January 10th is "Day 110".
Last year, about 8.5 million reports were received by police nationwide, an increase of more than 600,000 compared to the previous year, and it is believed that the relaxation of restrictions on movement due to the new corona has had an impact.
According to the National Police Agency, police received 8,502,927 calls to 110 from January to November last year, an increase of 656,000 from the same period in the previous year, an increase of about 8%. Did.
It seems that the relaxation of restrictions on movement due to the new corona has had an effect, and it has returned to the level of the first year of Reiwa before the spread of infection began.
In addition, the number of cases received by the system, which was introduced in October last year, to send videos of incidents and accident sites from the smartphone of the informant reached 622 in the two months until November.
Roughly half of the cases involved the protection of missing persons, including rescues by identifying locations from surrounding images sent by people in distress in the mountains, as well as license plates taken by victims in car hit-and-run cases. In some cases, suspects were identified from the police and led to arrests.
The National Police Agency will prepare for the full-scale introduction of the system in April this year, such as improving convenience.