page_title: National Police Agency (Taiwan)
section_title: Coast Guard
hierarchical_section_title: National Police Agency (Taiwan) / Interdepartmental cooperation / Coast Guard
caption_attribution_description: English: Headquarters of Coast Guard Administration, Executive Yuan. Address: No.296, Xinglong Road Section 3, Wenshan District, Taipei City.中文（台灣）‎: 行政院海岸巡防署本部，地址：臺北市文山區興隆路三段296號。
context_page_description: The National Police Agency, Ministry of the Interior is an agency under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan) which oversees all police forces on a national level. The National Police Agency is headquartered in Taipei City.
context_section_description: The shore lines of Taiwan are under multiple protections from several law enforcement units in Taiwan.
  The history of Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration can be traced back to several origins. One of these is the former 7th Special Police Corps, which was expanded from the late and unique River Patrol squadron of the Taipei County (now New Taipei City) Police Department. The land branches of Coast Guard Administration originate from the controversial Taiwan Garrison Command, which no longer exists, but the formations of land patrol forces were inherited from the ROC Army. Because of its interesting and complicated origins, the Coast Guard Administration does not always go along well with the police, especially when problems related to legal jurisdiction on land occur.
  Smuggling and arms trafficking has been a long been an issue in Taiwan. Human-trafficking and its counterpart, prostitution, are increasingly serious problems in Taiwan. The maritime patrol of the Coast Guard Administration have the responsibility to stop those crimes at sea, and the coastal patrol of Coast Guard Administration are responsible for intercepting such criminal cases along the coast of Taiwan. The in-land territory of Taiwan should be the responsibility of individual local police departments or national law enforcement units from the NPA or MJIB.
  Cases like smuggling and human-trafficking may cause turf wars between competing law enforcement agencies. In some examples, when brothels were raided by plain-clothes peace officers, the pimp would quietly go to the local police station and gather possible information about his girls in detention, but sometimes the pimp would later find that his girls were held up by the local coastal patrol units.
caption: Coast Guard
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