The Democratic Party's police reform task force said on the 8th that it will hold a meeting with victims of police investigations.
The meeting will take place on the 9th at the National Assembly Members' Office Building, where the task force will hear views from victims of police investigations and officials from victim support groups on problems in police investigations and ways to improve them.
Attendees will include bereaved family members of a victim in a quasi-rape case at a bar in Ansan and Choi Ran, deputy director of the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, who has supported the family. Also expected to attend are Baek Young-nam, co-representative of the National Association of Sexual Violence Relief Centers; an anti-sexual violence activist known as "Solidarity Activist D"; Oh Ji-won, managing attorney at the law office Law and Healing; and Baek So-yoon, an attorney at Gonggam Public Interest Law Foundation.
The party's police reform task force is co-headed by Rep. Kim Nam-hee and Rep. Lee Hae-sik and includes Rep. Lee Ki-heon, Rep. Lee Ju-hee, Rep. Lim Mi-ae and Rep. Kim Dong-ah. It was launched after calls grew for an overhaul of the police organization, following cases such as the false closure of a missing-person report in Jeju and the Jang Yoon-gi case, which surfaced after the Democratic Party pushed through the abolition of the prosecution's supplementary investigation authority.
Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok also attended the task force's first meeting held in the main National Assembly building on the 1st, where he identified six major failings — shielding fellow officers, burying cases, closing cases without authorization, concealing evidence, fabricating evidence, leaking investigative information and violating personal data — and said, "Various measures must be devised to the fullest extent so that these can be rooted out."
