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NATIONAL SECURITY MECHANISM TO BE OVERHAULED BY YEAR-END: DPP LEGISLATOR

Jun 18, 2002 18:52 UTC+0800

Taipei, June 18 (CNA) The national security mechanism will undergo a major overhaul by the end of the year, a legislator of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party said Tuesday.

Trong Chai said that the intelligence top brass has revealed to him that the security system will be overhauled in line with a government restructuring plan.

According to Chai, the proposed overhaul will include the upgrading of the National Security Bureau to the level of a ministry, together with the establishment of a national security administration that would take charge of domestic, foreign and mainland China intelligence work.

However, he also said that the reforms are still only in the planning stages and that no substantial conclusions have yet been reached.

He said that national security leaders have confirmed to him that integration and reforms of the country's intelligence agencies are inevitable and that the government hopes to win support from the legislature to "establish a loyal and efficient" national intelligence and security system.

He said that after the recent scandal involving Liu Kuan-chun, a chief accountant in the NSB who went into hiding in September 2000 after allegedly embezzling more than NT$192 million (US$5.63 million), President Chen Shui-bian decided to reform the intelligence and security mechanisms.

Chai said that he has suggested revising the organization of the NSB, the Armed Forces Police Command, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the National Police Administration and the National Fire and Coast Guard Administrations.

(By Lilian Wu)