경찰 직무수행에서 법학적 소양의 중요성

Abstract

At least, it may be because I am one of the stakeholders that I feel that law is being neglected in the recent changes in the civil service selection exam. The recent trend in open recruitment tests, whether LEET or PSAT, seems to be to evaluate human qualities, especially understanding and agility, rather than professional knowledge. This is a trend that is taking lightly the evaluation of the basic professional knowledge and attitude that public officials must have, due to the interests of the responsible organizations that want to make it easier to manage complex and sensitive public recruitment exams and the interests of test takers who want to simplify the efforts required to prepare for the exam. It is possible to criticize that Regarding the overall trend of simplification of the civil service recruitment exam, there are complaints that it is trying to make work too easy while the number of applicants is decreasing, and regarding the downplaying of the legal knowledge and attitude required for civil servants, it is impossible not to point out the basic lack of understanding of the past government. The perception that it was enough to select a 9th grade civil servant through the national exam subject in the high school curriculum had fatal consequences for Korean university education. Among public officials, especially corrections officials, police officials, and other public officials in many fields who must exercise investigative authority, if they fall into a certain rank or position, they become so-called ‘special judicial police officials’ through a separate procedure and exercise investigative authority. needs to be viewed differently from general administrative civil servants. It is natural that the field they must investigate requires a minimum understanding of the legal system as a prerequisite for investigation. In particular, unlike other civil servants, they must use physical force against the bodies and property of others while performing their duties. This is because he is a public servant with a scheduled job to do. Anyone who is granted this authority and instead exercises investigative authority is subject to strict liability under criminal law, so this is a job that requires even more legal knowledge, but this point is being overlooked. Therefore, it is proposed that people with a certain level of legal knowledge should be selected through special training in advance.