A hearth chief and others who used public autos for private functions, resembling visiting a golf course, have been caught in Seoul metropolis management.
Following an audit on the Fireplace and Catastrophe Headquarters, the Seoul Metropolis Audit Committee found such violations and urged warning and correction.
On account of the audit committee’s investigation, it emerged {that a} fireplace chief within the Seoul space visited a golf driving vary within the so-called “Automobile No. 1”, a public automobile, through the particular vigil interval through the Chuseok vacation in September final yr.
Chief Lee is thought to have submitted a written assertion saying he stopped at a golf driving vary with free parking as a result of he had one thing to provide to an acquaintance on his method residence from work. Nonetheless, the driving vary is just not on the path to which the work supervisor arrives, and even when it have been, it’s prohibited to make use of a public automobile for private functions after work. The audit committee’s judgment is that this can be a violation of administration guidelines.
The fireplace chief of one other autonomous district was additionally discovered to have visited a funeral in a neighborhood space, a 7-hour spherical journey, by public automobile on a weekend in March final yr.
This audit additionally revealed that firefighters served because the chief’s commuter drivers.
Of the 15,000 cases during which fireplace chiefs traveled to work in shared autos over the previous 5 years, firefighters served as designated drivers in 76 p.c of circumstances.
The audit committee requested that the hearth chief conduct thorough coaching and work processes and warn associated personnel to not use public autos for private functions after work or on weekends.
Moreover, we known as for enhancements to appropriate the apply of falsely submitting automobile operation data and to forestall subject dispatch personnel or on-duty personnel from driving automobile No. 1 when the hearth chief goes to and from work.
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