First Nationally Designated Police Cemetery
Gyeongnam Hamyang-gun Yurim-myeon 'Hamyang Police Cemetery'... Reinterment of 13 Unclaimed Police Officers
[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] For the first time among police cemeteries, the 'Gyeongnam Hamyang Nationally Managed Cemetery (photo)' has been designated as a nationally managed cemetery.
According to the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs on the 12th, the Hamyang Police Cemetery located in Yurim-myeon, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam, was first established in Hamyang-eup in 1976 to commemorate the spirits of 13 unclaimed police officers, including Chief Inspector Jin Gi-chan, Chief Inspector Kim Bong-jo, and Inspector Kim Ok-jin, who died in the anti-communist guerrilla operations in Jirisan during the Korean War.
In 2009, the Hamyang Police Association purchased the land and relocated the cemetery to its current location. They have been managing it by holding memorial ceremonies annually on Memorial Day, Police Day (October 21), and Police Retirees Day (November 21).
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With this designation as a nationally managed cemetery, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs plans to include a budget for maintaining the burial mounds, tombstones, perimeter stones, and repairing the access road, and to manage the site systematically. Among the 58 joint cemeteries scattered outside national cemeteries for national merit recipients, the number of nationally managed cemeteries has increased to 11 with the addition of the Hamyang Police Cemetery.
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