At around 5:50 a.m. on September 24, the first day of the Chuseok holiday, a phone call came in to the 112 emergency operations room of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency.
Only a sharp scream from a woman was briefly heard over the receiver, and the call was immediately disconnected.
Suspecting the possibility of a violent crime, the operations dispatcher issued Code Zero, the highest level of emergency response.
The police then tracked the caller's location and called the disconnected number back.
A man answered the phone.
He claimed that it was merely a verbal argument.
However, finding this suspicious, the police urgently dispatched patrol cars from the local police station to a residence in Gunpo, the location tracked through the phone.
According to police investigations, the suspect had brought a woman he met at a bar to his home and attempted to commit a sexual crime against her.
The dispatched police officers rescued the woman and booked the man as a suspect for sexual assault.
The police stated, "We prevented a violent crime in advance through the quick judgment of the 112 dispatcher and the active measures of the responding police officers."
In addition, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency implemented a comprehensive Chuseok holiday security plan from September 17 to 27, deploying a total of about 42,600 personnel to apprehend 589 robbery and theft suspects and 1,430 violence suspects.
Reported by Jung Da-eun | Video by Kim Na-on | Graphics by Lee Jeong-ju | Produced by SBS Digital News
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