'Daily Recovery Crisis' Seoul Metropolitan Autonomous Police Committee Cooperates with Related Agencies for Security during Year-End and New Year

The 2nd Practical Meeting of Related Agencies Held
Seoul City, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Gather to Discuss 'Social Safety Measures for Crisis Situations in Daily Recovery Suspension' and 'Comprehensive Security Measures for Year-End and New Year'

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] On the 2nd, the Seoul Metropolitan Autonomous Police Committee held the '2nd Related Agencies Working Council' at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, attended by officials from Seoul City and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, and announced on the 3rd that they discussed social safety measures in response to the crisis situation of the suspension of daily recovery.

The Related Agencies Working Council of the Seoul Metropolitan Autonomous Police Committee is an organization established based on an ordinance, chaired by the Autonomous Police Committee to facilitate the smooth execution of autonomous police affairs and to coordinate tasks between local administration and police administration.

The 2nd meeting was divided into two parts: ▲ Social safety measures in response to the crisis situation of the suspension of daily recovery (Part 1) ▲ Comprehensive year-end and New Year security measures (Part 2), and focused on discussing cooperation matters for each detailed agenda.

First, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Public Order Division and Seoul City's Health and Medical Policy Division shared the status of bed management for mental emergency patients due to COVID-19 and the corresponding mental emergency response system. In addition, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Information Situation Division and Seoul City's General Affairs Division discussed cooperation plans to maintain a mutual cooperation system between local governments and the police throughout the entire process of assemblies and demonstrations from a quarantine perspective, aiming for stable assembly and demonstration sites. Furthermore, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Public Order Division and Seoul City's Food Policy Division discussed cooperation plans such as strengthening joint inspections and crackdowns on covert illegal business activities and quarantine rule violations at high-risk entertainment facilities.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Public Safety Division, the 112 Integrated Security Situation Room, and Seoul City's Special Task Force for Single-Person Households also discussed ways to activate the operation of the 'Safe Village Security Guard' project, which was launched in October to create a safe residential environment for single-person female households in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Women and Youth Division, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's Democratic Citizen Life Education Division, and Seoul City's Youth Policy Division plan to promote youth guidance and protection activities against deviant behaviors such as drinking and smoking during the year-end and New Year holidays when students are freed from academic pressure due to winter vacation.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Traffic Safety Division and Seoul City's Traffic Operation Division will implement special traffic safety measures to prevent traffic accidents such as drunk driving caused by frequent drinking parties during the phased daily recovery and year-end and New Year holidays until January next year. During this period, all available personnel including traffic patrol officers, traffic mobile units, motorcycles, and undercover patrol cars will be mobilized, with a particular focus on cracking down on drunk driving, motorcycle traffic violations, and pedestrian jaywalking, as well as providing guidance.

Kim Seong-seop and Lee Sang-ryul, co-chairs of the Working Council, said, "We will do our best to establish a cooperative system among related agencies to check the social safety net according to the phased daily recovery so that Seoul citizens can spend a safe and peaceful year-end and New Year holiday."

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