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SBS exclusively reported on the situation in which the police report warning of the danger of Halloween crowds in advance was deleted immediately after the Itaewon disaster. The instructions to respond to the assembly with full force are contained as it is.
Reporter Kim Bo-mi covered the story.
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This is the prosecutor's indictment containing the response of the police information line before and after the disaster.
Three days before the Itaewon disaster, a member of the Yongsan Police Station's Information Division prepares a preliminary report.
A large crowd is expected in the alleys of Itaewon and there are concerns about danger.
It also reports that it will manage crowds on site on the day and make career requests in case of danger.
However, the information manager who received the report said, "Who told you to write this report?" and "Halloween is just like Christmas, what does an intelligence officer have to do in such a place?"
Rather, it is stated that the manager ordered, "It's the weekend and we have to respond with all our might to the assembly," and "Only upload the materials and come to the assembly."
In the end, according to this order, not a single intelligence officer was deployed in Itaewon on the day of the disaster, and they were focused only on the assembly site near the Yongsan Presidential Office.
It also contains the fact that the Yongsan-seo Information Division reported three preliminary reports on Halloween safety at the direction of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Information Department from the end of September, a month before the disaster.
However, the prosecution pointed out that the head of the intelligence department of the Seoul Metropolitan Government did not take any action, and after the disaster, he was only concerned with avoiding responsibility.
The head of the information department of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, who was arrested, said, "If it escalates into a career placement problem, there will be a problem that someone in the police has to take responsibility for."
In addition, the prosecution found that the Yongsan Police Station Information Division had deleted the report from the PC of the employee who originally wrote it even when the police special edition was seized and searched for.
(Video coverage: Kim Seung-tae, Video editing: Kim Jin-won, Source: Democratic Party Congressman Kwon Chil-seung's office)
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