Support for Establishing Korea's 112 System in Angola
Training on CCTV Installation and Operation Know-How
The National Police Agency conducted an online "112 Emergency Reporting System Integrated Training" for Honduran police officers and others over four days starting from the 17th of this month. [Photo by National Police Agency]
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-ju] The National Police Agency announced that from the 17th of this month, it conducted a four-day non-face-to-face online "112 Emergency Reporting System Integrated Training" for the Honduran National Police and the National Crisis Response Agency.
This training was a comprehensive emergency reporting response education linking closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring and emergency reporting response systems, with a total of 20 local police trainees and project managers participating.
Daniel Manzano, an agent of the Honduran National Crisis Response Agency who participated in the training, said, "In this training, I was able to experience the advanced emergency reporting response techniques and cases of the Korean police," and added, "I hope to participate in various Korean police security capability enhancement programs."
Since 2014, the National Police Agency has been conducting a security capability enhancement project in Honduras as a KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) public cooperation project. They supported the installation of 250 CCTVs and the construction of an integrated CCTV control center, and provided crime prevention and investigation capability enhancement training to 231 local police officers.
Including this, since 2012, the National Police Agency has been carrying out the "Advanced Security System Transfer Project," dispatching police experts to developing countries to share Korea's security capabilities. So far, they have transferred various security technologies such as cyber, forensic investigation, crime prevention, and investigation techniques to 1,055 foreign police officers from 16 countries.
Since last year, due to difficulties in face-to-face exchanges caused by COVID-19, the police have continued the security system transfer project online, expanding the global security cooperation target countries by providing educational programs such as video training and real-time video lectures to a total of 35 countries this year. Through the Angola security capability enhancement project promoted by the Export-Import Bank of Korea, they supported the export of emergency reporting systems, and provided technical transfer training for operating emergency reporting systems in the Philippines, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Uzbekistan, and others.
In particular, the Angola security enhancement project is one of the important projects for spreading the "security Korean Wave." Using funds from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund, since 2015, they have been conducting a 50 billion KRW-scale project to build a 113 emergency reporting system modeled after Korea's police 112 in the Luanda region of Angola's capital, completing the first phase, and currently carrying out the second phase to expand to the outskirts of the capital.
Since 2018, the National Police Agency has dispatched police experts to the Angola National Police Agency, transferring strategic crime prevention and response technologies integrating CCTV operation and crime reporting response to a total of 261 local police officers over three sessions. Next year, they plan to continue advanced training and support the establishment of a sustainable crime response system for the Angola National Police Agency. Korea's security system is being transplanted intact to a foreign country.
Im Yong-hwan, Director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the National Police Agency, said, "Through security cooperation projects sharing Korea's security technologies, we support local security stability, and by expanding security official development assistance (ODA) projects that have great effects on protecting overseas Koreans and exporting security equipment, we plan to actively support our companies' entry into the global market."
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