Despite the trend and severity of industrial technology outflow crime, little research
has been conducted about the effect of police force on that kind of crime in Korea.
Consequently, this research preliminarily empirically examined relationship between
foreign affairs police forces such as policemen, budget, establishing special investigation
unit and the arrest of industrial technology outflow crime due to the limit of related
data. Research findings can be summarized as follows. A statistically significant positive
relationship was found between foreign police budget and the arrest of crime in the
country. On the contrary, foreign police force is not significantly associated with the
arrest and occurrence of crime overseas. Based on the result, the effect of the police
force such as hardware factors including policemen, budget on the industrial technology
outflow crime seemed to be weak. Consequently, considering police alternatives from
previous researches, several implications such as reinforcement of foreign police force
by increasing personnel and organizational innovation, enriching training program,
strengthening the domestic and foreign cooperative network between police and related
bodies can be suggested. Also, the improvement of the formal statistics on the industrial
technology outflow crime and strenthening public relations can be recommended.