MOJ Takes Measures to Strengthen Law and Order
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To demonstrate its determination to strengthen law and order, the Executive Yuan called county magistrates and city mayors across the nation into a coordination conference on the morning of April 23, 2006. At the meeting, leaders of central government agencies and local governments exchanged views and offered a number of proposals on the improvement of law and order in society. Premier Su Tseng-chang drew several conclusions. As the Ministry of Justice is the main government agency responsible for law and order of the nation, Minister Shih Mou-lin issued a raft of instructions to crack down on criminal cases that jeopardize people’s livelihood.
1. The Ministry of Justice will take concerted actions with county and city governments to bash and pursue the crimes.
2. The head prosecutors in the various district prosecutors’ offices are requested to take part in the law-and-order meetings held in their localities and, if necessary, the MOJ will send its officials to attend such meetings.
3. When a city/county government and the police crack down on the law-breaking “eight categories of sleazy businesses,” if need be, a head prosecutor will be sent to the scene to take command of the operation.
4. The regulations governing the cutoff of water and power supply to law-breaking sleazy businesses and dismantlement of their facilities will be streamlined for use by county/city governments in their actions.
5. The water and power cutoff and facility dismantlement measures may be accompanied by checks on firefighting equipment and tax evasion.
6. As these eight categories of sleazy businesses have breached the law and regulations repeatedly, prosecutors are instructed to take up proactive command to look into the sources of the crime and ferret out the masterminds. If necessary, they will target the landlords who have leased their facilities to the illegal businesses and consider them as accomplices.
7. With regard to the law-and-order problem caused by drug users, the MOJ has decided to reassess the effectiveness and the length of compulsory rehabilitation. At the same time, it will request the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan to introduce detoxing resources in order to strengthen the rehabilitation work. Still, the MOJ will ask county and city governments to set up anti-drug small groups to coordinate with the central government’s effort aimed at curbing the rampage of drug by orchestrating social resources and establishing halfway houses.
8. The MOJ has communicated with the Ministry of Education on the subject of juvenile drug abuse and asked the MOE to instruct the schools at various levels to examine the urine samples of suspect students each week in order to deter their use of drugs. To prevent students falling into the abyss of drug, the MOJ and MOE will step up anti-drug publicity during summer vacations and launch vigorous sweeps against drugs.
9. With regard to the stipulation that a business offering electronic games shall not be established within 50 meters of a primary and middle school or a hospital, the MOJ interprets it as such businesses shall be located at least 50 meters away from a school or a hospital. As county and city governments are self-governance organizations, they are entitled to prescribe their own regulations according to their specific needs so long as these regulations do not contradict the central government’s laws and can live up to the principle of proportion.
The quality of law and order in society is crucial to the rights and interests of the citizenry. As the prosecutors are in charge of bashing crime, they should grasp the crime-bashing work and actively command the police to investigate and pursue the crimes for the sake of social security.