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Study on Activation of Crime Victim Policy by the Police

Police is the primary state agency to intervene in crisis situations caused by crime. In other words, the police are in a differentiated position for overcoming a crisis and recovery of damage caused by the crime, thus have had a unique significance which should establish and promote effective policies to protect and support victims. Police accordingly established the “Victim Protection Division” a unit to take charge of victim protection and assistance in January 2015, and began to build a foundation for a victim protection activities by specifying the victim's dedicated police officers. Despite the building dedicated to the victims systems, there is limitation due to the promotion of individual victims policies of each function, the lack of expertise and funding, inadequacy of support systems based on laws and integrated support system, the lack of site response capabilities are caused by awareness of police officers and insufficient training in the professional victim policy. With this reason, this author understand the current situation mainly with the system being conducted by major division of the police, and suggest the activation plan of the police crime victim policy in practical point of view such as the functional intension of the victim protection division, the enhancement of the police officer's expertise, the development of its own victim policy, the establishment of budget and legal footing, the strengthening of training.