New Taipei City Prosecutor's Office.

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[Reporter Wang Dingchuan/New Taipei Report] In August of this year, a police officer surnamed Lin from the Shulin Police Station of the Shulin Branch of the New Taipei City Government Police Department was suspected of holding a key to open the lock of the gun room door, and then stealing things lost by the public and temporarily storing them in the gun room. The New Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office today prosecuted Lin Yuan for the crime of stealing security equipment by taking advantage of his position as a civil servant, and asked the court to increase his sentence to one-half.

According to the investigation by the police, on the morning of July 22 this year, when the forest officer was performing patrol duties, he received a report and went to the South China Commercial Bank to deal with the case of found and lost items, and then returned to the police station. I counted the cash for another colleague surnamed Lin. Since it was a holiday, the colleague Lin locked the cash in the found-and-find box in the gun room.

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The investigation by the police found that at about 6:00 a.m. on August 2 of the same year, when the forest officer returned to the police station after performing security duties in the supermarket, he took advantage of the opportunity to open the gun room when returning the gun. Locked the door of the gun room, stole more than 30,000 yuan in the safe deposit box and left.

Members of the forest staff later discovered that the cash was missing, reported to the deputy director and checked the monitors, only to discover the behavior of the forest staff. The forest staff confessed to taking the cash and returned the cash on the 5th of the same month; After the investigation, the prosecutor prosecuted Lin Yuan for the crime of stealing security equipment by taking advantage of his position as a civil servant, and asked the court to increase his sentence to one-half.