Jeju police officer faces possible arrest over mishandling of missing person case
JEJU — A Jeju police officer accused of wrongfully closing a missing person case that may have led to the woman's death attended an arrest warrant hearing at a court on the southern resort island Tuesday. The Jeju District Court began the officer's arrest warrant hearing at 2:30 p.m. on charges of dereliction of duty, forgery, falsifying public electronic records and obstruction of official…
On Tuesday, a Jeju police officer appeared at an arrest warrant hearing at the Jeju District Court, facing charges of neglecting their duties, forging documents, altering electronic records, and obstructing official duties through deception. The hearing commenced at 2:30 p.m. The officer is accused of improperly concluding a missing person case involving Jang Mi-ran in May, without verifying her well-being and erasing her details from the police's missing persons profiling system. Subsequently, a body believed to be Jang's was discovered on the island on Monday.
Furthermore, the officer had prematurely closed another missing person case last month, and the body of a male in his sixties was found on Saturday. He was detained under emergency measures on Saturday but was released on Monday after a court assessed the legitimacy of his detention.
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