'Now If You Stalk, You Wear an Electronic Ankle Bracelet' 3043 People Tentatively Targeted Today

[Financial News] In the future, if you ignore the other party's expression of "No" and continue stalking, you may be required to wear a location-tracking electronic device. With stalking and dating murder cases occurring one after another, the focus has shifted from victim-centered to managing the perpetrator. 
Yoo Jae-seong, acting commissioner of the National Police Agency, visited the Seobu Police Station in Daejeon on the 31st and stated, "We will take multiple reports to the police or incidents occurring during restraining order periods as opportunities for insight and concentrate police capabilities," thus announcing this. Yoo's visit to Daejeon that day was due to an incident on the 29th where a man in his 20s killed his ex-girlfriend in her 30s and fled, only to be caught a day later. Similar relational crimes have also occurred in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, and Ulsan.
The police will first conduct a thorough inspection of cases with ongoing restraining orders due to stalking. The aim is to reassess the risk to prevent crimes that occur by violating restraining orders, such as the attempted murder case in Ulsan. For those deemed at high risk of reoffending, additional strong separation measures like attaching a location-tracking electronic device or detention will be requested. Temporary measures such as written warnings, restraining orders, and location-tracking electronic devices can be applied to stalkers.  
As of today, there are 3043 individuals subject to emergency and temporary measures under the Stalking Punishment Act, including restraining orders. Weekly monitoring will be conducted for stalking occurring in romantic relationships, and safety measures such as private security will be strengthened.
Teams of 7-8 members will be intensively deployed around restraining order subjects for mobile patrols, including placing patrol cars at strategic points. Stop-and-search checks will be conducted to verify possession of weapons and block reoffending psychology. Existing measures, such as providing victims with smartwatches, are seen as limiting victims' daily lives and insufficient for ensuring safety, thus focusing on measures against perpetrators.
The 'Reoffending Risk Assessment,' which has been piloted for high-risk relational crimes since the 14th, will also be strengthened. The emphasis will be on the risk of reoffending when applying for arrest warrants to ensure they are issued. The 'Active Administration Immunity System' will be utilized to prevent investigators from facing difficulties due to complaints.
The police plan to thoroughly analyze related cases that led to murder and prepare comprehensive measures for relational crimes. They aim to fill the legislative gaps in dating violence where restraining orders cannot be applied due to lack of legal grounds, and to supplement interim and temporary measures related to domestic violence and stalking, which require passing through police-prosecutor-court stages, through social discussions. Criticism has been raised that timely victim protection was not achieved in cases like the Uijeongbu stalking murder and the Ulsan attempted murder, as the prosecution dismissed the temporary measures requested by the police.
Yoo stated, "For high-risk cases, we will closely cooperate with related agencies such as the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to establish an organic protection system from preemptive intervention to post-management," and "We will explore all means to prevent further tragedies from recurring."
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