Looking at the characteristics of civil-police cooperation in Eurasia in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, where civil-police cooperation is important in police activities, Germany is pursuing efficient crime prevention through community polic...
Looking at the characteristics of civil-police cooperation in Eurasia in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, where civil-police cooperation is important in police activities, Germany is pursuing efficient crime prevention through community police activities in cooperation with the government, the civil-police, and the police in each land. In France, ‘daily safety police’ (PSQ) is intensively deployed in security-vulnerable areas to form relationships with residents, and crime prevention activities are carried out based on the spirit of close police suitable for local conditions, such as information exchange with the government, local governments, and security-related organizations. In the United States, the security and private investigation industries are active, so investigative cooperation and security systems that actively use these private companies for police work are institutionalized to reduce police duties and perform efficient crime prevention according to the vigilante tradition. Russia is carrying out comprehensive private cooperation activities in which the vigilante group, called the "Voluntary People's Association," not only assists in police activities of state agencies and legal protection agencies with its own rules in each region, but also actively cooperates in securing the safety of residents and maintaining public security in emergencies such as earthquakes, disasters, and the outbreak of infectious diseases. Japan is also realizing public-private cooperative governance by enacted local ordinances in which businesses such as private security work together with residents to provide a wide range of life safety volunteers from earthquakes, volcanoes, and typhoons as well as anti-crime activities. As such, private cooperation in Eurasian countries is not just crime prevention, but comprehensive life safety activities that cooperate with safety and disasters, and police work is comprehensively dealt with not only police agencies but also government-related agencies and partners.
This paper reviewed Korea's civil-police cooperation status by referring to the characteristics of Eurasia's civil-police cooperation system and suggested improvement measures along with problems. It is hoped that this study will be a directional key in establishing an advanced civil-police cooperation system in Korea in the future.