Prime Minister focuses on global cooperation with partners in the field of transnational crime

Premier Cho Jung-tai delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the International Forum on Police Cooperation: Combating Transnational Fraud 2024 on September 10 in Taipei City. (Courtesy of Executive Yuan)

Prime Minister Cho Jung-tai expected that joint international cooperation among prosecutors, agents and other personnel from investigation and anti-corruption facilities could effectively tackle transnational crime.

Cho made the remarks while attending the International Forum on Police Cooperation: Combating Transnational Fraud 2024 on Sept. 10 in Taipei City. The three-day event, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior, brought together more than 200 participants from 39 countries, the Executive Yuan reported.

Criminal organizations have become multinational and expanded as members use new technology to violate citizens’ basic rights, Cho said. He added that no country can tackle transnational crime independently and that it has become essential for countries to unite to protect their people.

The forum discussions focused on five main topics: technological law enforcement, legislative change, improving intelligence sharing, public-private sector cooperation, and deepening international cooperation.

On the Taiwanese side, MOFA Minister Lin Chia-lung and MOI Minister Liu Shyh-fang attended the opening. International attendees included Wade Carpenter, President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Executive Board, Gustav Aitaro, Minister of State for the Republic of Palau, and Carlos Humberto Benítez González, Chief of Police of the Paraguayan National Police. (POC-E)