ABSTRACT
Administratively, the KNPA is an apex bureaucracy that oversees 16 regional police agencies (state police). ere are a total of 248 police departments and 1,940 police substations (beats or Koban) spread throughout the entire country. Each state or regional police agency supervises anywhere from three to 41 police departments. e three levels of Korean police hierarchy (i.e., police headquarters, state police agency, local police department) enable the chief of Korean police to have an inuence on all police ocers (101,108 sworn ocers, with 6.8% of them women).
