Police to push for legal grounds to track locations of missing adults
Police will seek to introduce legal grounds to track the locations of adults reported missing as part of follow-up measures to a recent high-profile missing person case, officials said Friday. The National Police Agency said it will push to establish such provisions so that they will be able to confirm or track the data of missing adults, akin to the current system used to find missing children.…
Officials announced Friday that the National Police Agency plans to introduce legal provisions to enable tracking of missing adults' locations, following a high-profile case. The agency aims to mirror the current system for locating missing children, as investigators currently cannot monitor the mobile devices of missing adults unless a crime is suspected.
This restriction often leads police to presume the missing individuals voluntarily left home. In addition to this, the agency plans to strengthen its management of missing person cases by creating a specialized organization to handle such cases. The move comes after public criticism over a missing woman's case in Jeju, where a police officer prematurely closed the investigation without confirming her safety following her reported disappearance in May.
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