Raio Taiwan International
Date: 31 July, 2019
By: John Van Trieste
Video: Railway police accept donation of stun guns
Taiwan’s railway police have accepted a donation of stun guns intended to help ensure officers’ safety on the job. The donation comes following a knife attack on a train that left one railway police officer dead.
On the evening of July 3, an emotionally unstable train passenger fatally stabbed 24-year-old railway police officer Lee Cheng-han. The knife attack left Taiwan shaken and led the government to announce that it would begin arming railway police officers with stun guns.
One private company has stepped in to help, donating 250 stun guns at a ceremony held Tuesday.
At the ceremony, Interior Minister Hsu Kuo-yung said that the stun guns have a range of six meters.
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