In order to enhance the legal literacy and professional knowledge of administrative
enforcement officers, the Administrative Enforcement Agency of the Ministry of Justice
held the “Administrative Enforcement Officer Training”, “Seminar on Practical Issues of
Legal and Statement Objections”, “Administrative Enforcement Case Study Seminar”, and
“Regulations and Case Advocacy for Public Officials’ Property Declaration and Avoidance
of Conflict of Interest” at the Boai Lecture Hall of the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office on
October 16 this year (2024). The course themes included “Media Response Methods”,
“Entrustment Price Adjustment”, “Humanitarian Care Case Sharing”, and “Regulations
and Case Advocacy for Public Officials’ Property Declaration and Avoidance of Conflict
of Interest”. The contents were rich and substantial, and the participants gained plenty
from the seminar.
In addition to inviting Ying-Hsiu Liu, Director of Department of Legal Affairs to the
seminar to provide guidance, Mou-Hsin, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Justice was
invited to present the “Specific Special Excellent Deeds” award to the four outstanding
administrative enforcement officers. In his speech, Deputy Minister Huang praised the
Administrative Enforcement Agency as a dynamic team that has repeatedly achieved
outstanding results, which can be represented by four sentences: “outstanding
performance”, “administrative cooperation”, “humanitarian care”, and “achieving justice”.
1. Outstanding performance: Since its establishment 24 years ago, the Administrative
Enforcement Agency has levied over NT$664.8 billion in revenue, and its outstanding
performance deserves recognition. 2. Administrative cooperation: The Agency actively
cooperates internally to handle cases entrusted by the procuratorial agencies for execution,
implements the system of returning criminal proceeds and ensures the rights and interests
of victims, and externally strives to establish cross-domain horizontal communication and
cooperation with other agencies, establishes strong and effective partnership relationships,
and effectively solves practical problems encountered during the execution process. 3.
Humanitarian care: The Agency actively and proactively cares for disadvantaged
individuals based on the core values of justice and care who are facing difficulties in their
lives or economic problems. 4. Achieving justice: For malicious tax debtors, the Agency
makes good use of strong enforcement measures such as detention and collection and
demonstrates the government’s firm attitude and determination to enforce the law, and
achieves social fairness and justice.
In the morning session of this seminar, Yan-Ru Chou, Commissioner of the Department
of Planning of the Ministry of Justice, was invited to the “Media Response Methods”
course to share her experience as a news PR team member on major news events through
practical cases. She taught how to communicate with news media and handle crises in
order to respond to public opinion in a timely manner, convey correct information, reverse
external misunderstandings, make good use of media influence, and establish a positive
image for the organization.
In the “Entrustment Price Adjustment” course in the afternoon session, colleagues from
branches of the Agency shared their successful experience of appraising the prices of gold,
art work, and stock funds in the “Red Rich Sea money grabbing case”. Despite limited
manpower and resources, they actively marketed through media and online promotion, as
well as organizing appreciation events, and successfully assisted the prosecution in
recovering illegal gains In the “Sharing of Humanitarian Care Cases” course, the
colleagues shared enforcement measures such as installment payments for disadvantaged
individuals, as well as utilizing other agencies and social resources to assist the public in
overcoming difficulties through public and private partnerships. In addition, Secretary
Rui-Lin Hsu and Commissioner Chao-Hsiang Wang of the Control Yuan were invited to
the “Regulations and Case Advocacy for Public Officials’ Property Declaration and
Avoidance of Conflict of Interest” to give lectures on the regulations and practical cases of
property declaration and avoidance of conflict of interest for public officials respectively,
in order to prevent confusion caused by the colleagues’ unfamiliarity with relevant
regulations.
The seminar was successfully completed, and Director General Chuo-Ran Miao
expressed his special thanks to the course lectures for providing valuable feedback, and
presented thank-you certificates and souvenirs to them to show his gratitude. He also
urged the colleagues to strengthen their professional knowledge, enhance their execution
performance, demonstrate the Agency’s execution ability, handle news and cases with
caution, strengthen crisis management capabilities, maintain a positive image of the
Agency, and empathize with disadvantaged individuals. In addition to temporarily
granting lenient execution, the colleagues shall handle charitable donations, care visits,
referrals to employment service centers for employment counseling, and report to relevant
authorities for assistance, in order to demonstrate the soft power of flexible law
enforcement and implement the core values of “justice” and “care” of the enforcement
agency. At the same time, the colleagues were asked to fully implement the relevant
policies of the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Justice. Recently, the Executive Yuan
has planned the “Joint Auction and Anti-Fraud Advocacy Project for Five-Strike and
Seven-Safety Cases”, and it is scheduled to handle the joint auction of all branch offices’
acceptance of the request of procuratorial agencies for price appraisal on November 11,
2023 to fully leverage the cooperation and synergy between the prosecution and
administrative enforcement agencies, and actively demonstrate the government’s firm
commitment to law enforcement and comprehensive crackdown on crimes, gold, guns,
drugs, and fraud, in order to ensure public security, food safety, road safety, work safety,
school safety, residential safety, and information safety to safeguard a safe and just society.