조선 중기 捕盜大將 인사 특성과 정치적 의미

Abstract

Right and Left Police Departments of Joseon period was the security unit in charge of catching the thief and going on a round of inspection in the capital. The Right and Left commissioners of Police Departments were appointed in rank 2B post of military officer order and had also much political authority by being given security power. Contrary to the former of Joseon period, the Commander of Police Department was given a great deal of weight on military and political aspects after Japanese invasion of 1592, holding additional the commander of central-garrison position. Furthermore, as factional strife intensified in the middle of Joseon, each partisans all sought to hold physical forces of Capital Police and Five Army Garrisons by a mean to inevitably foreordain political predominance. Accordingly, the Commander of Capital Police was appointed among limited members belonging to each political party. The Commander of Capital Police selecting under political conditions supported actively political situation of ruling party. As the organization of Five Army Garrisons settled in Sukjong period, the strategy of national defense was changed into intensive defense system centering the capital. As a result, Military Training Command, Royal Guards Command, Capital Garrison, Capital Police being responsible for security of the capital occupied high position. In the purge period, the political struggle among political parties, such as Southerners and Westerners can have a thorough grasp of the phases by investigating the personnel of the commanders of each garrison and capital police, plural offices’ system. The thesis would form a basis of pursuing political sense of military and security power by more extending the areas until the organization on commanders of each garrison, the personnel of the commander of capital police, and plural offices.