Jeju District Prosecutors' Office conducts search and seizure for second day to investigate police disappearance false closure case
Quick Look
- The Jeju District Prosecutor's Office is conducting search and seizure operations for the second day at the Jeju Police Agency and Jeju West Department and is expanding its investigation into the case of false closure of missing person reports.
- The prosecution secured the content of police employees' online messenger conversations, and detected circumstances where false reasons were entered and records were deleted by accessing the disappearance profiling system administrator mode, suggesting the possibility of an investigation by higher-ups.
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Why It Matters
The Jeju District Prosecutor's Office is investigating the case of falsely closing the disappearance report of Captain A of the Jeju Police Agency, and Captain A is suspected of falsely closing the disappearance report of a woman in her 30s, Mr. Jang, and a man in his 60s, Mr. Park.
(Jeju = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Ji-hye = The Jeju District Prosecutors' Office, which is investigating the case of the Jeju police officer's disappearance and false termination, began a search and seizure for the second day.
According to the Jeju District Prosecutor's Office on the 9th, the prosecution has been securing investigation-related materials through search and seizure of the Jeju Police Agency and Jeju West Department since this morning.
The prosecution explained that they were unable to secure all the data from the previous day's search and seizure, so they were conducting an additional search and seizure on this day.
The prosecution had previously conducted searches and seizures at the Jeju Police Agency's criminal department, the western station's chief's office, criminal investigation department, missing person team, on-duty office, and the police headquarters headquarters the previous day.
The prosecution announced that it conducted a search and seizure to directly check the police's disappearance system process.
It is known that the prosecution also confiscated the online messenger conversations of police officers through search and seizure. In addition, forensic investigators specializing in digital technology restoration were assigned to the Jeju Western Police Station.
As the prosecution conducts a surprise search and seizure of the Jeju Police Agency, attention is being paid to whether the tip of the prosecution's investigation will turn to the higher-ups of the police.
As police officer A, a suspect in the case of false closure of a missing persons report, entered administrator mode into the missing persons profiling system and deleted the management list record by entering false reasons such as 'traffic accident death', it is expected that an investigation up to the upper levels, including whether the person was managed by a superior, will become inevitable.
Captain A is accused of falsely closing the disappearance report of a woman in her 30s, Mr. Jang, on May 15th, and also falsely closing the disappearance report of a man in his 60s, Mr. Park, on July 2nd.
The Jeju Police Agency is investigating another 25 inappropriate cases, including false closure or deletion from the missing person profiling management list, as a result of a thorough investigation of 298 cases that Captain A closed while working in the missing person team from March of last year to July of last year.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The Jeju District Prosecutor's Office will expand its investigation into higher-ups in the police based on data obtained through search and seizure.
Likely · Within weeks
A thorough investigation into the Jeju National Police Agency's missing person profiling system will reveal additional inappropriate cases.
Possible · Within weeks
Open Questions
- Whether and to what extent superiors intervene
- Specific details of additionally discovered false termination cases
- The specific evidentiary value of the contents of the messenger secured through search and seizure
