"Year-End and New Year Safety Management Focus" ... Changwon Special City Intensifies Safety Management in Crowded Areas

Police, Fire Department, and Related Agencies Hold Meeting

Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam is holding a crowd management strategy meeting to take preemptive measures against safety accidents caused by crowded events during Christmas and the year-end and New Year holidays, and is embarking on thorough safety management.

On the morning of the 22nd, the city held a meeting with related organizations such as the police and fire departments, chaired by First Vice Mayor Jang Geum-yong, to prepare safety management measures to prevent accidents in densely crowded places during the year-end and New Year holidays. They discussed measures to safely manage the crowd during the Christmas holiday rush, the year-end bell-ringing events, and the sunrise-watching events.

Year-end and New Year crowd-dense area safety management in full force.

At the meeting, safety management plans were reviewed for four events expected to have dense crowds: the 2024 bell-ringing event at Buljong Street in Masanhappo-gu, the 3·15 Haeyang Nuri Park sunrise event, and the 2024 New Year’s citizen wish prayer ceremony in Jinhae-gu. Instructions were given to focus on safety management, including traffic control and additional deployment of safety personnel.

In addition, for 11 small-scale year-end and New Year events, roles and duties of each agency were clearly defined to prevent crowd-related accidents, and an organic cooperation system among related organizations was strengthened for rapid response and action in emergencies, as well as situation sharing.

Considering the large crowds expected at Christmas, sunset, and sunrise events, on-site patrols will be intensified around festival venues and nearby busy districts, and a rapid initial response system will be established, including immediate deployment of safety and control personnel upon detection of any warning signs.

Vice Mayor Jang said, “We will do our best to ensure safety management so that citizens can safely enjoy various events and welcome a hopeful new year by thoroughly implementing preemptive safety measures in cooperation with related organizations such as the police and fire departments, maintaining a situation management posture, and preventing any safety accidents.”

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