Hsieh Ing-dan
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Hsieh Ing-dan (; born 28 September 1949) is a Taiwanese police officer.


Life and career

Hsieh was born on 28 September 1949, and raised in
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. He began study of administrative management in 1967, at what became
Central Police University Central Police University (CPU; zh, t=中央警察大學, s=中央警察大学, first=t, poj=Tiong-iong Kéng-chhat Tāi-ha̍k, p=Zhōngyāng Jǐngchá Dàxué) is a public police academy located in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. CPU i ...
. Hsieh joined the Nantou County Police Department's Criminal Investigation Corps as a junior detective after graduation. In 1981, he was assigned to the equivalent division of the Taichung City Police Department and promoted to lieutenant. The following year, Hsieh received another promotion, to captain. In 1985, Hsieh was named a precinct director within Taichung. The next year, Hsieh joined the
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, a division of the
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(NPA), with the rank of lieutenant. By 1987, the CIB had promoted Hsieh to captain. Soon after, Hsieh accepted an assignment as chief of Taipei City Police Department's Criminal Investigation Corps. He became commissioner of the Yilan County Police Department in 1989, leaving in 1993 to return to the NPA as head of the Administration Section. Following his second stint at the NPA, Hsieh served as head of the Taoyuan County Police Department. Between 1996 and 1997, Hsieh was deputy leader of the
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's police department. Within the NPA, Hsieh was promoted to chief inspector. Hsieh led the Kaohsiung City Police Department between 1997 and 2001. While with the Kaohsiung City Police Department, Hsieh worked to solve the assassination of Lan Chen-yuan, a former member of the Kaohsiung County Council. Hsieh was appointed a deputy director of the National Police Agency in February 2001, serving alongside Liu Shih-lin and Hung Sheng-kun. In this position, Hsieh aided efforts to locate politician . Hsieh was recruited to join the
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in 2002. In April 2004, the
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presidential administration named Hsieh the director of the National Police Agency. Upon assuming leadership of the NPA, Hsieh pledge to combat fraud. After Hsieh met with other government agency executives later that month, he announced that the National Police Agency set up a hotline dedicated to reports of fraud. A protest occurred at
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in April 2005, as
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left Taiwan to participate in the
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. The
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and People First Party called for several resignations, including that of Hsieh from the National Police Agency. Vice Minister of the Interior Lin Yung-chien elected to step down, but supported the retention of Hsieh. Hsieh later announced that he would be at CKS Airport on 3 May, when Lien was scheduled to return. The day after Lien's return, fifteen Democratic Progressive Party legislators went to see Hsieh at the National Police Agency to discuss police actions at the airport on 3 May. The lawmakers were unable to meet with Hsieh, and subsequently disrupted NPA headquarters by flipping tables, and throwing water bottles in protest.
Hou You-yi Hou Yu-ih (; born 6 June 1956) is a Taiwanese politician, criminologist, and former police officer. He has been the incumbent mayor of New Taipei since 25 December 2018. Previously, he served as Director-General of the National Police Agency f ...
was appointed to replace Hsieh as director of the NPA in February 2006. Hsieh was subsequently named president of
Central Police University Central Police University (CPU; zh, t=中央警察大學, s=中央警察大学, first=t, poj=Tiong-iong Kéng-chhat Tāi-ha̍k, p=Zhōngyāng Jǐngchá Dàxué) is a public police academy located in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. CPU i ...
, serving until 2008, when he was again succeeded by Hou.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hsieh, Ing-dan 1949 births Living people Taiwanese police officers Academic staff of the Central Police University Central Police University alumni People from Changhua County Presidents of universities and colleges in Taiwan