The Taichung Police Department’s reorganization of police dog handlers is cruel to the animals and disrupts human-canine teamwork, the New Power Party’s (NPP) Taichung chapter said on Wednesday.
The department in November last year imposed a two-year term limit on police dog handlers and last month dismissed four of its eight handlers, NPP officials told a news conference outside the Taichung City Government building.
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) is using police dogs as props in public relations events instead of deploying skilled working animals that require special care, said Hsu Hsiao-mei (徐小媚), the party’s regional director for the city’s South and
CAA to investigate alleged jetpack flight in Taichung
ILLEGAL TAKE-OFF? An import permit is needed to bring a jetpack into Taiwan and people who want to use one must be certified as ‘flight-worthy’
By Hsiao Yu-hsin, Hsu Kuo-chen and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) yesterday said it would work with law enforcement authorities to determine the authenticity of a video clip circulating online that purportedly shows a person flying with a jetpack over Taichung.
The Civil Aviation Act (民用航空法) designates jetpacks as level 1 aircraft and people who want to bring them into Taiwan need to obtain an import permit, the agency said in a statement.
Firms ‘unaffected’ by drought: minister
EXTREME WEATHER: Due to climate change, there is greater ‘interannual variability,’ meaning Taiwan is experiencing dramatically drier and wetter years, an expert said
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
Despite a “less than ideal” amount of rain this month, the nation’s manufacturers “remain unaffected” by this year’s drought, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said yesterday.
“It’s true that the weather forecasts for April are not ideal, but by continuing current water restrictions in central Taiwan, there should be enough water until the plum rain season arrives,” Wang said.
Taichung and Miaoli County have been on “red alert” since Tuesday last week, with weekly water supplies to households and businesses on for five days and off for two days.
Training in a station
A police dog grapples with a protective sleeve worn by a mock terrorism suspect as officers stand guard in a drill at the City Hall MRT Station in Taichung yesterday. The drill was organized by the Taichung Police Department and Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Corp to simulate the aftermath of a bomb blast at the station.
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