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First Police Reform Task Force Meeting Held as Kim Min-seok Calls for Controls Against Six Abuses

From Chosun Ilbo · () Korean

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  • Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok attended the first meeting of the party’s police reform task force at South Korea’s National Assembly.
  • He identified six abuses, including protecting colleagues, burying cases, unauthorized case closures, evidence concealment or manipulation, leaks of investigative information and privacy violations.
  • Kim called for police control mechanisms to eliminate those practices.

At the first meeting of the Democratic Party’s police reform task force, leader Kim Min-seok called for oversight mechanisms to prevent what he described as six major abuses.

Kim listed protecting colleagues, burying cases, unauthorized case closures, concealing or manipulating evidence, leaking investigative information and violating personal data as the “six abuses” that reform should address.

He urged the task force to design controls capable of eliminating those practices. The meeting took place at the National Assembly on September 1.

six abuses

— Kim Min-seokThe Democratic Party leader’s term for the police practices he said reform should eliminate.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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