Officials from the National Police Agency said Sunday that new investigating teams have been established to react to stalking and sexual violence crimes. The National Office of Investigative reconfigured its juvenile crime and gender-based violence investigation division into four sub teams to combat stalking, sexual assault, domestic violence, and abuse offences earlier this month.
"The division has been tasked with handling stalking and dating violence crime cases since the implementation of the new anti-stalking law in October of last year," an official said, adding that the units were created to better handle heinous and brutal crimes that have shocked the nation in recent months.
After two recent deaths were blamed on failures to provide sufficient police protection, Seoul police evaluated all outstanding stalking and sexual crime cases again last month to check if the victims are receiving sufficient protection.
According to police, the number of reports of stalking-related offences increased fourfold between both the implementation of the anti-stalking law in late October and the end of 2021.
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