Hon Hai Precision Industry founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) on Friday pledged to donate NT$5 million (US$165,464) to each of the families of the two police officers killed on Monday by a prison escapee.
Gou wrote on Facebook that he was deeply saddened by the news of the deaths of officers Tu Ming-cheng and Tsao Jui-chieh (曹瑞傑), so he donated NT$10 million to an account announced by the Tainan City Police Bureau for donations to the officers’ families.
Gou said he hoped his donation would inspire others to give to the bereaved families.
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He also called for the relaxation of rules governing when police officers are allowed to use their weapons, saying that Taiwanese police must often physically stop suspects because they are afraid of the legal liability from using their firearms.
Gou also criticized the Agency of Corrections over what he called “lax management” of minimum security prisons, which had allowed suspect Lin Hsin-wu (林信吾) to temporarily leave Mingde Minimum Security Prison in Tainan for a home visit, from which he did not return.
The former Hon Hai chairman also said the government should enforce death penalties to ensure justice is served.
He wrote that many of the nation’s 38 death row inmates had used a legal amendment to rules governing the enforcement of the death penalty passed in July 2020, which allows them to delay their execution by requesting an interpretation from the Constitutional Court over the proportionality of their sentence.
All of these issues fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior, and Minister of the Interior Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) and Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) should assume responsibility, Gou said.
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