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Greater China seminar on crime prevention held

A seminar on criminology and crime prevention was held in Taipei yesterday with experts and academics from China, Hong Kong, Macau attending.

The seminar was co-sponsored by the National Police Administration under the Ministry of the Interior and a foundation in memory of law professor Han Chung-mo (韓忠謨).

The Criminal Investigation Bureau highlighted the fact that trade and contacts between the four points in Greater China have increased markedly over the years, resulting in an upswing in crime in various places.

With criminal activities going international and technology becoming ever more sophisticated, the original measures to deal with criminal activities have not kept up with the times and are insufficient to deal with the current situation, a bureau official said.

He noted that criminals have become savvier over the years and are well versed in what laws are applicable to what country and have joined with others to circumvent the law.

Kidnappings, extortion, drug smuggling, economic fraud and human smuggling operations have seriously undermined social order and endangered the safety of the lives and property of the peoples on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the official said.

He also said that although both sides of the Strait signed the Kinmen Agreement in 1990 detailing how and what could be done to crack down on criminal activities and illegal immigration, communications can only be exchanged between the Red Cross societies on either sides, the Straits Exchange Foundation and its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait.

This intermediary set-up is not effective enough to stop all illegal cross-strait activities, he said.
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