Seoul Police Provide 'Youth Drug Prevention' Education to School Police Officers
Training on Drug Crime Trends and Intelligence Collection Methods
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 1st that it conducted specialized training for 100 School Police Officers (SPOs) to prevent youth drug abuse.
To prevent youth drug abuse, 131 SPOs at the Seoul Police Agency are providing drug crime prevention education to 1,407 schools across Seoul. Additionally, from the 17th of last month until the end of this month, they are operating a period focused on intensive intelligence gathering related to youth drug crimes.
The specialized training was promoted to strengthen the drug prevention and intelligence gathering capabilities of SPOs who directly carry out drug crime prevention education for students and intelligence collection tasks. It was conducted with the consideration that drug prevention duties will expand as an important area of responsibility for SPOs in the future.
The instructor invited for the day, Kim Daegyu, head of the Drug Crime Investigation Division at the Gyeongnam Police Agency, is a veteran drug investigator who arrested 42 teenage drug offenders in 2021 and 100 drug offenders this year, including teenage couriers.
Through this specialized training, education was provided on recent trends in youth drug crimes, methods of intelligence gathering, know-how for drug crime prevention education, and precautions to be taken during prevention education.
The Seoul Police Agency is the first to operate an integrated system where prevention, investigation, and treatment are conducted in a coordinated manner. They have connected 15 youth drug offenders identified by the police to the Drug Eradication Movement Headquarters.
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Kim Kwangho, Commissioner of the Seoul Police Agency, stated, "We consider this the last golden time to prevent youth drug abuse and will do our utmost to prevent the spread of drugs among youth," adding, "We will strive to strengthen the police’s expertise related to drugs for effective prevention."
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