lar household visits and collect trial fees. Police in Taiwan are required to visit all households regularly to check up on any change. That was the duty they have inherited from the police force the Japanese colonial authorities formed at the beginning of the last century.
An amendment to the police service act abolished that petty “census-taking” aimed primarily at crime prevention.
With that duty relieved, the police force will be able to spare 800,000 men/hours a month, that can be devoted to the war on crime.
Another amendment makes it mandatory for litigants to pay trial fees, ranging from NT$1,000 to NT$4,000 per case.
Before the amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, no trial fees were collected.
Such fees will be collected from those who loses the trial.
A defendant losing a criminal case has to pay NT$4,000. A loser in a misdemeanor court trial is required to pay NT$2,000, while a NT$1,000 fee will be collected from one who requests a retrial and loses.
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