Shake your smartphone to report and dispatch... Ministry of Justice operates alert system for electronic supervision subjects

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] A national safety service will be introduced that issues an alert by checking whether there is a sex offender within a 20-meter radius when a citizen in danger of sexual crimes shakes their smartphone more than three times. When an alert is triggered, the situation is monitored through CCTV, and a probation officer is dispatched depending on the scene.

On the 26th, the Ministry of Justice announced that it will pilot the "Electronic Supervision Life Safety Service" using this system in some areas of Gyeonggi-do and only for sex offenders wearing electronic anklets.

This service works by transmitting the reporter's location information in real time to the electronic supervision system when the smartphone is shaken more than three times, and analyzing whether there is an electronically supervised subject within a 20-meter radius based on the reporter's location. In case of an incident, the location tracking control center contacts the electronically supervised subject to prevent the crime attempt, and if on-site verification is necessary, a probation officer is dispatched. The measures by local governments and police remain the same as before, but faster responses are possible when risks arise from electronically supervised subjects.

This service, which will operate from the 28th, can be used immediately by installing the "Safe Return Home (Gyeonggi-do)" app on a smartphone. Anyone can install it regardless of address, but the pilot service is only available if the service area in Gyeonggi-do is registered as the residence when installing the app. There are plans to link with Seoul City in the second half of this year.

The Ministry of Justice expects that this opportunity will compensate for the limitations of the current electronic supervision, which cannot know what the electronically supervised subjects are doing. The current electronic supervision system can know where the subjects are through real-time location information collection but cannot know what they are doing.

On this day, Park Beom-gye, Minister of Justice, visited the Location Tracking Central Control Center located in Hwikyung-dong, Seoul, to check the preparations for the pilot service and urged, "During the pilot operation period, please do your best to comprehensively analyze the effectiveness and shortcomings of this system to create an environment where citizens can live more safely from crime."

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