Officially announcing the police magistrate and overturning… 'Practitioner's Mistake'

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The police announced a high-ranking person last night (21st).

However, after about two hours, they said that the previous announcement was wrong and presented a new personnel plan with several positions changed.

As the controversy grew as the police explained it back and forth, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the President's Office even went out.

Let's look at the report of reporter Hyung-an Son first, and then continue the story.

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Last night at around 7:10 pm, the National Police Agency released the personnel plan for 28 public security officers who are equivalent to the chiefs of the provincial and provincial police departments. 

The high-ranking police personnel plan was announced on the same day that the recommendation of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security Advisory Committee containing measures to control the police was issued.

However, about two hours later, the police re-announced the amendment, in which the positions of seven people were changed.

Police explanations have come and gone.

At first, it was said that it was a simple mistake by the personnel officer of the National Police Agency to announce the personnel plan before it was finalized, but the Ministry of Public Administration and Security has since handed over the changed personnel plan.

Suspicions arose that the Minister of Public Administration and Security or the presidential office had started to tame the police through personnel rights.

Then, Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee Sang-min denied the allegations, saying that the president's approval was only done once at 10 pm, saying that 'the National Police Agency strangely announced the personnel plan before the president's approval was issued'.

[Lee Sang-min / Minister of Public Administration and Security: There seems to have been a mistake in the process of making the draft within the National Police Agency.

(Presidential approval) There has been no change or any change since then.] 

The National Police Agency also began to evolve by explaining the specific circumstances. 

It is said that the security policy officer dispatched from the National Police Agency to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security sent one of several personnel proposals that were being discussed, not the final one, by mistake. 

An official from the National Police Agency said that the incident occurred due to a lack of communication between the Presidential Office, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, and the National Police Agency. 

An official from the presidential office also said that the presidential office did not modify or change the police personnel plan, and that it was approved by the Minister of the Interior and Safety. 

(Video coverage: Park Young-il, Video editing: Jeong Seong-hoon)

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Here is reporter Son Hyung-an, who just delivered the report.

[Reporter Hyung-an Son: First of all, it seems that this personnel process was unusually and a little urgent.

An official from the National Police Agency also said that he received a notice from the Ministry of Public Administration and Security at around 4 pm yesterday.

The date of appointment was today.

Ordinary police personnel should give advance notice internally first and then allow enough time.

He probably moves between regions and gives him a little bit of time until he takes over, but this greeting was very unusual.

The explanation of a government official we covered separately is as follows.

The actual agreement between the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the National Police Agency was that it was the first personnel plan announced by the police.

The official explained that this personnel plan was emailed to the presidential office, but there was no response for more than an hour, so the National Police Agency considered it confirmed and announced it.

The timing is a bit odd.

Regarding the advisory committee's recommendation, it seems to be an accident that happened when the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the police rushed to greet each other at a time when they were not comfortable with each other.]

[Reporter Hyung-an Son: That was the custom.

The National Police Agency's position is that it has been the custom to announce before the president's approval.

It is said that the president's approval was received after first announcing the internal bill, which had already been comprehensively consulted. Wasn't it controversial this time?

With this incident as an opportunity, the National Police Agency said that it will make an announcement of its internal affairs after receiving the president's approval.]

[Reporter Hyeong-an Son: Representative of the new Gangwon Commissioner, Kim Do-hyeong, who was recently promoted from a police officer to a public security officer, is one of the representative cases.

It is said that the first person in his career after being promoted to public security chief has been in the role of an advisor rather than going to the regional head.

However, the new Commissioner Kim, whose hometown is Samcheok, Gangwon-do, is a high school junior of Kwon Seong-dong, the People's Power floor leader, who was called Yun Hek-gwan, and had also been dispatched to the transition committee this time.

Because of this background and ties, it is unusual for me to go directly to the head of my hometown, and there are rumors like this.]

(Video editing: Park Ki-duk)