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National Police

Table 7-7 Results of Operation Zhi-Pian
Unit: Persons
Total Number of Targeted Criminals Arrested
Result Number of Confiscated Illegal
Accomplices
High-Profile Gang Other Criminals Profit (NT$)
Year Total Arrested
Leaders Arrested Arrested
2013 288 30 258 2 424 -
2014 311 41 270 2 252 16 972 360
2015 351 41 310 2 663 27 825 156

2016 289 19 270 2 355 6 416 700
2017 236 15 221 2 021 738 132 334
Increase/Decrease
Percentage (%) -18.34 -21.05 -18.15 -14.18 11 403.30
2017 to 2016
* Confiscated illegal profit is collected from 2013.

④ Conducting gang sweeps

In addition to a total of 39 gang-sweeping operations conducted by county police departments
in 2017, the NPA implemented six national simultaneous gang sweeps to safeguard the social

security. During the operations, the police arrested 174 high-profile gang leaders and 1,258 gang
members. Under the "Operation Searching and Spot Checking against Gangs", the police arrested
2,863 other individuals, and confiscated 128 guns of various models (See Table 7-8).

Table 7-8 Results of Gang Sweeps
Operation Zhi-Pian Special Raiding Operations
Result Number of High-Profile
National Sweeps Accomplices Number Number of
Year conducted Gang Leaders Arrested of Criminal Firearms
Arrested (Persons) Offender Seized
(Persons)
2013 7 112 867 6 552 184
2014 7 127 850 6 766 171
2015 32 153 1 100 8 048 215

2016 43 160 1 120 3 581 134
2017 45 174 1 258 2 863 128
Increase/Decrease
Percentage (%) 4.65 8.75 12.32 -20.05 -4.48
2017 to 2016

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