▲ Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok
Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok held a "meeting on the eradication of drug crimes" at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office today (8th) and said, "I ask all members of the prosecutor's office, led by the Special Investigation Division on Drug Crimes, to work together to clean up drugs."
The Supreme Prosecutor's Office today summoned the chief prosecutors of the drug crime department of 18 district prosecutors' offices nationwide and the heads of the Narcotics Investigation Division to hold a "meeting on measures to eradicate drug crimes."
At today's meeting, President Lee asked, "Please consider the will of Chungmugong, who said, 'If one person guards the road, he can frighten a thousand people.'"
"If we don't respond to the surge in drug crime now, we will face a situation that cannot be reversed," Lee said, adding, "We must deal strictly with drug crimes with the determination that 'there is no next time, this is the last chance.'"
Prosecutors estimate that the current rate of drug crime is 29 times.
The black yield rate is the ratio of the number of undisclosed crimes to the number of revealed crimes, and considering that there were 2022,1 drug offenders in 8, the total number of drug offenders is estimated to be about 395,52.
That's an estimated 100 in 1 people in the country being a drug offender.
Prosecutors established the Supreme Prosecutor's Narcotics Division in 1989 to crack down on crime, but the scope of the prosecution's investigation has been reduced due to adjustments to investigative powers in 2021.
However, in the wake of drug crimes against unspecified youths, such as the recent "Gangnam Gakuen Street Drug and Drink Incident," the prosecutor's office decided to separate the existing Anti-Corruption and Strong Division into the Anti-Corruption Department and the Narcotics and Organized Crime Division and restore the Narcotics Division in order to strengthen its ability to deal with drugs.
Prosecutors plan to apply aggravated penalties to drug crimes and actively help addicts treat and rehabilitate through probation and therapeutic supervision.
Drug prosecutors have also proposed a plan to directly participate in crime prevention education for juveniles to educate them about the dangers of drugs.