SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Facts and circumstances revealed one after another after last Saturday’s tragic crowd crush in Seoul seem to indicate that police’s crisis management and command systems were in a mess at the time of the unfolding disaster. Police’s emergency response system, including the handling of urgent calls for help and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Wednesday it will overhaul the current operating system of the police’s emergency hotline, responding to mounting criticism about their failure to properly respond to numerous calls warning of overcrowding in Seoul’s Itaewon district on the night of the tragic crowd crush. Park Jong-hyun, a ranking official [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Police did not foresee that massive casualties would occur from this year’s Halloween festivities in the central Seoul district of Itaewon, a top police official said Monday, responding to growing criticism about their failure to prevent the deadly crowd crush. Hong Ki-hyun, chief of the National Police Agency’s Public [...]
CHANGWON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A man in his 50s with an intellectual disability was found in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, by a police sniffer dog one day after being reported missing. After receiving a missing report on Monday, the police analyzed CCTV footage of the area and launched a full-scale search effort. Two [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Interrogating suspects late at night in cases that are not urgent constitutes a violation of the rights to sleep and rest, the state human rights watchdog said Wednesday, advising a police station to redress its practice of late night questioning. The recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of subway police officers is on a declining trend despite a steady increase in subway crimes, data showed Tuesday. There were 2,946 crimes that occurred at subway stations across the country in 2021, up 3.8 percent from the figure recorded in 2016, according to the National Police [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency said Wednesday it will introduce intelligent CCTV cameras to prevent unlawful intrusion by outsiders in October. The intelligent CCTV cameras will send notices of outsiders’ unlawful intrusion to the smartphones of the victims or emergency dispatch centers in real time. The cameras will recognize outsiders [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of reports of dating violence last year tripled from the previous year, while the arrest rate more than halved, a lawmaker said Thursday. The data, submitted by the National Police Agency to Rep. Jeon Bong-min of the ruling People Power Party, revealed that the number of reports [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Thursday that it signed an agreement with major lender Woori Bank for a new missing children initiative. Under terms of the agreement, the two parties will cooperate to promote the advance fingerprint registration system that is effective in the early detection and prevention [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Tuesday it will launch a ‘knock knock’ campaign to promote the silent emergency call system, which was designed to ensure fast initial responses and the protection of victims who are in a situation where they cannot speak about their circumstances. In January, the National Police Agency introduced [...]