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Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency
37°34′29″N 126°58′20″E / 37.574651°N 126.972209°E
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA; Korean: 서울특별시경찰청; Hanja: 서울特別市警察廳) is the primary police force for the South Korean capital city of Seoul. The agency is not an independent police force in of itself, but is one of 16 provincial sub-divisions of the National Police Agency. The SMPA is headquartered along with the National Police Headquarters in Seoul itself.[1] While modern police agencies of Seoul can trace their history back to 1945 with the creation of a Korean police force, the modern-day Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul came into being on August 1, 1991 and currently polices over 10 million inhabitants.[2]
- ^ World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems: South Korea retrieved August 4, 2007
- ^ SMPA History retrieved August 4, 2007
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