소방기관의 효율화를 위한 조직체계 개선 검토

Abstract The role of firefighting is expanding in response to ongoing disasters. Modern society, plagued by unpredictable fires and disasters, requires a proactive and efficient response system. Fire departments are the institutions responsible for ensuring the public's right to safety in the event of fires and disasters. To ensure this, fire departments must be efficiently organized. The current Fire Service Act provides for firefighting organizations, but rather than specifying specific details in law, the authority is delegated through presidential decree. It is questionable whether the status of fire departments under this delegated legislation aligns with the principle of legality in administrative organizations. The principle of legality in administrative organizations stipulates that legal provisions should be established to ensure the stability, sustainability, and accountability of administrative organizations. Fire departments have a role and status as police administrative agencies responsible for maintaining public safety and order. To fulfill this role, the National Fire Agency, city and provincial fire departments, and fire stations are established and operated. However, the law does not provide a specific basis for the establishment of fire departments, but rather only provides for the Commissioner of the National Fire Agency, the chiefs of city and provincial fire departments, and the chiefs of fire stations. Furthermore, the chiefs of city and provincial fire departments are subordinate to the mayor or provincial governor and thus have a subsidiary status, hindering accountability. Thus, organizational efficiency is essential to ensure the professionalism and accountability of fire departments and secure the public's right to safety. This efficiency can be achieved through the principle of legality in administrative organization. Therefore, to improve the organizational structure of fire departments, the principle of legality must be achieved. The legal basis for the organizational structure of fire departments must be established in law to achieve the rule of law. Therefore, this study analyzed the organizational structure of fire departments from the perspective of legality in administrative organization and proposed improvement measures to enhance the efficiency of fire departments.