Yeh Kun-fu said his office will review the order given by the inspection department of the city police bureau to check the phone records of several journalists who broke news about sex offenses under police investigation.

Yeh said he understood that the recourse taken by police to track down the alleged police sources of these journalists was not appropriate and might have impeded journalists right to cover police stories.

He made the remarks after Friday’s China Times quoted unanimous police officers as saying the inspection department was engaged in a witch hunter.

The paper said the police authorities have come under pressure to track down journalists’ informants among the police ranks and files after social activist groups complaining that the press coverage of these offenses have encroached on the rights of the minorities involved in these cases.

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