"Afraid of More Work, So Falsely Closed Cases"... Absurd Motive for Crime

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The motive behind a police officer surnamed Boo in Jeju, who falsely closed missing person cases, has been revealed. During police questioning, Officer Boo stated that he falsely closed the cases due to the burden of heavy workloads and case transfers.


This is Kwon Min-ji from JIBS.

[Reporter]

Officer Boo, who is accused of falsely closing missing person cases, emerges from a holding cell a week after his arrest.

[(Do you have anything to say to the bereaved families? More false closures came out in the full inspection, why did you do it?) ......]

Officer Boo is accused of falsely notifying a reporter that he had spoken directly with a missing person surnamed Jang, regarding a missing person report filed last May.

He closed the case by entering a false reason of "traffic accident death" into the missing person profiling system.

In another missing person report involving a man in his 60s filed last July, he also notified that contact had been made, and similarly closed the case after falsely entering that the person's whereabouts had been found.

Both missing persons were later found dead.

During police questioning, Officer Boo admitted to all the charges.

Regarding the motive for his crime, he stated that because the missing persons were regular adults, he took it lightly, and falsely closed the cases due to the burden of transferring them.

Based on the analysis of five profilers, the police concluded that a loss of self-control occurred as accumulated work pressure and stress built upon his introverted and evasive personality.

[Jung Tae-woon / Head of Investigation Division, Jeju Provincial Police Agency: The primary background was a work-shirking motive amid fatigue from accumulated work burdens and heavy responsibilities, combined with the suspect's evasive and irresponsible attitude.]

However, as it was confirmed that internal reports regarding both cases had been made to superiors, the task of determining accountability beyond Officer Boo still remains.

About 20 days after launching the investigation into Officer Boo, the police transferred him into custody on charges including dereliction of duty.

(Video Reported by: Kang Myung-chul, Ko Seung-han / JIBS)

Kwon Min-ji, JIBS
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