A police officer, identified as A, has been arrested on charges of falsely closing missing person cases. Reports indicate that A accessed location data for a 60-year-old man, referred to as B, after a missing person report was filed, similar to a previous case involving a 30-year-old woman, referred to as J.
According to Yonhap News and the Jeju Police Agency, A accessed B's location information at least once after a missing person report was received on July 2 at 6:02 p.m. Just over five and a half hours later, at 11:38 p.m., A claimed to have made contact with B and closed the case, entering 'location found' into the missing person profiling system.
However, B's family reported that they had not been in contact with him, leading them to file a second report on July 21. The following day, B was found dead in Gujwa-eup, Jeju City.
In a previous case on May 15, at 6:43 p.m., A had also accessed J's location data seven times after the initial missing person report. A closed that case after about two and a half hours, entering 'traffic accident death' into the profiling system and deleting related data. Despite this, when a second report was filed on July 19, A accessed J's phone location four more times the next day.
A maintained that he had made contact with both J and B when closing their cases. However, during an investigation on the night of July 27, he admitted that his claims about contacting the missing persons were false.
The police stated, 'Since A's emergency arrest on July 22, we have been focusing on understanding the motives behind his actions by analyzing statements obtained during interviews with profilers.'
* This article has been translated by AI.
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