(Daily Daegu Gyeongbuk News=Reporter Hwang Ji-hyeon) The Gyeongbuk Police Agency Commissioner (Choi Jong-moon) organized the Highway Patrol, Local Police, Rapid Response Team, Detective Team, and Task Force at highway rest areas and riot police on December 5 in preparation for the cargo union members’ surprise occupation of highways and illegal acts within rest areas. It is deployed 24 hours a day at junctions near TG and IC.
To this end, it plans to operate 9 ‘multipurpose quick maneuver teams’ in the riot police, and said that it will respond quickly by supporting police helicopters from the beginning in case of anticipation of illegal activities such as highway occupation.
At a daily video situation management meeting attended by the head of the provincial police station this morning, the head of the Gyeongbuk Police Agency said, “By occupying the highway or driving at low speed, traffic on the highway is paralyzed, and crimes such as assault and intimidation are committed once morest non-union members or union members who start business at service areas. If this happens, we will take strong action, including the arrest of criminals in the act,” he said.
In addition, “In the case of interfering with the escort of a truck by the police, we will apply the relevant laws such as obstruction of public order to take judicial action on all of them” We plan to track down illegal acts such as aiding and abetting and interfering with government joint investigations and take legal action.”
Meanwhile, the Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency has mobilized 47 police riot police units, 10,958 police officers, 252 patrol cars, and 145 bikes from November 24th to now, and escorted 91 freight vehicles in normal operation, and the cargo solidarity refused to transport the group. We are investigating 11 illegal perpetrators.
