Research On Cross-strait Cooperation In Drug Crimes Investigation

In the trend of global spreading of drug problem, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan is facing a tough situation of drug crimes. Because of its geographical, personal relations and the progressive integration between two sides over the past 20 years, cross-strait drug crimes show the characters of mutual infiltration and normalization. Threats from the "Golden Triangle" and the "Golden Crescent" drug sources and a huge drug consuming market in Southeast Asia will continue to promote the development of cross-strait drug-related crimes, moreover, the cross-strait "mini three links" and the progressive realizing "junior-link" bringing more frequent exchanges of economy, trade and culture, will also intensify the situation of cross-border drug crimes at the same time. To effectively curb the hazards to the social stability and public safety with drug crimes, the cross-strait police should cooperate with each other in fighting against drug crimes. In recent years, the police from two sides of the Taiwan Straits have attempted some cooperation through indirect channels to fight against drug crimes, but they still face series of difficulties, such as the conflict of criminal jurisdiction, too little cooperation projects and lack of normal cooperation mechanism. To break the existing difficulties in cross-strait cooperation against drug crimes, the most important is to establish a bilateral cooperation mechanism under the framework of "different jurisdictions within one country", that is, to carry out trans-regional investigative cooperation. Therefore, the two sides should establish cooperation channels including mutual sending contact counterparts, drug control liaison officers and exchanging personnel of drug law enforcement to strengthen the mutual communication and understanding. At the same time, the investigative cooperation mechanisms fighting against drug crimes, such as intelligence exchange, controlled delivery, entrusting investigation and evidence collection, recovery and sharing of drug proceeds and so on should be established. In addition, it is necessary to sign a regional level drug criminal judicial assistance agreement to regulate the cooperative investigation between the two sides, and to take it as the entry point of establishing a basis for mutual trust, experience accumulation, so as to gradually expand the scope of cross-strait cooperation to carry out a comprehensive regional criminal judicial assistance.