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2023 OUTLINE OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

and counseling tasks would first be undertaken by social administration and education systems,
rather than continuing to be handled by the police and criminal justice systems. On September
14, 2022, the Regulation of the Establishment and Implementation of the Juvenile Counseling
Committee was released, which regulates the responsibilities, organizational structure, counseling

process, and court requests of the Juvenile Counseling Committee, in order to promote the effi-
cacy of related resources following the amendment of the Juvenile Justice Act.

(2) Criminal investigation

In 2022, the Executive Yuan promulgated the “Guidelines for New-Generation Fraud-Combating
Strategies” and established the “National Fraud-Combating Team” by uniting the MOI, the Nation-

al Communications Commission, the Financial Supervisory Commission, and the Ministry of Justice.
There are four dimensions of strategies: “to detect, to block, to prevent and to punish.” In 2022, a
total of 15,138 fraudsters from 1,635 cross-border and domestic groups were investigated. In 2023,
the NPA will continue to follow the guidelines and work with other ministries to combat fraud. More-
over, by analyzing fraud trends and targeting new patterns or commonly-used fraudulent approach-

es, nationwide anti-fraud projects and operations will be planned and executed.

The Minister of the MOI Inspected the NPA’s Fraud-Combating Work and Commended the Officers

As the authorities’ current priority is to prevent drug-related crimes, the NPA has been imple-
menting the “New Generation Anti-drug Strategy 2.0,” by tracing the flow of drugs to their sourc-

es and users, and blocking the cash flow, to achieve the ultimate goal of cutting the three flows of

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