A Jeju police officer attended an arrest warrant hearing in Jeju on Tuesday over allegations that he wrongfully closed a missing person case involving Jang Mi-ran. He is charged with dereliction of duty, forgery, falsifying public electronic records and obstruction of official duties through deception. A body presumed to be Jang was found on Jeju Island on Monday. The officer was also found to have prematurely closed another missing person case last month, and that missing man was found dead on Saturday.
A police officer accused of wrongfully closing a missing person case leaves the Jeju District Court after his arrest warrant hearing, Tuesday. Yonhap
JEJU — The Jeju District Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a Jeju police officer accused of wrongfully closing a missing person case that may have led to the woman's death.
The court began the officer's arrest warrant hearing at 2:30 p.m. on charges of dereliction of duty, forgery, falsifying public electronic records and obstruction of official duties through deception.
The officer is accused of allegedly prematurely closing the case of the missing woman, Jang Mi-ran, in May without confirming her safety and deleting her information from the police's missing persons profiling system.
