경찰의 범죄피해자 보호·지원 조직 및 예산운영의 개선방안

Abstract

While the police declared 2015 “The First Year of Protection for Crime Victims Protection”, the police’s protection and support program for victim it is expected to be further developed. This study was designed to explore the development strategy of the police policy of protecting and supporting victims of crime. It aimed to identify the current situation and problems of police organization and budget management for crime victims, and effective policy alternatives for building infrastructure, such as the direction and organization of the police and budget policies. First, much problems were identified as ambiguity of policy direction of protection and support of crime victims, duplication of victim program policy to central government, lack of systemicity of organizations with regard to the organization's operations. With regard to budget management in the Crime Victims Protection Fund, including the issue of negligence of urgency and present sense, duplicate assignments of the victim support project budget, the budget allocation irrationality, excessive assign of uncontrollable expenditures were noted. In this study, we propose a strategy to solve the further problems as follows. First of all, the concept of victim in police victim support policies should be extended from criminal victims to humanistic victims. Second, it shall establish a funding strategy through the independent police victim services excavations. For example, it is possible to consider initial crisis intervention counseling, crime victim impact assessment, providing information system building. Third, we suggest to revise related laws and to improve human configure of Fund Management Committee, budget allocations reflect the real crime in the Crime Victims Protection Fund. Finally, as a long-term development plan for police protection of victims and support organizations require coordination of the National Police, Local Police, police units. And, there is a need for coordination of victim protection tasks distributed among individual departments.