제17대 대통령 후보자들의 치안정책 공약 비교 분석 및 평가

Abstract

This study examines public security policies of 12 presidential candidates who have registered to the National Election Commission by November 26, 2007. However, top three candidates in the public opinion survey, the Grand National Party’s Lee Myung-bak, the United New Democratic Party’s Chung Dong-young and independent Lee Hoi-chang did not provide clear public security policies because of other political issues. Therefore, first, this study examines public security policies and their results from the previous president elects as the base of policy analysis. Comparative analysis of public security policies of the current presidential candidates would provide some answers for the imminent issues on public security policies. This study uses materials from candidates’ election camp, each party’s official home-page, and news material of KBS 9 O’clock News (Nov. 24 2007). In addition, this study complemented the research materials by using KINDS Search of Korean Press Foundation between January 1, 2007 and November 26, 2007. Considering all those materials, this study decided to include public security policies of 7 candidates, the United New Democratic Party’s Chung Dong-young, the Grand National Party’s Lee Myung-bak, the Democratic Labor Party’s Kwon, Young-gil, the Democratic Party’s Rhee, In-je, the People First Party’s Shim Dae-pyung, the Creat Korea Party’s Moon, Kook-hyun, and independent Lee Hoi-chang. This study found that most candidates included ‘readjustment of investigative authority between prosecutor and police’, and ‘introduction of local police system’. However, these policies were included in the previous president elects and were never realized in the previous regimes. This study is worrying about that repetition from current candidates. Public security policies such as ‘readjustment of investigative authority between prosecutor and police’, and ‘introduction of local police system’ should be implemented in coming regime. For this, police administrators and officers have to concentrate their efforts and abilities into this matter. In addition, police leaders need to have more proactive attitudes toward presidential candidates if they have critical policy issues for the development of police organization.