An unusual public spat inside Taichung's police force has a precinct chief personally answering anonymous complaints from his own officers, and neither side is backing down.

• Officers at the Wuri precinct in Taichung used an anonymous police Facebook group to complain to the city police commissioner about their new chief.
• They said an unusual number of supervisors and senior staff have quit, retired, or transferred out in the seven months since Hsieh Po-hsien took over.
• Some reportedly accepted demotions or moves to other precincts rather than stay.
• Instead of the commissioner, the chief himself replied, saying he would not lower his demands on supervisors but would keep encouraging rank-and-file officers.
• He admitted he could have handled some things better, like cutting off long internal reports without regard for how it felt, and defended pooling officers from different stations for drunk-driving checkpoints as a safety measure.

Outlook: The exchange has spread widely among Taiwanese police since it appeared, and pressure is now on the city commissioner to say whether he will look into the turnover.