Police Confirm 117 Cases Involving Family Members in Nationwide Audit Prompted by 'Jang Yoon-gi Case'

Following the "Jang Yoon-gi case," police conducted a comprehensive nationwide audit to eradicate corruption related to cases involving police family members, identifying 117 such cases and transferring 44 of them to other police stations or provincial police agencies.

The Korean National Police Agency announced today (July 28) that it conducted the audit on cases involving police family members from the 10th to the 22nd as part of measures to eliminate internal corruption in police investigations.

Inspector A, the father of Jang Yoon-gi—the perpetrator of the murder of a female high school student in Gwangju—was found to have worked at the Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station for over 10 years.

Inspector A is known to have destroyed evidence, such as disposing of a real doll at Jang Yoon-gi's home while Jang was under police investigation for murder.

The subjects of this comprehensive audit were cases where individuals involved in the case were spouses or lineal ascendants or descendants of police officers currently working at the police station handling the investigation, or officers who had worked at that station within the past three years.

The police explained that 44 of the cases involving family members of police officers were transferred to provincial police agencies or other police stations to enhance the fairness of the investigations.

They plan to manage the cases that were not transferred by re-inspecting the appropriateness of the investigations on a monthly basis.

In addition, matters requiring investigation or inspection, such as the case at the Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency, are to be handled by the provincial police agency as a rule.

The National Police Agency stated that based on the results of this audit, it plans to establish an operational plan for the constant management of cases involving police family members and overhaul the internal conflict-of-interest prevention system within the police force.
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