Jeollanam-do sex offender management police have the highest number of officers per capita in the country.
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- 7 dedicated police officers manage 4,369 people subject to registration of sexual crime information in the Jeonnam region, with an average of 624 people per person, 154 more than the national average of 470, ranking first in the country.
- The number of registered people has increased every year, but the number of dedicated personnel has not changed since 2024, raising concerns about management blind spots.
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Why It Matters
The sex crime personal information registration system is a system to prevent recidivism by continuously checking high-risk subjects. The number of registered people in the Jeonnam region continues to increase every year from 3,214 in 2021 to 4,341 in 2024 and to 4,369 in June of this year.
Number of registered sex offenders per management staff ‘highest in the nation’
(Jeonnam Gwangju = Yonhap News) Reporter Min Hyun-ki = The number of police officers in charge per person in the Jeonnam region who manage people subject to registration of sexual crime information was found to be the largest in the country.
According to National Police Agency data released on the 22nd by Rep. Park Jeong-hyeon of the Democratic Party of Korea (Daedeok-gu, Daejeon), a member of the National Assembly Public Administration and Security Committee, the number of people subject to personal information registration in Jeollanam-do as of June was 4,369, and the number of dedicated management personnel was 7.
Each police officer was responsible for an average of 624 people, which was 154 more than the national average of 470.
The number of registered people in Jeonnam has increased every year from 3,214 in 2021 to 3,552 in 2022, 3,908 in 2023, 4,147 in 2024, and 4,341 last year.
The number of registered people by region was 24,672 in southern Gyeonggi, 22,946 in Seoul, 8,443 in northern Gyeonggi, 8,148 in Incheon, and 7,431 in Busan.
Jeonnam ranked 10th among the 18 city/provincial police agencies nationwide in terms of the number of people subject to registration, but had the largest number of officers per capita due to the small number of dedicated police officers.
The number of dedicated police officers in the Jeonnam region remained unchanged at 7 from 2024 to June of this year.
As of last June, the number of registered people in Gwangju was 3,472, with 9 dedicated police officers managing an average of 386 people per person.
In Gwangju, the number of registered people increased by 21% from 2,869 in 2021, but the number of dedicated personnel remained at 9 from 2024.
The number of people subject to national personal information registration increased by 33.6% from 91,136 in 2021 to 121,786 in June last year, and the number of dedicated management personnel increased by only 8, from 251 in 2024 to 259 in June.
Representative Park said, "The sex offender personal information registration system is not only a list, but also a system to prevent recidivism by continuously checking high-risk subjects. We need to expand dedicated manpower to prevent blind spots in management from leading to further damage, and strengthen the actual inspection and information sharing system between related agencies."
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Additional police officers dedicated to sex crimes will be recruited in the Jeonnam region.
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Open Questions
- What is the current sex crime recidivism rate in the Jeonnam region?
- Is there a specific budget plan for increasing dedicated police officers?
- Compared to other cities and provinces, what is the inspection cycle in Jeonnam?
