficiency among local police officers can be very limited, especially outside of downtown Yangon, knowing how to articulate your situation in Burmese is essential. If you were a victim of theft, you must firmly state အမှုဖွင့်ချင်တယ် (a mu phwin chin de) [ʔə mḛ pʰwɪ̰ɴ tɕʰɪ̀ɴ dɛ̀], meaning "I want to report a crime." To explain what happened, you can use phrases like ကျွန်တော်အလုခံရတယ် (kya no a lu khan ya de) [tɕənɔ̀ ʔə lḛ kʰàɴ ja̰ dɛ̀] for "I was robbed," or identify the suspect by saying သူခိုးကိုကျွန်တော်မြင်လိုက်တယ် (thu kho go kya no myin laik de) [θə kʰó ɡò tɕənɔ̀ mjɪ̀ɴ laɪʔ dɛ̀], meaning "I saw the thief." However, the reality of the local justice system is that recovering stolen items like a lost smartphone or a dropped wallet is highly unlikely. Therefore, your primary goal at the police station is not necessarily to launch a massive criminal investigation, but rather to obtain the official documentation required by your travel insurance back home. It is absolutely imperative that you request a physical, stamped document by clearly asking ရဲမှတ်တမ်းရေးပေးပါ (ye hmat tan yei pay ba) [jɛ́ m̥aʔ táɴ jé pé pà], which translates to "Please write a police report." The police officers will usually sit you down, hand-write the report in an enormous ledger, and stamp it for you. Remaining calm, smiling respectfully, and avoiding aggressive demands will ensure the police officers go out of their way to assist you with the necessary paperwork, allowing you to salvage the situation and claim your insurance later.
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