Chief Superintendent Hwang Jeong-in will serve as working-level team leader of the "Constitution-respecting government innovation TF (task force)," which is investigating whether police engaged in illegal acts during the Dec. 3 martial law. Hwang is a figure who suffered personnel disadvantages after attending a "chief superintendents' meeting" opposing the creation of the Police Bureau under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
According to police and others on the 19th, Chief Superintendent Hwang has been designated as the TF working-level team leader and began reporting to the Korean National Police Agency from that day to continue building out the TF. The TF Director General will be Acting Commissioner General Yoo Jae-seong.
The Constitution-respecting government innovation TF is an organization set up to investigate whether civil servants from 49 ministries and agencies took part in the imposition of martial law, and it will be installed under the Office for Government Policy Coordination and each ministry. The police are one of 12 entities designated as "priority inspection agencies," along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the prosecution, and others.
In July 2022, during the Yoon administration, Hwang attended a "chief superintendents' meeting" opposing the creation of the Police Bureau and was subsequently transferred from head of the narcotics crime investigation unit at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to academic affairs manager at the Police Human Resources Development Institute. Because the academic affairs manager position is usually held by a superintendent, one rank lower, the move was seen as a demotion.
Hwang later served as chief of the women and youth division at the South Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency and, since March, has headed the Seosan Police Station in South Chungcheong.
Hwang also posted a message on the police intranet on Dec. 10, a week after martial law occurred last year, saying, "The police should arrest Yoon Suk-yeol."