Improvements in Traffic, Suicide, and Infectious Disease
Top Grade Achieved in Fire and Infectious Disease
Focused Response to Crime-Prone Areas
Promotion of Citizen-Participatory Safety Policies
Gumi City, North Gyeongsang Province, announced on January 14 that it ranked first in safety among city-level local governments in North Gyeongsang Province for the second consecutive year in the '2025 Regional Safety Index Assessment' organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
This ranking is based on a comprehensive evaluation of six areas: traffic accidents, fires, crime, daily safety, suicide, and infectious diseases. Gumi City has reaffirmed its status as a model city for regional safety.
This year’s assessment objectively analyzed safety levels and safety awareness using 2024 statistics.
As a result, Gumi City improved by one level each in the areas of traffic accidents, suicide, and infectious diseases compared to the previous year. It was also the only city in the province to achieve the top grade in both fire and infectious disease categories. Considering that only 35 cities, counties, and districts nationwide showed improvement in three or more categories compared to the previous year, this achievement is particularly significant.
To address the relatively vulnerable area of crime, the city will strengthen prevention-focused measures. CCTV cameras will be intensively installed in areas where the five major crimes-murder, robbery, rape, assault, and theft-are most likely to occur, and the operation of child safety protection houses and voluntary crime prevention patrols will be expanded.
Resident-participation crime prevention programs will also be implemented in parallel to enhance on-site response capabilities.
Gumi City Mayor Kim Jangho stated, "Taking this assessment as an opportunity, we will review all our safety policies and hope that prevention-focused measures will become firmly established in the field."
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