Their workloads have become more complex and their personnel have been "raided" by the private sector in these areas. In all these areas, the lifting of martial law has unleashed social demands, ranging from increases in requests for exit visas to increased labor-management disputes to mediate, a vastly larger media to oversee, and demands on police in terms of street demonstrations.
台北市新聞處掌管新聞發布的四科，從前年報禁開放以來，陸續被報社、廣播電台等媒體挖走了六個人；環保署內掌管環保糾紛及監督環保工程的管理考核處，最近一年以來，也流失了七、八個人。