Posts Tagged With: police

Drowning Death of Dongducheon Policeman Being Reinvestigated

» by GI Korea January 11th, 2012 at 5:29 pm » Comments (3)

Something fishy going on with police department in Dongducheon: Police said Tuesday they will reinvestigate the death of a young conscripted policeman who they had announced was killed in a rescue ...more »

Update On Police Killing of Jose Guerena Ortiz

» by GI Korea November 28th, 2011 at 8:24 am » Comments (104)

The vast majority of policemen I think do a great job, but it just seems to me there has been this increase in trigger happy wannabe SWAT personnel that led ...more »

Korean Police To Use Guns More & Rely Less On Riot Police Draftees

» by GI Korea October 28th, 2011 at 3:42 am » Comments (6)

Supposedly Korean police are going to have more leeway to use their guns: The nation's police chief on Tuesday declared war on criminal gangs nationwide, ordering police officers to aggressively use ...more »

Picture of the Day: Korea’s Eco-Friendly Police

» by GI Korea September 23rd, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="363" caption="The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency will operate an eco-friendly electric patrol vehicle the T3. Running on electric battery and producing no carbon emission and noise, the ...more »

SWAT Team & Steven Seagal Called In To Bust Cock Fighter

» by GI Korea September 1st, 2011 at 9:22 am » Comments (12)

Is this another example of the militarization of America's police force? Steven Seagal is being threatened with a lawsuit over his part in a police raid that was taped for his ...more »

First Filipina Woman to Become a Korean Police Officer

» by GI Korea December 8th, 2009 at 5:01 pm » Comments (20)

As long as she doesn't sleep in her squad car she will be an improvement over many other Korean cops: Anabelle Castro, a native of Pangasinan, became the second naturalized Korean ...more »

Korean Police Spend 1/3 Their Time Handling Drunks

» by GI Korea September 21st, 2009 at 5:39 am » Comments (9)

And the other 2/3 of their time is probably spent sleeping in their cars: ;-) It was 6 p.m., a pleasant time for school children to hang out with friends in ...more »

Korea Teachers & Education Workers Union Complains About Police Handing Out Anti-North Korean Comic Books

» by GI Korea August 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm » Comments (6)

It is kind of sad that the government has to distribute comic books to teach youngsters that being taken over by Kim Jong-il is not such a good thing: South Korean ...more »

Picture of the Day: Riot Police Training

» by GI Korea May 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Over 600 police officers in Gyeonggi-do spent the 20th practicing how to control protestors attacking them with bamboo sticks and spears."][/caption] Via Korea Beat. more »

Picture of the Day: Ulsan’s Bicycle Police

» by GI Korea May 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="attachment_13590" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A newly organized 11-member police bicycle squad carries out its first patrol in the city of Ulsan after its inauguration on Thursday. The squad is the ...more »