Major General Wu Songling, the new deputy chief of the presidential palace, was quickly transferred from his current post after taking office for only two days. Senior military officials analyzed today that Wu Songling's transfer was not just related to the rumored use of official vehicles during his tenure as the principal of the Chung Cheng Preparatory School. Reporting cases involving other reasons, coupled with the image of the presidential guard room, must be dealt with quickly.

(The picture is taken from the fan group website of Chung Cheng Pre-school)

[Reporter Luo Tianbin/Taipei Report] Major General Wu Songling, the new deputy head of the presidential palace, took office on March 1. Unexpectedly, he was quickly transferred from his current post in just 2 days. Senior military officials analyzed today that Wu Songling's transfer was not just the rumored one. The principal of Chung Cheng Preparatory School improperly used official vehicles during his tenure, the military also received reports of other reasons, and the image of the presidential guard room was involved, so it was necessary to deal with personnel affairs quickly.

The Army Command stated today that Major General Wu Songling may have failed to use official vehicles in accordance with the regulations in 2020 (while serving as the principal of the Chung Cheng Preparatory School). Ministry members.

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Officials said that the outside world is not familiar with the position of Deputy Chief of Guards, his powers and the business he is responsible for. In the past, the procedures for handling personnel cases of the Deputy Chief of Guards have received less attention. The rank of the lieutenant general of the chief guard is relatively high, but it is a position close to the core of power.

He analyzed that the presidential palace has a guard room, which is a first-level unit of the presidential palace. It also has a lieutenant general guard, a major general deputy guard chief, and three major general security chiefs, all of whom are military personnel.

In the special security maintenance system for the president and vice president, both the president and the vice president have a guard room. In the past, the deputy head of the bodyguard was also the director of the presidential guard room, and the two security directors in the presidential palace were the internal guards of the presidential guard room. The director, the director of the external security, the third security director in the presidential palace establishment, is the director of the vice president's security room.

Officials said that the candidate for the Deputy Chief of Guards is the person who will be responsible for the overall security tasks of the Presidential Guardhouse. Internally, he will supervise the training and discipline of the Presidential Guardhouse, and externally, he will coordinate with relevant security units to handle the security maintenance and planning of the Presidential Guardhouse. The responsibility is quite heavy, and the selection and recommendation procedures of candidates should be handled relatively more carefully.

According to the personnel procedures of chief and deputy chief guards, when there is a vacancy for chief guards, each military branch should propose candidates (current lieutenant generals and senior major generals are acceptable). rank major general, but excellent senior colonels can be submitted), the military branch will submit the list to the Ministry of National Defense after internal selection and comprehensive evaluation, and the Ministry of National Defense will report to the Presidential Office after compiling the list of suggestions submitted by the military service, and then the The president circles the candidates.

Officials pointed out that the proposed list of chiefs and deputy guards is proposed by various military services, compiled by the Ministry of National Defense, and then submitted to the Presidential Office. Candidates for the list of generals must conduct a complete personnel assessment before being selected by the president. If a candidate for the list is suggested to have moral or ethical issues, the military headquarters and the Ministry of National Defense should first investigate and exclude them. This kind of embarrassing scene of being transferred to the current position just 2 days after taking office.

The guard room of the Presidential Palace has had "secret service personnel suspected of illegal smuggling of cigarettes" in the past. Qiu Guozheng, then director of the National Security Bureau, held a press conference at the time and said that under the established system in the future, the guard room will be supervised by the National Security Bureau.

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