현행 자치경찰제의 공법적 고찰 - 행정조직법적 분석평가를 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study is to assess the current autonomous police system from the viewpoint of public law and to search for its developmental tasks. For this purpose, this study analyzes the Police Organization Act to regulate the autonomous police system and identifies problems with the current law about the autonomous police. Before discussing the autonomous police system, the study reviewed the premises behind it and arranged them as follows: many different terms should be understood accurately according to context and situations. As a generic term for the laws related to the organization and authority of the police administrative agency, the Police Administrative Organization Act has various spectrums for the scope of its concept. There are four types of policing affairs, and jurisdiction varies according to individual affairs. This study compared and contrasted previous studies in the field of public law, the revision history of the Police Organization Act, major legislative bills for revision, and laws before and after revision to analyze and assess the current autonomous police system. The results show that the system has a huge gap from old discussions in academic circles and the positive law (real system), arguing that there should be additional reviews to carefully alter and accept the old research findings for the current autonomous police system. There should be a focus on the local police committee at the municipal and provincial level as a new representative administrative institution created after the revision of the Police Organization Act. Its functions and roles can be used to assess whether the autonomous police system became real or not. Finally, the study proposes four developmental tasks for the autonomous police system.