Key Activities and the amount of media coverage of the incident. However, public interest is not in the personal information of a migrant worker, but rather the cause of a fire that started at a key national facility. And even if the public had an interest in the personal information, an investigative agency should refrain from disclosing that information based on the presumption of innocence and proportionality. The police station and the local police agency both accepted the recommendations. Police use of electric stun guns and human rights violation The Commission viewed that police use of a stun gun on a union member who had crawled under a delivery vehicle to protest violated the Guidelines on Use of Electric Stun Guns and was an infringement upon the union member’s freedom of action. The guidelines provide for the use of stun guns only when harm is imminent or when there is strong resistance. On April 30, it recommended the chief of the police station in question to educate the staff on the use of electric stun guns, and the chief of the National Police Agency to codify the mandatory use of verbal control prior to using stun guns. The Commission concluded that the likelihood of an accident does not, by itself, justify use of stun guns, and that there must be a proven specific need to do so. Video recordings showed that there was no concern for an accident, and that the petitioner was simply under the vehicle to protest, rather than to cause harm. The Commission saw no risk that justified the use of an electric stun gun. The petitioner was handcuffed only 24 seconds after crawling under the vehicle, and the electric shock was administered one minute and 15 seconds afterwards. During this time, the police neither tried to persuade him to come out nor warned him of a stun gun, meaning that no necessary actions were taken prior. In addition, the police first used the stun gun to drag the petitioner out from under the car, and six seconds later, used it again. Even though there was resistance from the petitioner, there were several police officers on the site, making the use of the stun gun even less justifiable. Meanwhile, the procedures manual of the National Police Agency provides for instances where electric stun guns can be used, but fails to provide specific details for different levels of resistance. The Commission ordered further clarification on the usage of electric stun guns for different levels of resistance, and the mandatory use of verbal warnings, dialogue, and persuasion prior to stun gun use. 78

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