By Chiu Chun-fu and Huang Chien-hua / Staff reportersAhead of marches today for and against Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), National Police Agency (NPA) Director-General Chen Ja-chin (陳家欽) yesterday said that he would personally direct 3,200 police officers to maintain peace and order in Kaohsiung, vowing to arrest instigators of violence. There are to be more services for the day, with train intervals reduced from eight to five minutes, while two police officers are to guard each carriage, they said. Highway and railway police units have been bolstered and put on alert to deal with an expected influx of people from elsewhere in the nation traveling to Kaohsiung for the marches, he said. Police would take strong action and arrest instigators of violence, while public prosecutors would be on standby at the police command center to handle cases immediately, he added. “I strongly disagree with the Kaohsiung City Government approving two large rallies with very different political agendas at the same time,” Cho said.

Source: Taipei Times December 20, 2019 15:56 UTC