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South Korea grants police more power amid cover-up concerns

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South Korea is granting its national police force expanded investigative powers, despite recent incidents that have exposed significant flaws within the system. Two cases involving missing individuals, where police allegedly fabricated calls and closed cases without proper verification, have raised serious concerns about the police's accountability and trustworthiness. These events have ignited a national debate regarding the suitability of the police force to handle increased authority. AI

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South Korea grants police more power amid cover-up concerns

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Park Chan-kyong ·

    South Korea hands police more power even as dead bodies expose the lies

    On a farm up in the hills of South Korea’s Jeju Island, investigators this week uncovered what a mother had spent three months fearing they would not find: the body of her daughter. Jang Mi-ran, 37, vanished without a trace in May. Police records would later show her case had bee…

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