Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office Seeks Personnel Resuffle One Month After Launch

It has been learned that the Suwon Serious Crime Investigation Office is undergoing procedures to reassign certain investigators to different departments about a month after its opening.

This move is interpreted as an effort to improve the personnel management system following criticisms that some personnel were assigned to departments unrelated to their existing career backgrounds during the rushed launch process.

The Suwon office recently requested the headquarters to issue personnel orders to change the working departments of specific investigators.

The Suwon office has not disclosed the specific number of personnel subject to the change, citing that it is an internal personnel matter.

This measure follows the internal collection of preferred departments from investigators at Grade 5 and below on November 2, the day the office was launched, which revealed numerous cases where staff desired department changes.

Just before the launch of the Serious Crime Investigation Office, personnel appointments were made in a rushed manner, leading to criticisms both inside and outside the organization that some investigators belonging to the headquarters and regional offices were placed in departments unrelated to their experience and specialties.

However, as detailed regulations regarding the exercise of personnel authority by regional investigation offices have not yet been established, the headquarters has decided to directly handle this personnel appointment.

According to the current Act on the Organization and Operation of the Serious Crime Investigation Office, for the head of a regional investigation office to exercise internal personnel authority, that authority must be delegated by the head of the main office.

However, because detailed regulations on the procedures and methods for delegating personnel authority have not been established, the headquarters plans to directly issue appointments upon receiving personnel order requests from the Suwon office.

This measure is limited to internal department reassignments within the Suwon office and does not include transfers to other regional investigation offices.

An official from the Suwon office explained, "Since it is expected to take time to establish regulations related to the delegation of personnel authority, we pursued the department reassignment by first requesting personnel orders from the headquarters."

The Suwon office has a fixed quota of 343 personnel, and as of November 1, its staffing fill rate stood at 63%, similar to the national average of 66% for regional investigation offices.

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