The Legal and Prosecution Reform Commission under the Ministry of Justice recommended that the prosecution's information gathering function be effectively abolished.

This is because the information collected may be politically misused regardless of the alleged crime investigation.

The committee issued its sixth recommendation today (28) to immediately amend the regulations on the office of the prosecutor's office in order to abolish the information collection function of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

The Committee recommends abolishing the information gathering departments of the Supreme Prosecutors 'Office, including the Investigative Information Policy Officer and the Investigative Information Officer, and the Investigative Information Officer, and the Office of Investigation and Information Support under the Anti-Corruption Investigation Department of the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office. I did.

The Committee said, "In order to prevent human rights violations, information, investigation, and prosecution functions should be as decentralized as possible." In order to realize the prosecution reform task of reducing direct investigation, 'target and selective information collection for specific purposes' "We must immediately abolish the information gathering department of the prosecution, which supports and directs direct and indirect investigations."

The crime information department, whose main purpose is to collect information on crimes, has been greatly reduced since the NIS, and its name has changed from the crime information planning office to the investigation information policy office.

However, the committee pointed out that after being reorganized into the Office of Investigative Information Policy, it was reported to have shrunk to about 15, but now it has 34 members.

Information reporting for so-called 'trending' purposes was also prohibited.

Collecting and reporting political, financial and political party and social group trends can lead to 'investigation of the name,' and the bayonet can be a means of maintaining the authority of direct investigation.

Manpower remaining in the abolition of the information collection function was put into the criminal and trial departments.

The committee said, "If the scale of human resources or the contents of the information organization is arbitrarily expanded, there are no democratic control devices because there is no way for other organizations or outsiders to recognize it." By abolishing it completely, we can focus on the prosecution's original mission. ”

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