Taiwan News
Date: 2016-10-23
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
As vegetable prices have been high with no signs of falling, the National Police Agency (NPA) on 
Saturday issued an order to all local police stations in the country requiring assignment of personnel to cooperate with district prosecutor offices and local governments to monitor whether there were practices of price gouging and hoarding of essential commodities in their jurisdiction.
The NPA said police are responsible for helping authorities to investigate and clamp down on practices violating Fair Trade Act.
The NPA said it issued an official letter on Sep. 14 to all police stations to investigate whether price gouging and hoarding of consumer, agriculture and industrial goods had taken place in their jurisdiction and referred offenses to authorities.
As the vegetable prices have remained on the high side in recent months, the NPA on Oct. 21 issued another order to all local police stations to assign personnel to join hands with district prosecutor offices and local authorities for efforts in investigating the aforementioned illegal conducts. [FULL STORY]
