Taichung police hit by second ticket-downgrading corruption case
Another group of Taichung police officers is accused of quietly downgrading traffic fines for people who asked favors — bad news for a force already facing a similar scandal.
- Eleven officers from the Dadun station are accused of falsifying traffic ticket records between 2019 and 2021.
- The trick: swapping higher-fine tickets for cheaper ones as a favor to drivers.
- Prosecutors searched ten homes and offices; one officer is being held without visitors, and ten others were released on bail.
- This mirrors an earlier case at the Xitun station, where 31 officers are still on trial.
- The lead officer faces corruption and document-forgery charges carrying at least five years in prison.
Outlook: The investigation will widen as prosecutors probe how far the favor network ran, with city police promising no cover-ups.