"Buy Lotto and Tobacco"... Police Officer 'Enemy Law' With Salary Cut

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The police officer who ordered the employee below to buy lottery tickets or cigarettes has been given a pay cut.

The disciplined police filed a lawsuit calling it an unfair move, but it was not accepted.

Reporter Kwon Junsu reports.

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A police officer from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received a two-month salary reduction in December last year for violating his duty of integrity.

serving as frontline police team leader,
This is because it was investigated that employees under
repeatedly ran errands, such as stopping by convenience stores with many first-place winners and asking them to buy lotto or cigarettes.The employee in charge of the errand at

said, "The convenience store is so popular that you have to wait in line for more than 30 minutes, and you can't park your car because it's a habitual parking enforcement section," but it was useless.

When the employee below applies for leave, he refuses approval because he/she did not report in advance,
When the complaint
was reported to the upper level, it was found that there was no secret from the police organization and threatened, saying, "I will find it to the end and leave it alone."

Mr. A filed a lawsuit saying it was not true, but it was not accepted.

The disciplinary action is appropriate because the instructions given by A to the employee below are beyond the scope of his job and he abused his superior position to do things that are not obligatory.

He added that workplace bullying, so-called "gapjil" behavior, would have caused constant and long-term mental distress to employees affected by the work period.

Mr. A said, "Throughout the trial, the following employees only voluntarily and favorably ran errands,
He claimed that he did not unreasonably restrict the use of
annual leave, but in the end, he was punished.

I'm YTN Kwon Junsu.

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