Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien (
Yu called a news conference along with National Police Administration Administrator (NPA) Wang Chin-Wang (
"During this period last year, 132,636 criminal cases were reported. I would not like to see any increase in this number for the coming three months," Yu said, adding that he would honor his promise to resign if the "zero growth" goal is not realized.
To reach this goal, Yu said, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) will adopt several effective measures to fight crime. Those measures include forming a rapid anti-crime force, increasing police patrols, conducting extensive inspections of security measures at financial institutions around the island, and cracking down on major criminal hideouts.
Yu said he has asked the CIB to furnish him with detailed reports on new major criminal cases, the success rate in busting criminal activities and other relevant developments every day before 8:30am.
Yu said he will visit police stations that have achieved laudable crime-solving records to boost the staff morale, while demanding Wang and Cheng step up supervision of police branches that have lagged behind in fighting crime.
To upgrade operational efficiency, Yu said, police stations will cooperate with relevant agencies, state-owned enterprises and private convenience stores in their jurisdictions to step up community patrols and protection of women and school children.
Moreover, Yu said, police will intensify probes into several major criminal cases.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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