Jeju Police Officer Falsely Closing Cases Deleted or Omitted 63 Missing Person Reports

It has been investigated that Police Officer A, a suspect in the "Jeju missing person report false closure case," deleted more cases from the missing person profiling system after receiving missing person reports.

According to the Jeju Provincial Police Agency today (August 31), Police Officer A was found to have omitted or deleted 63 out of 298 cases that he self-closed while working in the missing persons team at the Jeju Seobu Police Station from March 10, 2025, to July 23.

In addition, the 63 cases included instances that were received and dismissed by other departments.

The cases deleted from the missing person profiling system management list include a woman in her 30s surnamed Chang, who was found dead after a missing person report was filed.

Police Officer A falsely closed Chang's missing person case, entered that she died in a traffic accident, and deleted it from the system.

The omitted entries correspond to cases where erroneous reports were made at the 112 reporting stage or the missing person was found immediately.

It is known that such cases do not necessarily need to be entered into the missing person profiling system.

However, it has not yet been confirmed whether the cases omitted or deleted from the profiling system by Police Officer A were falsely closed.

Excluding the system omissions and deletions, Police Officer A self-closed a total of 235 cases during his approximately 16 months of service in the missing persons team.

This figure is higher than those of Police Officer B with 137 cases and Police Officer C with 37 cases, who worked during a similar period.

Police explained that since two officers were deployed as a team during the day, tasks such as entering data into the missing person profiling system were usually handled by Police Officer A, the youngest member of the team.

When a missing person report is filed, the closure status according to the 112 incident record must be recorded, and entries must also be made separately in the missing person profiling system, except for exceptional circumstances such as erroneous reports.

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