Police Officer Investigated for Posting Mocking Remarks and Confidential Info on Personal Blog

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A current police officer is under investigation after posting various writings and photos on a personal blog. The posts ridiculed death investigation cases and even included confidential police data.

Reporter Bae Seong-jae has this exclusive report.

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This is the portal site blog of Police Inspector A, who is assigned to a police station in Seoul.

In a post titled "Day the Gates of Heaven Opened" written in July 2023, Inspector A wrote, "Perhaps there is a shortage of people in heaven, three consecutive byeon-net," and "The last one was a seok-byeon, so I put on two masks," attaching a selfie wearing layered masks with wide-open eyes.

"Byeon-net" is a police slang term referring to death investigation cases. It appears to record a shift where the officer responded to three consecutive death cases, including a scene where severe decomposition had taken place.

The officer also added contents that seemed to mock the death investigation scenes, such as saying, "It was a record-breaking smell that made me gag," and "I thought I wouldn't be able to swallow any food, but I inhaled gamjatang in no time."

In July of that year, a stabbing rampage occurred in Sillim-dong, Seoul, leaving one person dead and three injured. Three months later, Inspector A wrote a post titled "Training Review," which included confidential interview details of the Sillim-dong stabbing suspect. The post stated, "The suspects of the Seohyun and Gwanaksan stabbing rampages were identically pathetic with low self-esteem."

In addition, the officer disclosed police work-related details such as nighttime voluntary overtime allowances, describing them as a "high-yield short-term sweet part-time job."

Because the blog was open to the public, a complaint against Inspector A was filed with the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office last June on charges including divulging official secrets and defamation.

Following this, the blog was set to private, and SBS coverage confirmed that the Seoul Geumcheon Police Station took over the case last month and launched a formal investigation.

The police plan to summon Inspector A soon to investigate the circumstances surrounding the controversial posts on the public blog and whether information acquired during actual investigation and training processes was included.

The police station where Inspector A is stationed stated that it plans to proceed with disciplinary inspection procedures depending on the investigation results.

The reporting team made multiple attempts to contact the officer for a statement, but Inspector A did not respond.

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