In the authoritarian era, there was little concern for human rights or the rule of law, and dubious methods like entrapment were winked at. "But today the police have to change. The first principle is that they cannot break the law," says veteran investigator Ho Ming-chou, head of the Fourth Investigation Corps at the CIB, who has many years of police experience.
過去在威權時代，人權、法治較不被講究，類似臥底、誘補等在法律模糊地帶的辦案方式，人們也較能諒解，「但是在今天，首先警察辦案心態就要改變，不違法是第一原則」，有豐富辦案經驗的刑事局偵四隊隊長何明洲說。