Police Reported "Immediate Registration" to Cheong Wa Dae Before Stalking Murder… Attempt to Cover Up Mistakes?

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We have obtained a document showing that the National Police Agency reported to Cheong Wa Dae one month before the Jang Yoon-gi case that it would immediately register stalking cases upon receiving reports. In the initial investigation of the Jang Yoon-gi case, actions were not taken according to this document, and prosecutors are now investigating whether the police deliberately tried to downplay the case to hide these mistakes.

Reporter Kim Deok-hyeon has the details.



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On March 14, Kim Hoon, the perpetrator of the Namyangju stalking murder, murdered a woman in her 20s whom he had previously dated.

[President Lee Jae-myung: Wasn't it a complacent response that failed to prevent this horrific crime? Please hasten foolproof institutional supplements.]

Two weeks later, on March 27, a related countermeasures meeting was held at Cheong Wa Dae, and SBS obtained the document reported by the National Police Agency to Cheong Wa Dae at the time through a lawmaker's office.

The police pointed out as problems cases where victims of relationship-based crimes, including stalking, reported incidents, but the police closed them internally without registering the cases.

To improve this, the police reported that they would immediately register cases upon receiving related reports regardless of police station jurisdiction, and also proposed conducting preliminary investigations to secure custody for high-risk groups.

However, this content reported by the National Police Agency to Cheong Wa Dae was not implemented during the process of responding to Jang Yoon-gi's stalking crime that occurred about a month later.

On May 3, a Vietnamese woman, A, reported to the police when Jang Yoon-gi, who had sexually assaulted her, reappeared near her home.

Jang Yoon-gi's crime appears to fall under the "high-risk group" mentioned in the Cheong Wa Dae report document, but the dispatched police officers did not officially register the case and closed the scene simply by "sending a warning text message."

Jang Yoon-gi, having only received a warning text, threw away his mobile phone and freely wandered around the neighborhood, murdering the late Lee Chae-won about 28 hours after the stalking report.

If the police had registered the stalking case immediately upon report as mentioned in the Cheong Wa Dae report document and classified him as a high-risk group to secure custody, Jang Yoon-gi's murder could have been prevented.

Recently securing the document, prosecutors suspect that the National Office of Investigation (NOI) of the police may have ordered the minimization of the Jang Yoon-gi case to hide the fact that the investigation was not conducted according to the report to Cheong Wa Dae.

Park Sung-joo, the then head of the NOI, explained to SBS that the order for "separate assignment" was "intended for the competent department to thoroughly investigate whether there were any additional stalking victims."

(Photo courtesy of Office of Representative Park Su-min) (Video by Yoon Hyeong | Video Editing by Shin Se-eun | Design by Seo Hyun-jung, Lee Ga-jin)
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