한국의 자치경찰제도의 현황과 과제

Abstract

Autonomous police is currently being implemented only in Jeju-do, and legal ground of operating Autonomous Police Agency in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province is the Law of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province enacted and proclaimed on February 21 2005. Based on this law, Autonomous Police Agency in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province was founded on July 1, 2006. Work scope of Jeju Autonomous Police includes four fields in accordance with Article 108, the Law of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province: 1) work related with day to day safety of local residents; 2) traffic control of the area; 3) work related with security of public facilities and local event venues; 4) work as the judicial police as stipulated for task of autonomous police officers by "Law related with those who can perform the task as a judicial police officer and their work scope". However, criminal investigation is not included in its scope, and should Jeju Autonomous Police arrest a criminal, it must deliver him or her to Jeju Police. In this regard, Jeju Autonomous Police can be considered as a much insufficient autonomous police system. That said, legislative bill for autonomous police currently submitted to the National Assembly adopts similar system like Jeju Autonomous Police system. Of special note is that autonomous police will be adopted only to elementary local governments (not to metropolitan areas) and criminal investigation authority is not allowed to it, resulting in its very limited scope of functions and roles as autonomous police. This study conducts analysis of issues of legislative bill for autonomous police currently submitted to the National Assembly, and would like to propose legislative improvement plans to strengthen functions and status of autonomous police in preparation of full-scale implementation of autonomous police in the future.