CRC/C/PAN/CO/3-4 71. The Committee recommends that the State party complete its law reform on human trafficking and smuggling and addresses the issue of sale of children as defined in the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, prostitution and pornography. It also recommends that all necessary measures be taken to ensure the enforcement of the law. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (known as the Palermo Protocol). Helplines 72. The Committee welcomes the establishment in 2009 of an emergency hotline for children (Tu Línea 147). However, the Committee is concerned that children’s access to this line is limited, as that it does not operate on a 24-hour-a-day basis. 73. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the 24-hour-a-day availability of line 147 for all children everywhere in the State territory, and that it promote awareness of how children can access it and seek help through it. Administration of juvenile justice 74. The Committee expresses its concern at the existence of an alarming social perception regarding an increase in juvenile delinquency, which is not grounded on reality or on official data in Panama. The Committee is deeply concerned at the various reforms to Law 40/1999, implemented due to this unjustified alarming perception and resulting in a weakening of the judicial provisions for children, and which are not in line with the Convention. In particular, it expresses concern regarding the provisions in Law 15/2007 and Law 6/2010 as well as other provisions on administration of juvenile justice that may lead to a denial of the rights of children in conflict with the law. The Committee is especially concerned at: (a) The reduction of the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 years (reform to art. 7, Law 40/1999); (b) The derogation of the provision which forbids the extension of provisional detention (reform to art. 52, Law 40/1999); (c) The widening of the scope of provisional detention to more offenses (reform to art. 58, Law 40/1999); (d) The possibility granted for extensions to investigate an alleged offense beyond the maximum time limit provided by law, and the elimination of a maximum time limit to investigate cases related to minor offenses (reform to art. 85, Law 40/1999); (e) The revocation of socio-educational sanctions in case of recidivism for certain offenses and the increase of the time in prison for aggravating circumstances (reform to art. 141, Law 40/1999); and (f) The abolition of the possibility that children who have turned 18 years old, and are sentenced to prison can conclude their sentence in a juvenile detention centre (reform to art. 151, Law 40/1999). 75. The Committee is particularly concerned with the conditions of the juvenile detention centres in the State party. The incidents in the Tocumen and Arco Iris youth detention centres mentioned in paragraphs 43 and 44 of these recommendations are of special concern, since investigations have not yet been initiated or reached its term, and those responsible have not been brought to justice. The Committee is concerned that the general conditions of pretrial and detention centres for children in conflict with the law are 15