Footage from surveillance and dashboard cameras helped identify suspects in more than 10,000 criminal cases last year, provisional data from the National Police Agency showed Thursday.
The number of suspected Penal Code violations that came to police attention in 2016 fell below 1 million for the first time in postwar history, the NPA also said, giving partial credit to the cameras.
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