▲ Hanging of the signboard for the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office
It has been learned that the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office is undergoing procedures to reassign some of its investigators, roughly a month after its official opening.
This measure is interpreted as an effort to improve personnel management systems following criticisms that some personnel were assigned to departments unrelated to their previous experience due to the rushed schedule during the agency's launch.
The Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office recently requested the headquarters to issue personnel orders to change the working departments of specific investigators.
The Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office has not disclosed the specific number of individuals subject to the change, citing that it is an internal personnel matter.
This step follows the collection of preferred departments from investigators Grade 5 and below on November 2, the day the office was launched, which revealed numerous requests for departmental changes.
Just before the launch of the Serious Crime Investigation Office, personnel appointments were made under a tight schedule, leading to some investigators belonging to the headquarters and regional offices being placed in departments unrelated to their experience and specializations, prompting criticism both inside and outside the organization.
However, as detailed regulations regarding the exercise of personnel authority by regional investigation offices have not yet been established, the headquarters has decided to directly handle this personnel appointment.
According to the current Act on the Organization and Operation of the Serious Crime Investigation Office, a regional investigation office head must be delegated such authority by the head of the main office in order to exercise internal personnel rights.
However, because detailed regulations on the procedures and methods for delegating personnel rights have not yet been established, the headquarters plans to directly issue appointments upon receiving requests for personnel orders from the Suwon office.
This measure is limited to internal departmental reassignments within the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office and does not include transfers to other regional investigation offices.
An official from the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office explained, "Since it is expected to take some time to establish regulations related to the delegation of personnel authority, we pursued the departmental reassignment by first requesting personnel orders from the headquarters."
The fixed quota for the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office is 343 personnel, and as of November 1, its staffing fill rate stood at 63%, which is similar to the national average of 66% for serious crime investigation offices.
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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