History

    During the Japanese Ruling period, Taitung area was dubbed as Taitung Ting. After the Recovery of Taiwan, Taitung was upgraded as Taitung County. During that time, there was no district court or district prosecutors office in Taitung, and all of the civil and criminal litigations, the non-contentious matters and criminal investigations were conducted under the jurisdiction of Hualien District Court and Hualien District Prosecutors Office. However, Taitung is located at the south-east coast of Taiwan and surround by mountains. The distance between Taitung and Hualien is about......

Primary Goals

The first important job of the prosecutors office is to prosecute crimes and to conduct the execution of criminal judgement, so as to enhance investigation and attack on corruption, to eliminate organized crimes, to conduct investigation on drugs strictly, to prevent against smuggling, to inspect and eliminate burglary, to investigate crimes on damage to ecology of the national land, to investigate election bribery thoroughly, to investigate felony rapidly, to prevent children and juveniles from sexual transaction, to investigate crimes related to intelligent property rights, to crack cases on......

Functions - Duties and responsibilities of prosecutors

Dealing with criminal cases

Investigation: According to Article 228, Criminal Procedure Code, a prosecutor shall investigate immediately when he is aware of law-offending cases through complaint, reporting, surrender of the suspect and other sources. Public prosecution, non-indictment or transfer of the case shall be made after the investigation.
Indictment: A prosecutor shall prepare public indictment against the suspects after investigation and forward the case to the court for trial. Implementation on pleas of the crown: In every case, the prosecutor must participate in cross-examinati......