Police Deploy Riot Squads for Year-End Events... Ensuring Crowd Safety Management
Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Migeun-dong, National Police Agency Lobby
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[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Jo] The police will deploy riot squads to manage crowd safety at Christmas and New Year's events held during the year-end and New Year period.
On the 23rd, the National Police Agency announced that it expects about 500,000 people to visit 37 locations nationwide this weekend, including Myeongdong, Gangnam Station, and Hongdae in Seoul, and Gwangbok-ro in Busan, for Christmas. To manage the crowds, 656 police officers and 8 riot squads will be deployed. For the New Year, it is expected that about 1.24 million people will attend events at 269 locations nationwide, including sunset, bell-ringing, and sunrise events at Hyangilam in Yeosu, Bosingak in Seoul, and Jeongdongjin. The police are reviewing the scale of personnel deployment in consultation with local governments and others.
Even for events without organizers, if crowd congestion is expected in certain areas, the local government in charge has been instructed to hold a local safety committee meeting. Additionally, during expected peak crowd times, the police will analyze abnormal signs such as repeated reports and will respond with full force from the stage of potential accidents by reporting and disseminating information. The police also plan to prioritize applying safety management techniques from the 'Crowd Safety Management Manual' being promoted by the Police Great Innovation Task Force (TF). Key crowd management techniques include ▲maximizing deployment of available personnel and equipment with the local police chief on-site to command ▲establishing real-time information sharing and situation dissemination systems between police stations and local governments ▲actively utilizing crowd management equipment such as broadcast lighting vehicles.
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A police official stated, "We will do our best to safely manage all year-end and New Year events without a single safety accident," and added, "We ask citizens to actively cooperate with police order maintenance guidance and control, just as they did during the last World Cup street cheering events."
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