A police sergeant, Bu, 34, from Jeju Seobu Police Station, who is accused of improperly closing the case of Jang Mi-ran, 37, who disappeared in Jeju, was found to have initially received the missing person report on May 15 and closed it within two hours by recording it as a “traffic accident death,” according to an investigation conducted on the 25th.
The “Missing Person Profiling System” enables cases to be entirely removed from the management list when the closure reason is indicated as “death.” Once deleted, these cases are still documented but remain inaccessible for review unless an officer manually investigates them.
Authorities think this characteristic is proof of Sergeant Bu’s deliberate false resolution. The first report about Jang’s disappearance, which said, “Her girlfriend, who lived with her, went out and didn’t come back,” was received at 6:43 p.m. on May 15.
However, on the same day at 9:16 p.m., Sergeant Bu closed the case, saying, “Jang did not want to meet the police and asked not to disclose her location or details to her boyfriend.” Even after it was later found that there were no call records, Sergeant Bu maintained, “We had a conversation.” The system had already marked Jang as deceased.
The Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Police Department reported on the 24th at 10:46 a.m. that an autopsy has verified the body found during a combined search near a palm tree plantation in Daerim-ri, Hallim-eup, Jeju City, belongs to Jang.
The National Police Agency said, “We have put four people on hold—former and present heads of Seobu Police Station, the head of the criminal investigation department, and the head of the missing persons unit—holding them responsible for their command roles in the incorrect resolution of the missing person case.” They further mentioned, “We are carrying out an investigation to confirm the facts and examine supervisory duties.”
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