Moreover, in response to numerous unconfirmed reports of vote-buying in Hualien, Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien dispatched a large contingent of several hundred police officers from Kaohsiung and Taipei to join more than 1200 local police to investigate and make a show of force.
其次，由於各種賄選傳聞甚囂塵上，內政部動員大批警力查賄。內政部長余政憲直接下令從高雄、台北調集數百名警力到花蓮，加上地方的一千二百多名警力，查賄警力陣容空前。