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“I will investigate and prosecute at the level of the public”
Deputy Minister Kim said at the inauguration ceremony held at the government’s Gwacheon government office that day, “in order for the airlift to establish itself as a human rights-friendly investigative agency trusted by the people, it will have to be born as an investigative body that practices fair investigations.”
Director Kim said, “In front of the law that no one can exist above the law, we will be able to gain public trust only through the investigation and Kisoray that embodies the principle of equality and rule of law, and maintains the political neutrality of the people, not on the side of the ruling party or the opposition party. Said.
“If the authority of the airlift is received from the sovereign people, the airlifter who received the authority must always remember and remember this fact and exercise its power,” said Kim. “I would like to call this exercise of authority as an exercise of reflective power.” Said.
He added, “If we exercise our authority in reflection, we will humbly exercise the authority in front of the people,” he said. “Before making important decisions such as investigation and prosecution, whether it is a decision that meets the level of the sovereign people, the constitution, law, and conscience. You will look back.”
Director Kim said, “We will cooperate with other investigative agencies while conducting human rights-friendly investigations while complying with the constitutional due process principles, and establish a relationship to cooperate with other investigative agencies and check what is to be checked.” “I will create a horizontal organizational culture that I do.”
He said, “In the past, wrong investigation practices that put only the results of the investigation first can be partly responsible for the closed and rigid organizational culture,” he said. “By recruiting talented people with diverse backgrounds and backgrounds through fair and transparent procedures, vitalizing the airlift. I will make it an organization that I have and want to work.
He said, “The journey that the Airborne Ministry is taking from today is a path that our dedication history has never been on,” he said. “I will take this path from the perspective of the people, communicate with the people, and walk along this path with the people while challenging this path that no one has taken.”
Kim’s term of office began on this day as the progress report of the personnel hearing passed the National Assembly the day before and President Moon Jae-in approved the appointment that day.
Director Kim is expected to begin the work of picking up prosecutors and investigators with the deputy chief of the Ministry of Public Transport.
In particular, the interests of the legal and political circles have been focused on the deputy general manager Insun. This is because there are observations that the deputy chief will exercise command of the investigation by supplementing Deputy General Kim, who was a former judge and has little investigation experience. Deputy chiefs must have more than 10 years of experience in the legal profession and are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the chief executive.
Airborne prosecutors are appointed by the President after recommendation from the HR Committee among those with more than 7 years of experience as a lawyer. The HR Committee consists of 7 members, including the head of the airborne and the deputy, one commissioned by the deputy, two recommended by the ruling party, and two recommended by the opposition party.
The Airborne Department consists of 25 prosecutors from the investigation department, 40 investigators from the investigation department, and 20 administrative affairs staff, including the chief and the deputy chief. It is expected that it will be March this year to become an investigative body that can be fully investigated by the air defense agency through such a line-up process.
At the National Assembly personnel hearing on the 19th, Chief Kim predicted that “it will take at least two months, including the selection of the deputy chief and the prosecutor for the investigation department.”