일본경찰의 입직 승진제도의 현황 및 시사점

Abstract

The Korean police are composed of 95 per cent of the federation rank (Inspector and below) and only 5 per cent of middle managing staff and senior officers. The Eiffel Tower-shaped rank-related human resources structure demonstrates that the small number of middle managing staff when compared to other public departments and agencies frustrated rank and file officers for a long period, which highly dissatisfied them as a result. The Korean National Police University, which has produced a large proportion of police middle managers every year came to be in the center of the complaint and dissatisfaction of the low rank officers who criticize the young KNPU graduates are blocking their chances of promotion into the managing level. A huge number of auxiliary officers and combat police officers (1 third of the number of regular officers) who render miliary service in the police organization will no longer work for the police in several coming years. Therefore the Korean police have to recruit a huge number of rookies in a short period of time in order to cover the great demands of public order policing, putting down riots and street demonstrations. In this context, this study is to compare the current police recruits and promotion system in Korea with those in Japan so that the researcher suggests some preparations and improvements from the Japanese case in the same Asian region (Far East).