Commissioner General of Police cracks down on successive police sex crimes... orders urgent on-site inspections

Amid a series of sexual misconduct incidents involving active police officers, the National Police Agency has decided to conduct an urgent on-site inspection.

On the 26th, Yoon Hee-geun, Commissioner of the National Police Agency, held a nationwide police leadership video conference and ordered the immediate implementation of urgent on-site inspections and organizational culture diagnostics regarding violations of police officers' duties, including sexual misconduct.

He also instructed that offenders be promptly removed from their duties and subjected to thorough investigations.

Following a series of sexual misconduct cases, including a sergeant from the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency being sent to the prosecution in custody on charges of illegally filming 27 women in their 20s and 30s whom he met through a matchmaking application (violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes by Using Cameras), the agency appears to be reinforcing internal discipline.

Commissioner Yoon also strengthened command and management responsibilities by instructing commanders and middle managers to continuously monitor their subordinates' basic duties and ordered that gender sensitivity be assessed during the recruitment process to filter out unsuitable candidates.

Regarding the strengthening of responses to illegal assemblies, Commissioner Yoon emphasized actively considering dispersal measures for assemblies that violate noise standards and cause traffic congestion, and urged swift and decisive investigations afterward.

He also instructed that morale-boosting measures, such as expanding rewards, be prepared for riot police officers whose workload has increased due to the intensified management of assemblies.

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