Research on Professional Organizational Structure of Traffic Police Department

• Main Authors: Chan Yung Mao, 詹永茂
• Other Authors: 蘇志強
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46x4g6

碩士 === 中央警察大學 === 交通管理研究所 === 89 === Abstract Due to the heavy traffic in cities and the difficulties in the high-speed highways conveyance. Traffic problem has become one of the most important factors that causes people’s daily life pain index to rise. The number of traffic accident yearly deaths is about five times as many as the number of other murder deaths. Thus, in order to solve the ever-increasing traffic problems, organizational reform in traffic police is an both necessary and urgent issue. Professionalism should be taken as a most prior consideration in establishing Traffic Police Department. The Department should not be founded either for accommodating employees resulting from Taiwan Provincial Government downsizing or combining the already existent land-sea-air related traffic organizations. More discussions and researches are needed such as : problems encountered in practical operation under current system, future challenges of traffic enforcement and its professional needs, integration of high speed highways and area traffic net, most traffic policemen are nonprofessional, integration of technology, research, and development in traffic enforcement, privatizing of railway and rail transportation, issues regarding traffic enforcement of BOTHSR( the Build-Operated-Transfer of High Speed Rail), national traffic accidents data filing and analysis, and information system integration . This paper adopts the Literature Survey Method to overview and collect important information and references in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the US, and Hong Kong. These information is then analyzed and compared by using the Comparative Research Method to figure out differences among the traffic organizations and their relevant operations of the above-mentioned nations. It is found that the adjacent developed Asian nations possess a sound and well-organized Traffic Police organization. In Japan and Korea, it is the traffic police organization that is in charge of the 3 E policies (traffic engineering, education, and enforcement), so as to improve traffic efficiency. As for drivers’ managements, the traffic police organization is also in charge of the business ranging from learning to drive, taking driver’s license tests, driver’s licenses management to drivers’ training courses. We can learn much from the traffic criminal justice department in Japan and Korea, the traffic forensic and urban traffic policy departments in Japan, the research and development department in Singapore and Hong Kong for establishing a Traffic Police Department in Taiwan in the future. In this research, we find that Japan Traffic Police in the Police Force consists 15.4% and the Traffic Police only weigh 8.2% in Taiwan Police Force. The percentage of traffic Police in Japan is almost twice as many as the percentage in Taiwan due to the much more complicated business and heavier duties in staff operations and field operations. In addition the reasonable percentage for the Traffic Police in Taiwan Police Force and the in-depth quantity evaluation approach for the establishment of Traffic Police Department could be used as an important direction for the follow-up research in the future.