주취폭력자의 실태와 향후과제

Abstract

Heavily drunken persons means persons intoxicated in alcohol to a degree that hinders such drunken people to make ordinary decision acceptable under the social concept due to the influence of alcohol. Intoxication becomes a problem when, first, it causes disorderly conduct from intoxication, causing damages to the community. And, second, maintain order and security from such disorder requires excessive policy personnel and expenses. Problems of such intoxication in alcohol have emerged as a significant issue for police works. According to the data of the National Police Agency, 93.7% of the police officers worked in district police offices experienced some sort of damage or work intervention from the heavily drunken persons with profanity, violence, damage to police properties and so forth while working. And furthermore, as a result of cracking down heavily drunken persons with violent crime to interfere with the execution of government affairs on habitual basis under the influence of alcohol in 2011, a total of 1,068 persons was arrested and 938 persons, or 87.8%, were convicted. However, in the process, the police has to consider the possibilities of causing distrust from people or treating simple heavily drunken persons as the criminal heavily drunken persons with the mass production of convicts. These heavily drunken persons are subject of ‘protection’ as well as the subject of ‘control’. It is an important issue to establish the harmony for mutually conflicting issue, but it is difficult to deny the need of active intervention of policy on the issue of handling heavily drunken persons by breaking away from its passive attitude. For future task to efficiently take care of such an issue, following improvement plan for laws and system has been proposed to appropriate to our situation. First, the legal basis has to be clarified for the protection of heavily drunken persons. Second, comprehensive emergency rescue system between pertinent institutions has to be established. Third, the heavily drunken persons have to be identified by experts. Fourth, efficacy has to be secured as realistic way of imposing sanction. And, fifth, the one-stop emergency medical center has to be expanded for heavily drunken persons. More than anything else, the police personnel alone could not efficiently prevent the issues of heavily drunken persons. Therefore, there has to be positive accompaniment of residents in stringent law enforcement of police by securing and providing reliability with positive participation and cooperation.