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CoverStory
ProcessofDealingwithMissingChild
TheProblemsofHandlingtheIncidents
There are 2 main institutions taking charge of missing
When abduction became a hot issue, the police investigation
children: the Police and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
system was mentioned and criticized often. As a result, the
When a child is reported missing, the police document the
police lately amended the law for finding missing children
incident. Then, the police pass the data of the missing child
and established the “Police Agency for Missing Children” to
overtoNationalCenterforMissingChild,adepartmentofthe
cope with the cases of missing children. However, the Police
Ministry of Health and Welfare. They also collect personal
AgencyforMissingChildrenisnotanindependentinstitution,
informationaboutthemissingchildfromotherinstitutionsand
butisanaffiliateoftheDepartmentofWomenandYouth.
build a composite of information from various sources. Next,
TheDepartmentofWomenandYouthtakesresponsibilityof
the police start the investigation into the missing child on the
affairs such as the care of youth, missing child management,
basisoftheoverallinformationtheycollected.Thesedays,the
women’s counseling, sexual violence and domestic violence,
dedicated team of the Police Agency for Missing Children is
prostitution and other miscellaneous tasks related to women
primarygroupinchargeofthereportedincidents.
and children. Finding missing children is merely one of the
The following table indicates the range of missing children
jobsthedepartmenttakes.
accordingtothelaw.
Though each local police station has a specialized team
for missing children’s affairs, the team has to take care of
variousjobsbesidesthemissingchildincidents.LeeYoon-Ho,
Regularmissingchild
Child who got lost and cannot find this
professor at the Department of Police Administration, said,
orherwayhome
“Abductionisadifficultcaseifthedirectionofthesearchisnot
Childbeingfound
Childwhoisbeingsearchedfor
foundintheearlypartoftheinvestigation.However,thepolice
Caredchild
Child who left his or her parent and is
aremakingaspecializedteamandnotdealingwithemploying
being cared for at the police station or
new staff who can independently take care of the job. In this
welfarecenter
way, one who is assigned the task of finding children should
Extendedmissingchild Child who is not discovered within
also take care of his own duty at the same time.” Since the
48 hours after being reported by the
police are expected to be responsible for the heavy burden of
parents
performing various tasks, they cannot concentrate constantly
Childwhoisabandonedonpurposeby
Abandonedchild
andefficientlyoncasesofmissingchildren.Inthissense,such
parentsorguardian
a team cannot be referred to as a dedicated team, and at the
sametime,thenotionofspecialtyalsoseemstocollapse.The
To make the search in more a concrete manner, the
fact is, in Korea, there are not many professional individuals
police operate the Child Safety House and an abduction &
who are suitable for the job of finding missing children. This
disappearancealertsystem.TheChildSafetyHouseisaplace
meansthatresolvingmissingchildrenissuesisdifficultforthe
whoselocationiseasilyapproachedbychildren.Ittakespartin
police due to lack of scientific methodology. Therefore, when
caring for missing children and providing a safe environment
the early part of the investigation fails, the missing child is
forthechildren.Theabduction&disappearancealertsystem,
occasionallyfounddead.
whichiscalledAmberAlertSystemforMissingKids,issuesa
It is difficult for the Abduction & Disappearance alert
warningalertforseriousabductioncasesthroughmediasothat
system to spread warning to many people, since the system is
people can report if they discover the child. The Ministry of
connectedtoonlyparticularchannelsofthemassmedia.
HealthandWelfaretakeschargeofaffairssuchasconstructing
Newspaper and public TV alert only cases of children on
adatabaseofmissingchildren,carryingoutthewelfaresystem
which the police are seriously stuck. The Alert system also
for their family, and educating children to prevent them from
useselectronicdisplay,whichislimitedintransmittingthefull
being kidnapped. The Ministry of Health and Welfare is the
information. Only subway line No.3 has an electronic display
nationalcentertowhichthetaskoffindingmissingchildrenis
capable of showing a photograph and the displays in other
speciallyentrusted.
places have to rely on brief information of a missing child
throughshorttextmessages.Suchcircumstancesmakeitmore
difficultforpeopletobeinformedofmissingchildren.
2010
APRIL

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