The municipal police system is one of the essential parts of local autonomous system and decentralization. It's not exaggerative to say that the very starting point of local autonomous system is autonomy in education and security. In this sense, the m...
The municipal police system is one of the essential parts of local autonomous system and decentralization. It's not exaggerative to say that the very starting point of local autonomous system is autonomy in education and security. In this sense, the municipal police system is a sufficient condition for the settlement of local self-government system. This study focuses on the current state and domestic and foreign policies of the introduction of the municipal police system following decentralization and administrative system reorganization. Since this nation's decentralization, there were constant requests for the introduction of the municipal police system, but they failed. To determine why the system couldn't be introduced, this study identifies and analyzes factors that brought the policy failure and make political suggestions for a successful settlement of the municipal policy system.
For its objectives as foresaid, this study consists of 5 chapters whose coverage is as follows. First, the lst chapter discusses the purpose, range and method of this research on the introduction of the municipal police system under an assumption that more and more attention will be paid to such police system in keeping pace with the implementation of local autonomous system and decentralization.
Second, the 2nd chapter provides a theoretical discussion of the municipal police system in which the very significance, nature and idea of the system is described. This chapter also examines the types and organization of the municipal police system with references to domestic and foreign relevant literatures. And the chapter discusses the legal bases and issues of the system.
Third, the 3rd chapter discusses the current state of the municipal police system. Specifically, the chapter discusses foreign developed countries' police systems which are already municipal and compares and analyzes the previous Korean governments' political attempts to implement the municipal police system.
Fourth, the 4th chapter set sort of performance indicators which would be used to determine why previous deliberations on the introduction of the municipal police system failed. With the indicators, the chapter found there were conflicts over the introduction between concerned policy participants and governmental organizations and then investigated what caused the disputes.
Fifth, the 5th chapter provides a conclusion and political suggestions. Considering the reasons why the previous governments failed to implement the municipal police system, the chapter make some political suggestions that focus on issues which the present Lee Myeong Bak administration has to discuss in advance in order to introduce the municipal police system.
Findings of the study can be summarized as follows. First, this nation's former presidents of the civilian, the people's and the participatory governments They directly participated in making a policy for the introduction. There were lots of conflicts among participants of the policy over the acceptance or non-acceptance and priorities of the system. Especially, there were serious disputes among concerned authorities over the level to which the municipal police system were to be introduced and the organizational structure of the system.
Second, the foresaid policy was not made in time, resultantly contributing to failure in the introduction of the new police system. Both the civilian and the people's governments didn't succeed in introducing the municipal police system. Also in the participatory government, the system failed to be introduced as the term of the 17th national assembly terminated. The failure was partly because it was not finally supported.
Third, the municipal police system couldn't be legislated because negotiations over the level to which the system was to be introduced and the organizational structure and personnel management of the system were not successful.
Recently, the present government announced that the municipal police system would be introduced to local self-governing regions that were created through the integration of smaller local autonomous regions. But substantial plans and method of the introduction has been not yet prepared. Under this circumstance provides some political suggestions as it takes for granted that this nation's policy system should become municipal.