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The general conditions of Korea’s security is assessed to be quite good in comparison with any other developed countries. Korea has an outstanding security system based on the powerful national police, however many problems are pointed out in the life-based security service for people due to its manpower shortage and work overload. As a result, the introduction of municipal police system is becoming main issue. The discussion on the system has been consistently suggested while a highly centralized system of national police has been operated since 1948 when it was founded in. Nevertheless, the full-scale introduction of municipal police system is still waived due to concerns about the problems with that. Previous studies on the municipal police system are mainly the ones about its introduction, whereas studies on the reconsideration measures of it or ones on the opposite side of it do not exist. Therefore, this study looks over the meaning of police and the major issues in the municipal police system through common opinions of it. Next, this attempt to seek the reconsideration measures of introduction of municipal police system based on the case of Jeju which the system is being tested now.