"So My Daughter Could Win an Apartment"...Police Officer Caught Falsely Registering Her at Police Housing

[Financial News] A serving police officer is under an internal investigation after allegedly falsely registering his adult daughter as a resident at police housing. In Sejong Special Self-Governing City, where competition for housing subscriptions is fierce, the officer may have used a household-separation loophole to make his daughter eligible for an apartment subscription.
On the 11th, Sejong Provincial Police Agency said it had discovered that the adult daughter of Police Lieutenant Colonel A, who is affiliated with Sejong Northern Police Station, had registered her address at a studio-style police housing unit near the station in Jochiwon-eup, Sejong Special Self-Governing City.
Police Lieutenant Colonel A reportedly moved his daughter’s registered address to the housing unit about two years ago, but investigators found that he himself had not even applied to live there. The police are conducting an internal investigation while considering the possibility that A attempted fraudulent resident registration so that his daughter could gain an advantage in Sejong’s apartment subscription lottery through household separation.
The misconduct came to light after the Korean National Police Agency launched a nationwide inspection of police housing following a recent case in which a non-police relative falsely registered an address and lived without authorization for as long as 10 years at Yangsan Police Station housing in South Gyeongsang Province.
Immediately after the case was discovered, police arranged for A’s daughter to move her registered address from the housing unit to another location. They are investigating the circumstances of the registration and the entire process by which the housing was occupied. A is reportedly prepared to cooperate fully with the internal investigation.
The gap in police housing management is believed to have resulted from the fact that current regulations do not require residents to register their addresses when using such housing. In addition, because the units are leased properties, it is difficult to check each resident’s actual occupancy or every household registered there.
A police official said, "Although the daughter did not actually live in the housing unit, we took steps to have her address moved immediately." The official added, "Going forward, we will improve the system in consultation with relevant agencies and landlords so that the police are immediately notified of address registrations and other changes."


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