Police apparently need more guys who can handle the barbarians:
Crimes by foreign nationals are rising here but police assigned to oversee the foreign community are suffering an extreme shortage of officers.
Rep. Kim Tae-won of the ruling National Grand Party said that the number of police officers at the foreign affairs department stood at 1,096 nationwide in October. About 1.2 million foreigners are living here.
“Simply put, the number of residents per foreign affairs police officer is 1,073, compared with 504 Koreans per officer nationwide,” he said. “We lack police officers who can handle crimes committed by foreign nationals.”
This is interesting, too:
“We have seen a massive influx of foreigners in recent years. We need more officers to over see them,” said an official from the Foreign Department at the National Police Agency, who declined to be named.
They plan to open security centers in regions where foreigners established their own districts such as the ethnic Korean-Chinese and Chinese village in Guro, Seoul and a Bangladeshi town in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, he said.
The thinking behind this is curious — that the police need special foreigner-handlers to deal with barbarian crime. Why won’t the normal cops do?
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One thing I didn’t notice is if those special foreign affairs police officers handle cases where the victim is a foreigner or only if the suspect is a foreigner.
Is this a failed attempt at appearing to be culturally sensative?
Why does an official from the Foreign Department at the National Police Agency, decline to be named when describing policy ?
I’ve had one experience with a case involving the putative foreign specialists at the NPA. I left puzzled about just what differentiated them from the regular cops since they lacked both the language skills and even the most rudimentary kind of commercial knowledge to sort out what was going on. After a few meetings and the prospect of an interminable investigation (or a fat white envelope), I finally made them go away by taking the initiative myself to get the Prosecutors’ Office involved. Bingo; all solved.
I assume the motive was to create a specialist division who can speak foreign languages. Wouldn’t adding interpreter services for the cops be easier?
I know two senior guys at the NPA who are part of that group. The both speak english well, one flawlessly.
“Simply put, the number of residents per foreign affairs police officer is 1,073, compared with 504 Koreans per officer nationwide,” he said. “We lack police officers who can handle crimes committed by foreign nationals.”
Aren’t foreign residents less likely to commit crimes?
I can’t help but wonder if the majority of this massive influx of foreigners into South Korea are actually North Korean refugees.
“Aren’t foreign residents less likely to commit crimes?”
It depends. Unfortunately, the populace of certain countries are more prone to criminal activities, and most of the foreigners in Korea are from such countries, thanks to the Roh Dummy Administration of past 5 years.
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Looking at the statistics, foreign residents are still less likely to commit crimes. But, according to the media, there seems to be an increase in the amount of international criminal gang activity. Maybe that’s why they want more cops. If that’s the case, then maybe it’s a good idea to try to control the problem before it gets too big.
This isn’t about foreigners being “barbarian”. The upper class don’t want a credible legal system where crimes are actually punished.
When you introduce foreigners you introduce a new element which normally would force a overhaul of the shitty legal system in Korea. Instead of doing so, they make a “special” legal system for barbarians, er I mean foreigners.
“Why won’t the normal cops do?”
…because they’re too busy taking kickbacks from pimps….
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