Although the police cited the limitations of the smart watch's location detection system as the cause of the police's failure to prevent the Jung-gu stalking murder, it was found that the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission had already pointed out the error problem to users three years ago.
It has become difficult for the police to avoid criticism that they have not sufficiently improved the equipment with errors over a period of more than three years.
In addition, the ACRC cadastral at the time to fully explain the possibility of errors to the user is also being implemented in a jiffy at the site.
Combining media coverage today (23rd), the ACRC expressed its opinion to the National Police Agency in January 2018, saying, "The problem that the smart watch cannot display the correct location indoors should be sufficiently explained to the wearer in advance."
In August 2017, the daughter of a woman in her 50s living in Gangseo-gu, Busan, who was killed while under police protection due to the threat of a man she broke up with, complained to the ACRC against the Busan Gangseo Police Station, saying, "My mother was killed because she believed in a smart watch provided by the police." I filed a complaint.
The victim, who was running a tavern, reported by pressing the smart watch button when the ex-boyfriend who threatened him came to the pub.
However, the police evaded the patrol car and dispatched the woman to the house, not the pub. Meanwhile, the victim suffered a catastrophe on the street in front of the pub.
The smart watch provided by the police at that time was a GPS method that measures the location value of the terminal through satellite signals, but there was a problem that the location value was not measured indoors.
The ACRC pointed out that the police did not explain this to the victim even though they knew from the time the police introduced the smart watch that the location of the person being protected may not be displayed accurately if they are indoors.
At the same time, it was decided that an explanation that 'a location error may occur due to a communication error' is insufficient, and that the problem should be sufficiently explained to the person being protected in advance.
It is reported that the police only explained how to operate the smart watch when it was paid to the victim of the Jung-gu officetel murder case on the 7th of this month.
An official from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said at a press conference yesterday, "Did you tell the victim that there may be an error in the location value?" to a reporter's question, "We mainly talk about which button to press in case of an emergency and how to operate it."
Although the smart watch security pledge and the 112 system registration agreement that the police give to persons subject to personal protection have been informed that there may be a margin of error in the location value, it has not been confirmed whether the police orally emphasized the content so that the victim could understand it sufficiently. .
The victim appears to have trusted the smartwatch and was relieved.
According to a SBS report yesterday, the victim complained of anxiety to acquaintances because of the stalking of Mr. Kim (35, arrested), but it is known that the smart watch provided by the police was called a 'universal watch'.
The victim made two emergency calls to the police with a smart watch on the 19th, but was stabbed to death by the police rushing to the wrong place for the first time.
Yoon-seong Oh, a professor of police administration at Soonchunhyang University, said, "For those who are protected, wearing a smart watch gives them a lot of psychological stability."