The Korean National Police Agency, together with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), decided to pursue a 18 billion won project to strengthen Cambodia's on-site police forensics and forensic science capabilities through a public security official development assistance (ODA) program.
According to the Korean National Police Agency on the 29th, Yoo Jae-seong, acting commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, held a "Korea-Cambodia security chiefs meeting" with Sar Thet, Cambodia's police chief, and discussed security cooperation measures that included this plan.
The two commissioners gave high marks to the "Korea task force" and agreed to expand the scope of cooperation. The core is to broaden joint efforts from the existing scam crimes to drugs and illegal online gambling.
During the intensive operation period from December last year to March this year, the Korea task force arrested 166 criminal suspects, including Korean fugitives, in Cambodia. It also rescued five Korean nationals who had been detained locally.
The Korean National Police Agency said it expects to provide stronger protection for Korean nationals residing in Cambodia through security cooperation and to gain momentum in investigations into transnational crimes.