Working at law school … Police College, 57 students enrolled-Chosun.com

Captain A, a police officer, is an active police officer who works at a front-line police station in Seoul and is also a third-year student at the Jaekyung Graduate School of Law. I entered school in 2018 and went to school for 3 years. During the first grade winter break, I worked as an intern for a week or two at a large law firm in Korea, and my law firm was hired last year without taking an attorney exam. This was said to be the first “grain size recruitment”. If you pass the attorney exam in January of next year, Captain A can go to a large law firm.

A As a captain, it is becoming popular with police officers to attend law school while dreaming of acting as a law firm in uniform. According to National Assembly legislator Kwak Sang-do (Future Integration Party) and a group preparing for judicial exams, 3, 57 of the law school freshmen came from the police force this year. Last year (27 people) he surpassed the ship. Many of these are ‘current’ police officers. This year, four police force officers passed law school at a single Seoul police station. Since 2009, when the law school was first admitted this year, 270 police officers enrolled in law school were enrolled. An official with the National Police Agency said: “If you go to the LEET test site to be admitted to law school, you will meet dozens of police officers.”

It is practically difficult to combine police life and law classes. To graduate from law school, 15 to 18 credits are required per semester for a total of 90 to 94 credits for 3 years. There are typically 16 lessons per subject. A third-year student at a Seoul National University law school said, “I’m really going to die while I follow a class and take an exam.” Most law schools don’t even have evening classes.

How the hell do cops overcome these challenges? The start is to move to the ‘shift work department’. If you work in the Police Room 112 Situation Room, you can work for two days, rest for two days, and use the yearly and semester classes to go to class once in a while. Police Officer C, who attended Sungkyunkwan University Law School this year, also recently moved to the police box.

There is also a way to select and listen to classes where attendance is not reflected in the grade assessment. The rumored province law school said: “Attendance controls are poor.” A police officer said: “Older people are actually saying ‘attendance is extensive.'”

Once you pass the attorney’s exam, the opposite happens. It is finding a more important position. Captain D, who passed the bar exam earlier this year, left the old district and moved to the main office of the National Police Agency. In this way, when you enter the labor market, you will enjoy the ‘current premium’. Song Dong-won, a lawyer specializing in law firms of a large law firm, said: “In the situation where the power of the police has increased due to the adjustment of the right to investigative investigation, the police lawyer who knows the research has merit. ” Recently, large-scale law firms like Kim & Jang and Plaza, as well as small and medium-sized law firms, are joining the police. The police even say, “I’m a fool if I quit my job because I’m going to law school.”

In 2015, the Audit Office discovered 32 police officers who secretly attended law school while retiring for reasons such as childcare or illness treatment. Then the phenomenon of going to law school after business hours spread like a fad, police officers explained.

Police officer “jugyeong reading” is illegal, but is not a violation of regulations. However, the negligence of the job followed the controversy. A student at Jaekyung Law School said, “A classmate who works as a police officer said, ‘I work on a PC while working in a department without a job.'” Another law school student said: “There were also police students who boasted that ‘police officers considered expediency in a way that would leave night shifts.”

In addition, there is also a “controversy” in that most of the headlines are from the police. The state invests around 100 million won in dormitories and living expenses to produce a police student. A police chief said, “How many police officers who have passed law school will remain in the police?”