Jeonnam Police Maintain ‘Peaceful Chuseok Vacation’ For Special Security Activities

Safe traffic management and safety without major incidents and accidents

[아시아경제 호남취재본부 김춘수 기자] During this Chuseok holiday, the number of critical crime reports decreased by 15.1% and traffic accidents decreased by 29.3%, indicating that they had a peaceful Chuseok holiday.

The Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency announced that serious crime and traffic accidents decreased while promoting ‘Comprehensive Safety Measures for Chuseok Holidays’ for 14 days from 21 to 4 last month.

To this end, Jeonnam Police promoted crime prevention councils in convenience stores and financial facilities and conducted crime prevention diagnostics to compensate for vulnerable elements, and jointly patrolled crime-prone areas in cooperation with cooperative organizations such as autonomous crime prevention teams.

In addition, by deploying the available police force as much as possible and concentrating all efforts on crime prevention and rapid response, such as empty house burglary and burglary, there was not a single case of burglary and the theft decreased by a 5.7% compared to last year.

Additionally, domestic violence is expected to increase through crime big data analysis during the Chuseok period, and domestic violence reports by 14.3% and child abuse reports decreased by 14.3% and 63, 6% respectively when monitoring families concerned about recurrence and abuse before the holiday season.

Through communication-oriented traffic management and intensive repression of dangerous and degrading driving, traffic accidents were reduced and a stable flow of vehicles was maintained.

With the spread of Corona 19, the volume of traffic in Jeollanam-do has decreased compared to last year, and traffic police are concentrated around the usually congested section, and traffic is secured by managing three-dimensional traffic through the use of armed patrol vehicles (1 unit) and helicopters (1 unit). He focused on solving the residents’ inconvenience.

During the Chuseok holiday period, the traffic volume in the Jeonnam area averaged 630,000 units per day, 7.4% less than the 680,000 vehicles from the previous year, there were 87 traffic accidents, 29.3% ( -39 cases) decreased compared to the previous year (123 cases) and victims also died 1 There were 142 people and injuries, 50% and 46.2% less than the previous year, respectively.

An official from the Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency said: “The police are the closest neighbor to the residents and they plan to build close community security with local residents and actively promote public safety activities to communicate with them.”

Reporter Chun-Soo Kim, Honam News Headquarters [email protected]