[Exclusive] Police suspected of unfairly issuing passes for U.S. troops outside their jurisdiction… why?

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Three incumbent police officers, including the chief of the police station, were suspected of having been issued a pass for the US military base without going through formal procedures, so the police began to investigate the truth.

The U.S. military recovered the pass and started an inspection.

Reporter Shin Yong-shik's exclusive coverage will be read first, and then the story will continue.

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U.S. Forces Korea base 'Camp Humphreys' located in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do.

Earlier this year, three police officers, including Chief A of Police Station A in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, were issued passes for this unit.

It is known that one of them, who belonged to the same police station, was issued a pass through military officer B of the Camp Humphreys unit, whom he knew.

If you receive a pass for normal business purposes, you must go through official procedures, such as submitting relevant documents to the US military police.

However, after receiving a complaint that they possessed the pass without this procedure, the US military went directly to the police station and retrieved three passes.

The police officers explained that they received the pass for business cooperation,

[Chief A: In terms of business cooperation, US military crimes, female agency crimes, drug crimes…

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Because of that.]

When asked what the actual cooperation with the US military base in Pyeongtaek was, he did not give a clear answer.

[Police Chief A: (Do you have any documents, investigations, records? Is there any business cooperation?) When you eat here, they all have an interpreter and share with them.] The

US military reported that there was a problem with the pass issuance process. It is said that an inspection investigation into military officer B has begun.

On the 15th, two police officers who received a pass from Mr. B directly attended the Camp Humphreys unit at the request of the US military.

The Chungnam National Police Agency also started to understand the truth, such as calling two US military officers who took the pass issued to the police today (19th) and took the recovery measures, and asked the reason for the recall.

(Video editing: Park Chun-bae, VJ: Lee Jun-young)

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Here is reporter Shin Yong-sik who covered this content.

[Reporter Shin Yong-sik: In 2012, there was an incident in which a military officer belonging to the Daegu U.S. military base took hundreds of millions of won in exchange for issuing passes to outsiders.

In the same year, a lieutenant colonel in the reserve was also caught illegally issuing passes to the US military base.

In past incidents, the reason was that if you had a pass, you could use the restaurants and golf courses inside the US military base.

It takes about 30 minutes from the Cheonan police station to the US base.

This is a point that needs to be clarified exactly what the purpose of the police officers being issued a pass for the US military base in Pyeongtaek, which is not under their jurisdiction, and possessing it.

[Reporter Shin Yong-shik: The US military is said to be investigating Mr. B, who issued passes to the police officers.

If the inspection process concludes that there is a problem with the issuance process, disciplinary action is expected.

The US military is expected to notify the Chungnam Police Agency of the results of the inspection.

Police said they were aware of the incident last Friday, and have repeatedly reiterated their position that finding the facts comes first.

First, I want to see the results of the US inspection investigation.

If the police inspection starts, it seems that the purpose of this pass will be taken into consideration to decide whether to take disciplinary action.

(Video editing: Park Chun-bae)