101. Please provide countermeasures to prevent abuse of emergency arrests, and detailed statistics to confirm just law enforcement of emergency arrests including obtaining warrants after the arrests and issuance proportion. Issue 12: Supplementing Legal Grounds for Law Enforcement Officers’ Use of Equipment and Prohibiting Excessive Use Status 102. The use of equipment by law enforcement officers, including judicial officers, should be limited to minimum necessary since it may limit the freedom of a person’s body and cause torture, depending on the method of use. 103. For police officers, legal grounds for the use of equipment is prescribed in the “Act on the Performance of Duties by Police Officers”, and for prison officers in correctional facilities, it is stipulated in the “Administration and Treatment of Correctional Institution Inmates Act” and subordinate laws. Despite the legal grounds, there are still concerns about excessive use of the equipment. According to the “Guideline for Use of Handcuffs”, the police should arrest a flagrant offender with front handcuffs, not rear handcuffs. In addition, the guideline only stipulates tying ropes above upper bodies but not lower bodies, which leads to cases that law enforcement officers such as probation officers arbitrarily bind the upper and the lower body of the suspect. The NHRCK recommended that the binding of a suspect in a manner not existing in the guidelines is the use of excessive equipment that causes pain to a suspect on 9 May 2018 and 20 December 2018. 36

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