Taiwan News
Date; 2016-09-21
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Three police officers at the Zhongli Precinct of the Taoyuan Police Department on Wednesday were 
accused of asking for a bribe from a sex service operator after they caught women engaging in prostitution during a crackdown on the sex trade.
The three officers, surnamed Lee, Hung and Lin, tracked down women engaging in prostitution during a crackdown on the sex trade in September. Through the women and an agent surnamed Wang, the officers tracked down the sex service operator, surnamed Lin, from whom the officer allegedly asked for a bribe. Lin reported to authorities that the police officers asked for NT$60,000. The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office has begun to investigate the case.
All the three officers denied any wrongdoing. After law enforcement officers arrested Wang, prosecutors were asking permission to detain the officers for alleged breach of their official duties and violation of bribery of national public officials and for the possibility that they might collude with each other. [FULL STORY]
