A candidate who was disqualified from the physical examination of the police recruitment examination due to having a tattoo filed for an administrative judgment.
Mr. A was disqualified for having a tattoo in the physical examination of the 2nd police officer (police officer) recruitment test last year.
According to the physical examination standard table for the test, in the case of 'tattoos', the standard is provided that "there should be no tattoos that are judged to damage the reputation of a police officer depending on the content and exposure." are doing
The tattoo, which was the cause of the rejection, was a 4.5cm×20cm Chinese character lettering (letter tattoo) engraved with the lion's idiom 'Sapil Guijeong', meaning 'everything must return to the right place'.
Person A, who passed the written test earlier, failed the physical examination, saying, "The tattoo has faded due to the tattoo removal procedure, and it can be completely removed by June of this year, but I limited my qualifications to become a police officer in advance." (hereinafter referred to as the Central Administrative Tribunal) has filed an administrative appeal.
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Therefore, the Central Administrative Tribunal decided that the tattoo was in an unexposed part of the body and was almost completely erased, so it was difficult to see it as disgusting by the standards of the general public.
In addition, I saw that the meaning of the tattoo 'private spirit' was not a content that could damage the image of a police officer as it violates professional ethics as a public official, and the disqualification due to the tattoo of Mr. .
"Recently, the number of 'lettering tattoos' engraved with one's beliefs, etc. is increasing, and the perception of tattoos is changing," said Min Seong-shim, director of the Administrative Tribunal.
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