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Gyeongnam police chief appointed acting commissioner of Korean National Police Agency

Summary by The Korea Times
The chief of the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency was appointed deputy commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA), police said Tuesday, effectively making him acting head of the national police force amid a prolonged vacancy in the top post. Kim Jong-chul was named to replace Yoo Jae-seong, who has served as acting KNPA commissioner for more than 20 months. The KNPA said it applied a regional avoidance principle in the re…

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The government has carried out a reshuffle of Senior Superintendents and Superintendents, replacing 14 out of the 18 city and provincial police chiefs. With the complete replacement of the police leadership, including Acting Commissioner General Yoo Jae-sung, there are predictions that the selection process for the first Commissioner General of the Lee Jae-myung administration, a position that has been vacant for one year and eight months, will …

The National Police Agency carried out personnel appointments for senior officials, including Senior Superintendents and Superintendents, on the 1st. Kim Jong-cheol, Chief of the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency, who was promoted to Senior Superintendent on the 12th of last month, was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner General. Deputy Commissioner General Kim will serve as the Acting Commissioner General until a new Commissioner General is d…

Late on the night of the 1st, the government abruptly carried out a reshuffle of senior superintendents and police commissioners for the second half of the year, including the appointment of Gyeongnam Police Chief Kim Jong-cheol as Deputy Commissioner of the National Police Agency and Jeonnam Police Chief Ko Beom-seok as the Seoul Metropolitan Police Commissioner. The police announced that they fully applied the "hometown assignment system" in t…

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조선일보 broke the news on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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