[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] On the 16th, the police appointed Kim Byung-chan, Head of Planning and Coordination at Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, and Kim Cheol-moon, Chief of Chungju Police Station in Chungbuk, as the heads of the Metropolitan Investigation Units of the newly launched Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, respectively.
The National Police Agency announced that 49 officials, including Director Kim and Chief Kim, will be appointed effective from the 19th of this month. The establishment of the Metropolitan Investigation Units, where Director Kim and Chief Kim will serve, is a measure taken by the police to integrate existing narcotics, violent crime, financial crime, and anti-corruption investigation teams into a single unit in the Seoul and Gyeonggi Nambu agencies, where major cases have been concentrated since this year.
In this personnel reshuffle, Kim Seong-jong, Head of the Investigation Department at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, will move to become Head of the Investigation Department at Gyeongnam Police Agency. Bae Dae-hee, former Head of the Investigation Department at Jeonbuk Police Agency, will take over as Head of the Investigation Department at Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency. Noh Gyu-ho, Head of the Investigation Department at Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, will transfer to become Head of the Investigation Department at Gyeongbuk Police Agency.
Son Je-han, Chief of Changwon Jungbu Police Station in Gyeongnam and former head of the special investigation headquarters for the Itaewon disaster, will become Head of the Investigation Department at Busan Police Agency. Kim Dong-kwon, Public Relations Officer at the National Police Agency, will move to become Chief of Songpa Police Station in Seoul. Yoo Seung-ryeol, Director General, was appointed as Public Safety Information Review Officer at the National Police Agency; Jeong Sang-jin, Director General, as Director of the Police Investigation Research Institute; and Lee Jae-young, Director General, as Head of the Faculty at the Central Police Academy.
Oh Bu-myeong, Director General, will serve as Head of the Security Department at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency; Do Jun-su, Director General, as Police Administrator at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency; and Park Dong-hyun, Director General, as Acting Commander of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Riot Police Unit.
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