As shoddy investigations into the Jang Yun-gi case and a false closure of a Jeju missing-person case erupted in succession and the Korean National Police Agency issued a special alert on public service discipline, the National Police Workplace Council (police workplace council), a union-equivalent body for police officers, said, "Immediately stop collective-responsibility style organizational control."
On the 28th, the police workplace council said accordingly, "What on earth is the relationship between the misconduct of some police officers and gatherings of police officers nationwide?" The Korean National Police Agency issued a special alert for 10 days starting that day and ordered restraint from drinking, a ban on gatherings, and postponement of events.
The police workplace council said, "Thoroughly investigate police officers who committed misconduct and hold them strictly accountable, and if there were failures in management or supervision, the responsible commander must also be held accountable," while adding, "The Korean National Police Agency has once again chosen the easiest method."
It continued, "Is sending warning letters to all police officers and controlling their conduct every time an incident occurs what the Korean National Police Agency leadership calls organizational management?" and added, "We cannot help but ask whether it is normal organizational management to uniformly ban even after-hours dinners with colleagues paid out of one's own pocket, when the agency does not even subsidize staff gathering expenses."
The police workplace council also pointed out that the leadership is not taking responsibility. The police workplace council said, "If problems are occurring repeatedly within the police organization, rather than first banning gatherings of front-line officers, we must examine why misconduct is recurring, whether there were problems in the command and supervision system, and whether the Korean National Police Agency's organizational management and personnel and inspection policies functioned properly."
It then urged Acting Commissioner General Yu Jae-seong of the Korean National Police Agency, "Do not treat police officers nationwide as potential wrongdoers," and said, "Instead of a showy control measure of banning gatherings, identify the causes of misconduct and hold the responsible parties precisely to account."