Taiwan’s Strategy of Drug Enforcement in the Age of Globalization
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Chen, Da-Wei
Abstract
Globalization is a process of interaction among the people, companies,and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. According to globalization advocates, reducing international regulations on trade and investment will increase trade and development. But these very conditions that promote a globalized environment are favorable for the expansion of drug crime. Drug crime offenders have exploited the enormous decline in regulations, the lessened border controls, and the resultant greater freedom, to expand their activities across borders and to new regions of the world. These contacts have become more frequent, and the speed at which they occur has accelerated. They freely exploit the loopholes of state-based legal system to extend their reach. They travel to regions where they cannot be extradited, base their operations in countries with ineffective or corrupt law enforcement, and launder their money in countries with bank secrecy or few effective controls. By segmenting their operations, crime groups reap the benefits of globalization, while simultaneously reducing their operational risks.
Under such circumstance, the author suggests that the Taiwan authorities work cooperatively with other countries and reduce bureaucratic barriers. By sharing the intelligences and resources of investigation internationally, it is easier to define the organization structure as well as the pattern of crime, and in turn to disrupt the organizations of drug crimes. On the other hand, the authority should establish responsible agency in charge of drug enforcement, create an anti-drug network in order to combine all of the relevant resources, promote the professional skills of the personnel, amend the Witness Protection Act and Money Laundering Control Act in order to enrich the tools of investigation, establish the system of magistrate and undercover investigation in order to strengthen the power of the prosecution and thus the efficiency of the investigation will be improved.
At last but not least, the author calls for a domestic integration of judicial, prosecutorial and investigatory authorities and a closer international cooperation with all the regimes that engage in countering drug crimes, by expanding our global vision and eliminating unnecessary legal or political boundaries, with a view to winning the anti-drug war together with our colleagues in the world.
Subjects
Globalization
Drug Enforcement
Drug Crime
SDGs
Type
thesis
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