A Study on the Strategy of Police Organizational Reform of the Republic of China from the Perspective of National Security Viewpoint---an enlightenment from the establishment of the US Department of Homeland Security
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Shih-LinlLiu
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
National security is a conceptual term and has limits on its time perspective. Its relative definition and connotation stem from the impacts of the development of international relations and advance of technological civilization. Ever since the beginning of the Cold War and the post-Cold War periods, up to the outbreak of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, it is evident that the concept of national security has different meaning in each phases of modern history. It has been conventional practice to rely on the military, diplomacy and intelligence for protecting national security. However, when the United States started to strengthen “Homeland Defense” and establish a new “Department of Homeland Security” in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack, major countries of the world all responded with different levels of organizational reform or even government reconstructions.
As to the Republic of China, it still has not been able to adjust its conventional, or inertial, way of thinking with respect to safeguarding national security. In terms of organizational structure, it remains counting on military/defense and intelligence establishments for its national security, downplaying the changing role of the social order & public security apparatuses and its strategic implications, especially undervaluing or ignoring the leading role of the police organization.
While the progresses in information technology, internet networking, transportation & communication have contributed to the course of globalization, they also have brought in various kinds of transnational crime and security threats as well, including terrorism, trafficking in persons, drug and arms trafficking, and conducting illicit activities under cover of legitimate businesses. It is imperative to point out that non-traditional security threats using chemical, biological, nuclear and radioactive material as means of attack have gravely affected the social order and public safety and security.
Hence, from the perspective of development of national security, enhancing or upgrading the public order-maintaining establishment to the level of homeland security organization has been viewed as an inevitable trend. In another word, designating the police as the principle force of homeland security task and integrating other major elements of maritime law enforcement, border security, immigration control, security intelligence, disaster rescue and emergence response into the cabinet-level homeland security agency is a necessary response to the challenge of the real world. To sum up, taking the thinking behind and experience of putting together the new Department of Homeland Security as a reference, the establishment of Taiwan’s version of Homeland Security organization is a strategic choice of building its own Homeland Security system.
The author has tried to use the concept of Steiner’s SWOT model to be the core idea and framework of this thesis. In addition, the concept of Porter’s Generic Value Chain was also adopted to analyze the process of “Homeland Security Chain” in which all elements compete for advantages. It is this paper’s another endeavor to try to resolve the difference between the public/government and private/enterprise sectors and their respective logics in managing businesses.
Subjects
擾亂定律
善後管理
第一線反應者
民生基礎設施
Homeland Security Chain
Law of Disruption
consequence management
Type
other
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