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Police chief-level executives who oppose the creation of a new organization to control the police within the Ministry of Public Administration and Security gathered last weekend and held a meeting.

Regarding that, Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min strongly criticized that criminal punishment was possible, saying that the situation was similar to a coup d'etat that violated the instructions of the superior.

He also said that certain forces within the police are leading such gatherings.



Today (25th), the first news will be delivered by reporter Kim Sang-min.



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Minister Lee Sang-min, who volunteered for an emergency press briefing, poured out intense remarks from the beginning.



The national police chiefs' meeting held the day before stipulated that it was a serious situation, saying that local police officers who could mobilize force and physical force at any time violated the upper-level instructions.



[Lee Sang-min/Minister of Public Administration and Security: Disobeying a legitimate duty order despite the police leadership clearly instructing the dissolution before and during the meeting...

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I have compared this meeting to a military rebellion that occurred in the past by the Hanahoe, a secret military organization.



[Lee Sang-min / Minister of Public Administration and Security: Did you not learn from history?

It is from this beginning that the Hanahoe launched the 12/12 coup.]



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Referring to Article 66 of the National Public Officials Act, which forbids collective actions outside of official duties, he threatened that criminal punishment was possible.



[Lee Sang-min/Minister of Public Administration and Security: The National Public Officials Act (incarceration) is for less than one year, but the Police Civil Service Act requires that the punishment be aggravated to less than two years.]



Recently, gatherings by police ranks are led by certain forces and I even said there was.



Minister Lee also actively refuted the criticism within the police that the establishment of the police station is a return to the past dictatorship.



He stressed that democratic control by the people is the way in which the minister under the administration can control the police through the newly established police department.



After a four-day notice of legislation and a meeting with the vice ministers, the new enforcement ordinance for the new police station will be promulgated on the 2nd of the following month if it is passed by the cabinet meeting tomorrow.



(Video coverage: Park Young-il, video editing: Park Chun-bae)