Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau

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The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (Chinese: 法務部調查局, MJIB) is a criminal-investigation and counter-intelligence agency of the Ministry of Justice of the ROC (Taiwan). The agency is run by the Director General which is accountable to the cabinet level minister, Minister of Justice.

1 History
2 Mission
3 Chain of Command
4 External links

[edit] History

Bureau of Investigation.

The Bureau of Investigation was established in 1927. Initially, it was called Bureau of Investigation and Statistics subordinated to the Central Executive Committee of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). During that time, it was nicknamed "Zhong-Tong" (zh:中統), meaning Central-Statistics. In 1930s and 1940s, it carried the responsibilities of intelligence-gathering and counter-intelligence. By 1949 the bureau was formally established into a government agency and assigned to the Ministry of Interior(內政部). In 1956, the agency was transferred to the Ministry of Justice Administration(zh:司法行政部) and took over most of the counter-intelligence duty in Taiwan. In 1980 the agency was transferred to the current Ministry of Justice(法務部).

Due to its historic background, initially all its field offices were to remain anonymous but later this tradition had been reviewed and decided that all units of MJIB are now transparent and accountable. Although it is a law enforcement agency, MJIB still exercises intelligence-gathering responsibilities but the focus is mainly on Taiwan.

[edit] Mission

Since 30 October 1998, the MJIB function has been redefined by an Executive Yuan decree. The bureau have 9 missions:

Counter any Internal disorder.
Counter any disorder caused by foregin.
Counter any leak of national classified material.
Anti-Corruption of any civil service.
Drug control.
Prevent any organized criminal organization.
Counter any major economic crime.
State Internal Security Investigation.
Any delegated missions or assignments regarding national security and national interests.

[edit] Chain of Command

Administratively, MJIB is answerable to the Minister of Justice. As a result, all public procurators at all level are able to direct the human resource of MJIB. Operationally, MJIB is subjected to the coordination and supervision of National Security Bureau. Naturally, the director of MJIB could be summoned by the Taiwan President for consultant because MJIB's ninth mission of responsibility: to monitor "all matter regarding national security and national interests" in Taiwan.