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Because the provisions of Article 85-1 of the Juvenile Justice Act were deleted, since June 19,
2020, the act is no longer applicable to cases involving children. In response, the NPA issued the
precautions that should be taken by police departments when dealing with criminal cases involving
children under 12 years of age. On February 24, 2021, the “Regulations of Juvenile Deviant Behavior

Prevention and Counseling” were proclaimed to make sure that the prevention and counseling work
would first be carried out by social administration and education systems, instead of continuing to
be dealt with by the police and criminal justice systems. In addition, the “Regulations of the Estab-
lishment and Implementation of Juvenile Counseling Committee” have been drafted to ensure the

effective use of related resources after the Juvenile Justice Act was amended.

Lin Yun-Ju, 2020 Olympic Medalist in Table Tennis, Crime Prevention Campaign
Serving as an Anti-drug Ambassador

(2) Crime investigation
In response to the rapid rise of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) pandemic in
Taiwan on May 21, 2021, the NPA ramped up the investigation of misinformation about the pan-

demic. From May 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021, the police had investigated 458 cases of online
misinformation regarding COVID-19.

In order to grasp the occurrence and investigation of crowd-fighting cases within each local

police department’s jurisdiction in a real-time manner, the NPA may use the analysis function to
look into people repeatedly involved in fighting cases to set up connections among cases and
involved persons, trace the source, and identify the illegal organization behind. The NPA has inte-
grated databases containing crowd-fighting, drugs, juvenile delinquency, and organized crimes, in

a bid to augment the connection analysis between cases and maximize its power of investigation.

In 2021, the NPA continued to integrate its fraud investigation and prevention capabilities,
and flexibly adjusted the focus of investigation according to the social order at each stage, in or-

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