The government has reorganized the system to protect victims of abuse at an early stage, and the chief of police said that all reports of child abuse will be directed and supervised from the initial action to the termination process. On the 20th, the Blue House released answers to five public petitions related to the’Yangcheon child abuse death case’.
Previously, petitions were posted on the Blue House National Petition Bulletin for the police officer in charge of passively responding to the recent incident, severe punishment for adoptive parents for child abuse, and measures to prevent the outbreak. The Blue House responded to five cases, including four petitions with more than 200,000 consents and one with more than 160,000 consents.
The answers were given by the National Police Commissioner Kim Chang-ryong and Kwon Deok-cheol, Minister of Health and Welfare, who have jurisdiction over child protection. Commissioner Kim Chang-ryong first said, “I feel heavy responsibility as the chief officer of the police for failing to protect the lives of children victims of abuse during the initial response and investigation process.” “Responding to child abuse so that precious lives are not sacrificed again. “I will completely renew the system.”
The police’s countermeasures against child abuse include: △Establish an early protection system for victims of abuse △Establish a department in charge of child abuse prevention policies at the National Police Agency and establish a cooperative system with related organizations △Expansion of the institutional foundation to exercise responsible police rights at the site of child abuse. The plan was revealed.
Commissioner Kim said, “All reports of child abuse will be directed and supervised by the police chief from the initial action to the termination process, and even follow-up protection and support measures will be confirmed. In addition, he promised to strengthen the response system by establishing a dedicated investigation team to directly investigate cases of child abuse under the age of 13 at the metropolitan and provincial police offices.” In order to implement related measures, the deputy head of the National Police Agency and the head of the National Investigation Headquarters are planning to form and inspect the’Comprehensive Response TF for the Elimination of Child Abuse’.
Commissioner Kim said that he was in charge of commanding the incident and criticized the head of the Yangcheon Police Station in Seoul and the Head of Women and Youth, and that the Seoul Metropolitan Police Department, who was well versed in the fields of women and youth, was appointed as the successor chief. In the future, Kim promised, “Based on a thorough investigation of the facts, we will comprehensively consider the responses of the person in charge of the case and the individual managers and the consequences caused by this, so that the public will be convinced by disciplinary measures, etc.,” he promised.
Minister of Welfare Kwon Deok-cheol said, “The government is reinforcing the state responsibility for child abuse. In particular, in July of last year, the government established and promoted joint child abuse measures with relevant ministries, including the deployment of child abuse officials, the legalization of the immediate separation system, and expansion of shelters. He said, “We will take seriously the opinion of the people that certain measures are necessary to ensure that the various measures we have been promoting are properly implemented in the field, and we intend to prepare and implement additional improvement measures for each response step.”
Minister Kwon said he will strengthen the cooperation system between the police, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and local governments. First of all, “We will greatly strengthen education such as hands-on practical education and legal education so that police and child abuse officials can make a close investigation and accurate judgment based on their expertise.” “We will expand the scope of access for field investigations and fines for negligence if the investigation is rejected. I will also upgrade.”
In addition, “We will deploy child abuse officials in 229 cities, counties, and gus across the country, and expand child protection personnel to check the rearing status of separated children.” “At the central level, we will review the overall child abuse response system. , We will also seek effective improvement measures.” The plan is to operate an emergency preparedness system leading to the’Central-Si/Do-Si/Gun/Gu’ so that the separation system will be immediately implemented from March.
He also said, “We will strengthen the public responsibility of the adoption system.” Minister Kwon said, “We will support the stabilization of the attachment relationship between the child and the parent through psychological counseling and health check-ups for one year after adoption. We will also increase the number of checks by the government on whether adoption agencies comply with due process. “In addition, we will institutionalize pre-adoptment pre-adoptment so that we can see the process of mutual adaptation between prospective adoptive parents and children, and strengthen the responsibility of the state and local governments in the adoption process. He said, “We will prepare an amendment to the’Special Adoption Act’ so that it can be legislated as soon as possible.”
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