Kim Jong-cheol, candidate for National Police Agency Commissioner, has assets of 1.7 billion won... Hearing preparation team launched (comprehensive)

Kim Jong-cheol, a candidate for the National Police Agency, was confirmed to have assets of 1.7 billion won as reported by Kim Jong-cheol while he was serving as the Chief of the Gyeongnam Police Agency.

According to the public official asset report details released last March, as of December 31 last year, the total amount reported by candidate Kim as assets for himself, his spouse, and three children was 1,718,843,000 won.

The biggest item was candidate Kim's 800 million won deposit for an apartment in Songpa-gu, Seoul.

The total reported amount of land owned by Candidate Kim and his spouse in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do and Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam was 398,436,000 won.

The family's savings were 689,616,000 won and securities were 54,073,000 won. Candidate Kim and his spouse’s financial debt was 231,842,000 won.

On the 9th, the National Police Agency formed a preparation group for the National Assembly personnel hearing consisting of 3 teams and 13 people.

The hearing preparation team consisted of a policy development team, a personal information response team, and a National Assembly response team.

The head of the department is Inspector General Lee Young-cheol, who also serves as the head of the National Police Agency's Autonomous Police Planning Team and the head of the Police Reform Team.

The National Police Agency explained that it considered the professionalism and work continuity necessary for police reform and the establishment of a revised criminal justice system.

The three team leaders at the general police level consisted of one person each from a police officer recruit, an officer candidate, and a police academy graduate.

The head of the policy development team is Park Jeong-hoon, head of the police reform planning team at the National Police Agency, the head of the personal injury response team is Park Seong-gap, head of the Crime Prevention and Response Division at Songpa Police Station, and the National Assembly response team leader is Choi In-gyu, an innovation planning and coordination officer at the National Police Agency.

The four-member National Assembly response team was formed from personnel from the Innovation Planning and Coordination Office, which is in charge of existing National Assembly work, rather than selecting separate team members.

The preparation team plans to prepare for the personnel hearing to verify candidate Kim's capabilities and qualifications, while also preparing security policy tasks to reform the police and restore public trust.

The preparation team emphasized, "We will implement the candidate's promise to the public, his wish for a safer society and his voice for police reform, into security policies, and prepare specific policy visions and tasks to restore public trust."