By Lo Tien-bin / Staff reporterThe Presidential Office Building has purchased new security equipment for its guards and is expected to make minor modifications to the nearly 100-year-old building. The attack followed a 2014 incident, when a man drove a truck through a bullet-proof screen and into the main gate of the Presidential Office Building, saying he was protesting a judicial hearing involving his ex-wife. Meanwhile, the Presidential Office on Feb. 22 submitted to the Legislative Yuan a security review report, as requested by lawmakers when they approved the office’s budget proposal for this fiscal year on Jan. 30. The office has stepped up security and last year adjusted its security arrangements to install a so-called “landscape fence” around the building, the report said. It is often used around large-scale public infrastructure and sports arenas,” a Presidential Office official said, adding that the fence would only be installed around areas of the Presidential Office Building that require bolstered security.

Source: Taipei Times March 10, 2018 15:56 UTC