Caught: Police Officer Involved in Drunk Driving Accident During Eulji Exercise Emergency Duty

Blood Alcohol Level Exceeded License Revocation Limit
Caught After Drunk Driving Report Following the Accident

During the period of emergency duty declared throughout the police force as part of the Eulji exercises, an active-duty police officer was apprehended by the police after causing an accident while driving under the influence.

View of Gwangsan Police Station, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do.

On August 19, Gwangsan Police Station in Gwangju announced that it had booked, without detention, a sergeant in his 30s from Gwangju Seobu Police Station on charges of violating the Road Traffic Act (drunk driving) and is currently investigating him.

The sergeant, referred to as A, is suspected of driving his own car under the influence of alcohol around 3 a.m. that day on a road in Singa-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do.

At the time, A was driving alone and was swerving between lanes in an unstable manner when he crashed into a curb separating the road from the sidewalk.

Another driver who witnessed the incident suspected drunk driving and reported it to the police, leading to A's apprehension. A's blood alcohol concentration, as measured by police, was found to exceed the legal threshold for license revocation.

In connection with the Eulji training, which continues until August 21, the National Police Agency had issued a general alert to police stations nationwide and was maintaining an emergency response posture.

Previously, on August 4, a senior officer from another police station in Gwangju was suspended from duty and is under investigation after fleeing the scene of an accident and attempting to identify his wife as the driver before eventually turning himself in.

The police are investigating A to determine the exact circumstances of his drinking and his movements before the incident.

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