Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/04
By Liu Chien-pang, Wang Shu-feng, Wu Hsin-yun and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) The National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday it will improve police training so that they could carry out their duties with greater safety, after a railway police officer was stabbed to death by a passenger on a train in Chiayi the previous day.

Lee Cheng-han (李承翰), a 24-year-old officer from the Chiayi County Police Bureau, was stabbed by a knife-wielding passenger on a northbound train at Chiayi Station at 8:42 p.m. Wednesday.

The deceased police officer Lee Cheng-han / image taken from Lee’s Facebook

Lee was called in and was trying to subdue the passenger, who had pulled a knife when the conductor told him he needed to buy a ticket or get off the train.

The police officer was armed with a handgun and a baton but did not use his firearm against the attacker, probably in consideration of the safety of the other passengers in the cramped train car, the NPA said.    [FULL  STORY]