警察勤務條例

This Act is regulated pursuant to Article 3 of the Police Act.

Police organizations shall follow this Act when performing police duties.

The police duties should be performed around the clock and throughout jurisdictions. The administrative police perform general duties; other specific duties are performed by the specialized police.

The police duty organizations are classified into the basic, operational, and supervisory units.

The Police beat is the basic unit of a police organization. It is under the charge of an individual police officer.

1The Police beats are allocated according to the following criteria:

21. Autonomous district: Each village is divided into one police beat. If the size of a village is too small, two or more villages could be combined into one police beat. If a village is too large, it could be divided into more than one police beat.

32. Population: Every two thousand residents or five hundred households contribute to a police beat.

4The aforementioned allocation of police beats in the preceding paragraph shall also be subject to crime incidence, local characteristics, the number of police, complexity of tasks, the size of the area, traffic conditions, telecommunications facilities, and future trends in development and shall be adjusted accordingly.

5The criminal investigation police and foreign affairs police may also allocate their beats in accordance with the abovementioned criteria.

1The police stations serve as duty operational units, responsible for allocating beats, as well as performing and supervising duties.

2The National Police Agency, Ministry of the Interior sets the standards of the establishment of police stations.

3When a remote beat is unavailable for joint duty with other beats, a police post can be set up and staffed with one officer to perform duties alone.

1The Police organizations at the municipality or county/city level, considering the availability of police equipment and the need for a police force in densely populated urban neighborhoods and suburban neighborhoods with special public security concerns, may centralize their resources for mobile utilization instead of establishing police stations in those areas. Police officers are moved into police duty squads at the police precincts and work rotating shifts.

2If necessary, police departments can set up security posts in certain areas for security guarding.

Police precincts are the planning and supervisory units and serve as the executive units when it comes to performing top-priority duties. Precincts are responsible for planning, commanding, controlling, supervising, and auditing all the duties of the police stations under their jurisdictions, along with performing top-priority duties.

Police departments are the planning and supervisory units responsible for planning, commanding, controlling, supervising, and auditing all the duties of the police units under their jurisdictions and may perform prioritized duties directly.

1The types of general duties are as follows:

21. Household Visit: The beat officer visits households in their beat to prevent crimes, provide services, and conduct security polls. The Ministry of the Interior shall enact the Regulations Governing Household Visit.

32. Patrol: The police station shall map out the patrol route where the duty officers are assigned to patrol, along with inspecting and questioning suspicious persons, writing tickets, and other general duties to detect and prevent hazards.

43. Routine Check: The duty officers conduct raids or road checks at public places or designated roads to question suspicious persons and enforce laws and traffic regulations or other statutory missions.

54. Police Watch: Duty officers assigned to certain guard posts, which are set at the specific spots of important areas or high-accident locations, are required not only to watch, guard, and control but also to respond to reports, answer inquiries, direct the traffic and carry out general police duties.

65. Duty Counter: A duty counter is set up at each police station with a police officer on duty in turn. The on-duty officer is to manage calls, convey orders, and receive reports. If necessary, they shall stand in the doorway to watch over nearby areas and guard the police station.

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1Household visit is an individual duty that is to be carried out by its beat officers. While patrol, routine check, police watch, duty counter, and stand-by duty are general duties which are performed by officers who work rotating shifts according to the duty rosters.

2The aforementioned general duties in the preceding paragraph may be altered to patrol or other duties according to the number of duty officers and public order situations. Nevertheless, patrol shall be the primary duty to be scheduled.

1The patrol duties shall be carried out using foot patrol, vehicle patrol, mounted patrol, boat patrol, and helicopter patrol, depending on the size of the area, public order situations, geographic and traffic conditions.

2Patrol routes can be fixed or unfixed, flexibly adjusted in response to the needs of different beats. Meanwhile, patrolling either upward or backward along the route shall be regularly or irregularly alternated.

In the needs of public order, police organizations at every level may assign police officers to mobile squads, utilizing combined force to perform duties of patrol, routine check, and raid in designated areas and accomplish statutory missions such as writing tickets, preventing crimes, and clamping down on illegal activities. Furthermore, the police organizations shall reserve police force for mobile utilization.

1Duty hours is 24 hours a day. Starting at 00:00 and ending at 24:00. The period from 00:00 to 6:00 is the midnight shift; from 18:00 to 24:00 is the night shift, and the rest of time is the day shift. Each police department sets the rotating pattern for its police duty hours.

2Duty hours for a police officer in a day is basically eight hours. If necessary, it can be extended subject to the actual situation. Duty officers are scheduled two days off a week, but they might be canceled in case of emergencies. Police officers may be required to stand by at police organizations to respond to security situations.

3The aforementioned shift-length extension, day-off suspension, or standing by to perform duties shall be made up afterwards.

1The arrangement of police duty hours is normally four hours of active duties followed by eight hours of passive duties; other arrangements may also be adopted if necessary.

2During duty hours, officers shall be scheduled to perform different duties, each duty is usually 2-4 hours depending on the available police force and workload. In special circumstances, the length of certain duties shall be shortened or extended. Nevertheless, household visits shall be basically scheduled for 2-4 hours a day to balance the officer’s workload.

3Duty officers shall get eight consecutive hours’ sleep a day, and the length of midnight shift shall not exceed the four-hour limit unless there are special missions to fulfill.

1The duty planning and supervisory units shall set duty-arrangement standards which must adequately plan the grouping, alternation of duties, and length of shifts for line officers to perform rotationally and comply with the following rules:

21. The duty hours must be circadian coverage without any lapses.

32. Varied duties, alternately scheduled based on necessity, shall enable every officer to work rotating shifts on average.

43. The active and passive duties shall be planned evenly to help officers recover spirit and physical strength.

54. Mobilized police force shall often be adequately managed to fill in for absences and assist in handling unexpected situations.

65. Every police officer must have time for further education or in-service training.

7The aforementioned arrangement of duties in the preceding paragraph shall follow the three-shift rotation system or other shift pattern if deemed adequate to meet actual needs. When operational units are only staffed with three to five police officers, the half-day alternation system may be adopted. If there are only two police officers, the whole-day alternation system shall apply also in these situations, midnight shift duties could take the form of standing by at the workplace.

The operational units shall schedule the roster in accordance with the aforementioned rules, considering the security situations and available force, daily, and submit the rosters to the supervisory authority for reference. Any changes in the roster should be reported as well.

When police departments must carry out individual duties and general duties separately to meet the circumstances’ needs, the precincts and stations shall be respectively mobilized as duty units in which police officers were assigned to household visits. If necessary, they may expand the beats and assign other police officers to rotationally carry out the general duties.

If police departments or precincts have set up various police squads/teams, they shall assign police officers, depending on the needs of the mission, to perform each of the specific duties to maximize the coverage of duties from point and line to plane by which an overall duty effectiveness can be achieved.

When police organizations must alter their ordinary duty assignments because of unexpected special situations, officers shall perform their duties according to their supervisor’s order.

The duty command center of police organizations at every level is in charge of dispatching, commanding, and controlling their respective police force to carry out various duties. In case of major disasters, accidents, or other incidents within the jurisdiction, they may request assistance from non-subordinate police forces or those from the neighboring police units.

1The equipment and duty gear are equipped and distributed to police officers based on necessities.

2The National Police Agency, Ministry of the Interior shall regulate the standards of the aforementioned equipment and gears in the preceding paragraph.

1Roll call shall be conducted before the shift officers carrying out duties. Roll calls are classified into the following types:

21. Base roll call: conducted at police station level.

32. Joint roll call: conducted at precinct level.

43. Special operation roll call: conducted before a special operation or emergent task.

1Roll call shall be conducted as follows:

21. Inspection of personal grooming, attire and duty gear.

32. Announcement of important policies and orders.

43. Review on previous shift’s incidents and highlight of the priorities in the current shift.

5The form, time, and frequency of the aforementioned roll call in the preceding paragraph shall be regulated by the respective police departments, depending on those field units’ operational conditions.

1All levels of police departments shall develop a system of supervision, rewards and punishments to motivate the duty officers, provide them with work guidance and audit their performance.

2Duty supervision shall be stepped up at dawn, in the evening, during storms, rains, or snows, on important holidays, and in special areas.

This Act shall apply to specialized police authorities when carrying out their exclusive duties.

All levels of police departments shall stipulate their own enforcement rules and submit them to the supervisory police authorities for the approval of implementation.

This Act shall come into force on the date of promulgation.