On the 27th, the 'Pan-Government Anti-Corruption Council in the Safety Sector' Held...Review of First Half Performance by Agencies and Expansion of Cooperation

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 26th that it will hold the '6th Pan-Government Anti-Corruption Council in the Safety Sector' to review the achievements of each agency in the first half of this year and to expand cooperation, while operating a pan-government consultative body to eradicate corruption in the safety sector.

So far, to eradicate corruption threatening public safety, the government launched the 'Council' in October 2018, involving 14 central ministries and 17 metropolitan cities and provinces, and since 2019, 43 public institutions have also participated in the council.

At this 6th council meeting, they will review the key tasks promoted by central ministries and metropolitan cities and provinces in the first half of this year, the formation and operation achievements of the councils within metropolitan cities and provinces, and discuss the direction of key tasks to be promoted by public institutions in the second half of the year. Central ministries have been conducting safety inspections focusing on the implementation of their respective safety systems, while metropolitan cities and provinces have selected safety-vulnerable areas suited to regional characteristics as key tasks for safety inspections.

Participating agencies detected 5,246 cases of corruption in the safety sector and plan to take strict measures such as requesting disciplinary actions against supervised agencies and individuals by each institution. The 43 public institutions participating in the council will refer to the announcements by central ministries and metropolitan cities and provinces to revise and supplement their ongoing key tasks and report them at the 7th council scheduled for the second half of the year.

To spread anti-corruption work in the safety sector and promote safety inspections tailored to regional characteristics, metropolitan cities and provinces are forming their own councils centered on metropolitan cities and provinces, involving cities, counties, and local public enterprises. So far, 14 metropolitan cities and provinces have formed their own councils, expanding the number of participating institutions in the pan-government council from the existing 74 to 412 institutions, which is expected to establish a dense safety monitoring network.

Additionally, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety is promoting the establishment of a safety inspection team in Suwon City, the first among basic local governments this year, following the installation of safety inspection teams in metropolitan cities and provinces in 2018 to strengthen local governments' safety monitoring functions.

Kim Hee-gyeom, Director of the Disaster and Safety Management Headquarters at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, evaluated, “This online council will be a good opportunity to review the pan-government safety monitoring system so that participating institutions can focus on responding to COVID-19 without neglecting disaster safety management,” and added, “We must promote work that allows the public to tangibly feel the results, such as institutional improvements simultaneously with corruption detection.”

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