An entrance to a police station /Courtesy of Yonhap News

An on-duty police officer who entered a women's restroom while heavily intoxicated has been placed on standby.

According to Seogwipo Police Station on the 27th, police responded to a report on the night of the 20th at a restaurant in Seogwipo that "a man is in the women's restroom" and apprehended Inspector A, in their 50s, affiliated with the Jeju Police Agency, who was heavily intoxicated.

At the time, Inspector A was reportedly drinking at the restaurant. Police placed Inspector A on standby and booked the inspector on suspicion of trespassing into a multiuse facility for sexual purposes under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, and are investigating whether there was intent in the crime.

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