★《 United Daily, 聯合報》, 3-31-2019: Taiwanese police had been short staffed for a long time, but pension reforms (年改) recently led to a over-supply...  the police of grass roots think their tasks and services are unreasonable overloaded， the number of staffs will not be enough no matter how many new bloods are employed.

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★ World Economic Forum (WEF)  <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> released at 9-4-2019 shows Taiwan's "safety & security" got an Eastern Asia-pacific average score 6.0, and is worse than Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Singapore.

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★《 Liberty Times 》(《自由時報》), 6-25-2019:  insulting (by the words "rascal with uniform" or "slave" ), abusing, biting or slapping the face of the policeman by a member of Congress or Council was not charged by the Prosecutor Office, the High Prosecutor Office rejected the appeal and sustained the original conclusions, this case demoralize all the police and cast a chill over the police field.   Legal experts comment that inconsistent standards result in low public-trust and a term "dinosaur judge" ("恐龍法官") all over Taiwan...

★  US  state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019  www.state.gov/reports/2019-trafficking-in-persons-report-2/taiwan/

As reported in the last five years, human traffickers subject foreign men and women to forced labor and sex trafficking in Taiwan, and traffickers subject local men and women to forced labor and local women and children to sex trafficking. Taiwan women and children are subjected to domestic sex trafficking, including as part of an increasing trend in which traffickers induce and take advantage of Taiwan and foreign women’s and children’s drug addictions to subject them to sex trafficking. Taiwan traffickers increasingly use the internet, smartphone apps, livestreaming, and other such online technologies to conduct recruitment activities, often targeting child victims, and to mask their identities from law enforcement.

Traffickers lure women from China and Southeast Asian countries to Taiwan through fraudulent marriages and deceptive employment offers for purposes of sex trafficking. Many trafficking victims are migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and to a lesser extent, individuals from China, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

★ Next Magazine , The Liberty Times, Dec. 31, 2015   "Lots of major crimes escaped easily and happily"

    In the past 8 years, about 100 major crimes like Kaohsiung prosecutor Office's prosecutor 井天博 escaped again and again, Taiwanese people see no presence of justice.   Not only the slang "Money can buy crime's life" deep rooted in Taiwanese mind, but also "Money can make major crimes run away easily".  In recent 4 years, the number of crimes escaped overseas is increased, in total 77 persons, most of them are big financial crimes, e.g.,  Emptied assets, Playing the stock market, Unauthorized Fund-Raising, in other words, most escaped crimes are rich people.  Most wanted crimes are, e.g., Legislators (ps: similar to senator or congressman) 羅福助,何智輝,  President general of Far-Eastern Air 崔湧, Underground finance "godfather" 萬眾, President general of Chinese National Federation of Industries 陳武雄, Kaohsiung prosecutor Office's prosecutor 井天博, etc.

★ The Liberty Times, 2-23-2016,  head-page

National Chung Cheng university's survey found: Less than half (43.9%) Taiwanese people think current social security is fine.

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★ BBC, 5.1.2014

After a series of protests against TW government, Taiwan limits Taiwanese' freedom of speech on the net.   Taiwan policemen are trying to search an internet poster to scare many. (details pls refer to BBC "台灣收緊網路言論自由" full text)

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★  《The China Times》  10.10.2014, editorial : Taiwan's police turn into weak chicken.

 ... Taiwan's police power for national security and social order does not come from policemen's guns, but Taiwanese people's backing-supports ... Today, we are facing and worrying about a phenomenon of weak police, military, government, and even weak political party, the only solution is to rebuild ROC (Republic of China) identity.

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★  《China Times Weekly 時報周刊》  Nov. 6, 2014, No.1915

 Taiwan police status of social structure declines steadily from bad to worse, Taiwan Police University professor Yei (葉毓蘭) expressed it's because Taiwanese people don't respect Taiwan policemen, and policemen have been doing "odd jobs" ( various trivial errands ).

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★  《China Times Weekly 時報周刊》  Sept. 19, 2014, No.1909

 Just like a widely-known saying by Wu B.S. (吳伯雄) that everybody except the police knows illegal casino houses are everywhere in Taiwan, night-club's dark side is the same thing, lots of Taiwanese know the police take protection fee from night club/pub...  It's a distorted Taiwanese night-club culture.
CtiTV (<中天>電視), 9.27.2014 (21:09pm): a reporter (記者羅友志): a police leader of certain precinct, city police department admitted having taken bribery money, and asked him don't tell anybody else.  Another reporter (名嘴江中博) expressed he saw some criminal police took bribery money.

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★  《United Daily News》 Sept. 20, 2014

The dark side of Taiwanese police discipline strongly damages the image of Taiwan's police.
Taipei police station failed to clarify a lot of police discipline matters questioned by the public, resulting in a bad to worse situation that nobody believe the police.  They said Taiwan's police share the night club business for a long time...... 

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★  《Liberty Times》 Aug. 28, 2014 , "Taiwan police special-entrance examination - a weird phenomenon "  (李學鏞)

... Taiwan police special (high-ranking, 特考) examination have blabbed (Police University released the test topics) every year...
ps: Central News Agency (Taiwan) , Aug. 22, 2014: Chairman and a professor of Taiwan Police University were prosecuted for cheating (released the topic of Taiwan Police special examination), the best-known similar legal case of examination cheating was happened in 1998, 70 police officials were fired.

ps: For accurate translation pls. refer to Chinese version

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★  <Apple Daily News>  (《蘋果日報》)  editorial,  1.11.2014

  ... A <Enemy of the State> drama currently showing in Taiwan, completely reveals Taiwan's public institutions knowing nothing about Taiwanese privacy protection and the spirits of the law...  Now days our national machine can easily collect/gather our personal privacy information in the name of national security... quite lots of people said only bad guys scare being monitored, even it's an illegal action  ―  What's the problem of Taiwanese legal education ?  (正在上演的《全民公敵》戲碼，完全顯露國家公務機關對於隱私保護與法治精神毫無認識。...在科技日新月異下，國家機器以國家安全及治安維護之名，早就可以輕易地蒐羅我們的個資隱私；...一件違法的行為，居然還有人說做壞事的人才會怕監控。台灣的法治教育到底出了什麼問題？ )
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★ <The Liberty Times>, Taiwan, 1.13.2014   林鈺雄 Dr. Lin, NTU professor
Taiwan turns to a "privacy hell" because prosecutors and police abuse the right/power of retrieval of Taiwanese communication records... Taiwan's police access the most number of Taiwanese communication records (nearly 80% occupied)... Taiwan's total number of retrieval equals more than 200 times the number of records-retrieval in Germany ...  Taiwan's prosecutors (or police , investigation units) by themselves approve and issue approval of application for retrieval of communication records, without Taiwan judges' objective approval......   Taiwan's prosecutors and police want it quick and energy-saving, judges want to get rid of burden, so, Taiwan's constitution and Taiwanese human rights are not their (police, prosecutors, etc) concerns eventually?......

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★  <Apple Daily News> 1.14.2014
 Taiwan's Court hard to control abusing of power by prosecutors & police (「法院難管檢警濫權」author:  錢建榮, Taiwan's court judge)
Taiwan's prosecutors and police do wiretapping by using serious crime felony to cover up misdemeanors(重罪掩飾輕罪監聽), Taiwan's judges don't question their evidences/proofs...... the biggest problem is we don't have full-duty prosecutor's order court ( 專責的「強制處分專庭」), judges take turns to do the job, and don't care too much about those application for prosecutor's order... Taiwan's judiciary practice makes no difference between "judge for investigation" and "judge for judgment"... so Taiwan's Judiciary Yuan fails to reach the basic : to evade/side step the issue of dividing applications (「分案迴避」), e.g.,   those judges during investigation proceedings approve detention of accused, will they think the accused is innocent during judiciary proceedings? .... Taiwan judges fail to reach the goal of professional quality and neutrality ...！wiretapping harms the most Taiwanese privacy, but till now Taiwan fails to send a formal notice to those people being listened... Taiwanese people won't know being listened until they were prosecuted, as for those people not being indicted, they will never know about this ....  Taiwanese people can not do anything about this nation's most serious - mandatory punishment, no one can help them, they are rejected by Taiwan's judiciary systems...

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★ <Apple Daily News> 1.16.2014 editorial
The legislature yesterday approved revisions to the Communication Security and Surveillance Act (通訊保障及監察法) to toughen the rules governing the use of wiretaps... previously, the prosecutors may keep listening someone even the legal case had already been closed, or the prosecutors may wiretap on a specific person and by the way listen other people in the same case... all these show their (prosecutors, police, investigation units) attitude of abusing power & playing the law.  This amendments immediately led to a rebound (opposition) by Taiwan's prosecutors, police, and investigation units...The Judicial Reform Foundation expressed : Taiwan's judiciary has not made any progress at all unless they avoid wiretapping mistakes by abolishing the watching center or attaching it to or under certain authority remaining neutral, and not allow accessing communication records unless they got the judges' approval...

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★  USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, April 8, 2011

       There were still problems with corruption ( police corruption's limited but still a problem ).
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★  <Transparency International>, Germany,   Dec. 10, 2010

     Taiwan's corruption sorting list:  worst ― Police: 3.9,  Parliament/legislation: 3.8,  Public officials/civil servants :3.8,  Political parties : 3.5,  military: 3.4,  judiciary3.3 ,  Media , Education systems : 3.2

   ps: Taiwan's news media,  <United Daily News>,  <China times> , <Liberty Times> all reported the Police is the worst in corruption.

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★ PTS TV (Public TV service), Taiwan,   2010.6.2   http://talk.news.pts.org.tw/2010/06/blog-post_02.html