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affected police officer becomes the main actor in arresting the flagrant offender and
conducting the early investigation while his/her peer officers become the witnesses;
and iii) the case of police contempt, transferred to the prosecution, is often closed
(with a monetary penalty) based on the investigation report of the police officer,
thereby the offender has to go through accusation and court proceedings with few
means to defend himself/herself when a police officer deliberately, or mistakenly,
arrests someone on a charge of police contempt.
Moreover, a crime of contempt, which is an offense subject to complaint, is generally
processed by a paper investigation after a complaint has been submitted. However,
in the case of police contempt, the police arrests and investigates the person as a
flagrant offender prior to filing a complaint, thereby infringing the rights of the
offender.
In this regard, the Commission recommended the Chief of the National Police Agency
to establish improvement measures to prevent the violation of due process and human
rights in regards to the arrest of flagrant offenders of police contempt on October
30, 2014, and the Chief of the National Police Agency accepted said recommendation.
H. Recommendation on the Improvement of the Job Security of
and the Treatment for Non-Regular Workers in the Public Sector
Since 2004, the government has established improvement measures several times
to ensure the job security, and improve the treatment of non-regular workers in
the public sector, resulting in certain achievements. However, the Commission believes
further improvements are still necessary.
In this regard, on November 10, 2014, it recommended the Minister of Employment
and Labor and the Minister of Education to ease the requirements for permanent
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