Police Release Quarterly Crime Occurrence and Arrest Status... Rapid Identification of Latest Crime Trends

National Police Agency, National Investigation Headquarters.

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] The National Police Agency announced on the 14th that it will disclose quarterly crime occurrence and arrest status on its website starting from the third quarter of this year.

Until now, the police have released the "Police Crime Statistics" once a year in August after adjustments. However, there were opinions that it was difficult to quickly grasp the latest crime trends.

The ad hoc statistics disclosed by the police include the number of crimes, arrests, and arrested individuals by crime type and metropolitan/provincial police agency. The third quarter ad hoc statistics for this year were released this month, and thereafter, they will be posted on the website in PDF format at the beginning of January, April, July, and October each year.

However, the police explained that the ad hoc statistics disclosed quarterly may differ in some aspects such as crime classification from the annual crime statistics and may be supplemented later, making direct comparison with annual statistics difficult.

Additionally, the police plan to carry out a project next year to improve the outdated crime statistics system. Through this, they aim to enhance the accuracy of statistics and user convenience by upgrading error prevention functions during data entry and analysis functions between items.

They also intend to improve item values such as the relationship between suspects and victims, victim age, crime occurrence location, and stolen items to reflect the latest crime characteristics and provide highly useful statistics.

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