3) and arrest of flagrant offender (art. 212). In principle, arrests that restrain an individual’s body shall be warranted, so emergency arrests should be conducted on an exceptional basis in accordance with a strict interpretation of the requirements. 98. The Korean governments revised the “Criminal Procedure Act” in 2007 in relation to the Committee’s concluding observations on the second periodic report of Korea in 2006. Since then, the government has been strictly restricting emergency arrest and trying to prevent its abuse, and the number of persons under emergency arrest has declined to 25, 432 in 2007, 10,628 in 2015 and 5,014 in 2019. 20 99. However, the NHRCK has expressed its concerns about infringement of the body’s freedom by abuse of emergency arrest and urged the police to strictly abide by the urgent requirements – no time for warrant issuance – for its illegal emergency arrest21. 100. There are also criticisms of abuse of emergency arrests since warrants were not requested after unreasonable emergency arrest of a suspect. In order to confirm this, it is necessary to examine the proportion of persons who are released after the arrest without request for or issuance of warrant, but it is difficult to find the latest statistics. Questions 20 Korean National Police Agency, Korean Police Crime Statistics in 2019. 21 Emergency arrest of the accused whose escape concern is unclear based solely on investigation of complaint, and emergency arrest of a suspect who was voluntarily present at the police station and under investigation in the interrogation recording room 35