Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0

Municipal police force in South Korea

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is the primary police force for the South Korean capital city of Seoul. The agency is not an independent police force, but is one of eighteen provincial sub-divisions of the National Police Agency. The SMPA is headquartered along with the National Police Headquarters in Seoul. 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.

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