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Policing

drugs. All police departments are devoted to cracking down on drug-related crimes and finding
out the dark figure of crimes. In 2022, the police uncovered 38,088 drug-related cases, arrested
39,964 suspects, and seized drugs totaling 12,172.44 kilograms. (Table 7-4)

Table 7-4 Results of Investigating Drug-related Cases

Year Number of Cases Number of Suspects Seized Drugs (Kg)
2018 55 480 59 106 20 596.64

2019 47 035 49 131 15 929.37

2020 45 489 47 779 13 305.71
2021 38 644 40 987 8 332.55

2022 38 088 39 964 12 172.44

Increase/Decrease Percentage (%)
from 2021 to 2022 -1.44 -2.50 +46.08

The number of new drug users had been reduced from 11,965 in 2018 to 6,596 in 2022. This shows
that the New Generation Anti-drug Strategy of the Executive Yuan has proved effective. In addi-
tion, in 2022, the police busted 34 drug factories across Taiwan, investigated 10 suspects in 5 cases

abroad, and seized 1,239 kilograms of drugs.

The NPA will continue to keep track of the latest information on drugs and make rolling adjust-
ments to all kinds of anti-drug strategies, focusing on combating drug-related gangs and tracing
masterminds of the crime, actively promoting the “Police Organization Work Plan of Strengthening

Effectiveness in Drug Enforcement,” the “Community Anti-drug Project,” and other important work,
in cluding preventing drug-related activities in places of business, taking over cross-border drug par-
cel cases, and funding drug urine tests conducted by local departments. The NPA will also make use
of the collaborative platforms to trace sources of drugs while making investigations and continue to
expand the function of its drug database to effectively increase the capacity of its investigations on

drug-related crimes.

Compared with the cases in 2021, the number of violent crimes decreased, while the numbers of
all criminal cases, thefts and frauds showed increases in occurrence in 2022. (Table 7-5)

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