Police, taxi drivers join forces to find missing people
[1] South Korea’s taxi drivers and the police are joining forces to find missing people, the National Police Agency said Thursday. In the event of a missing person’s report, depending on the details and circumstances of the case, the police will first determine whether to dispatch a message to KaKao Mobility, the operator of Korea’s biggest taxi-hailing app Kakao T.
[2] Once the police decide to do so, they will set the scope of the targeted search area and send a description of the missing persons to Kakao Mobility. The app’s operator, upon receiving the message from the police, will then distribute the information to taxi drivers in the targeted region.
[3] In order to encourage taxi drivers to cooperate, the police said it plans to show their gratitude by giving out rewards to drivers if their reports play a crucial role in finding the missing persons. Thursday’s announcement from the police is a nationwide expansion of an existing system which has already been implemented in certain regions, such as in Gyeonggi Province, since 2016.
[4] The number of Kakao T taxi drivers across the country is currently estimated at 230,000, accounting for 85 percent of the total. “We expect that the cooperation with Kakao T taxi drivers will greatly help secure the safety of our citizens,” a National Police Agency official said.
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