Amid growing anxiety among the public due to the occurrence of a series of wide-area robberies, the National Police Agency expanded the target of "harmful information" on the Internet to include postings of "dark part-timers" recruiting members for robbery, and deleted them. We have decided to start on the 15th, two weeks ahead of schedule, to strengthen measures such as making requests.
In a series of wide-area robberies, it has become clear that the crime group recruited members by posting "high rewards" on SNS and recruiting members through "dark part-time jobs."
In response to this situation, the National Police Agency has moved forward the original schedule from next month by two weeks to strengthen measures such as expanding the scope of "harmful information" on the Internet and requesting site administrators to delete it. , decided to start on the 15th.
Targets treated as "harmful information" include content suggesting requests for "robbery," "murder," and "trafficking in persons." New information will be added.
Of these, "robbery" is assumed to be a slang word for robbery such as "tataki", and the "Cyber Patrol Center", which the National Police Agency has outsourced, checks postings on the Internet.
In addition, we are accepting reports from the general public for such information, and the National Police Agency is rushing to take measures as public anxiety increases due to successive robbery cases.