Department of Government Ethics

       In order for the new civil servants to better understand and follow through the Integrity and Ethics Directions for Civil Servants; the Department of Government Ethics, Taipei City Government has hosted “2017 Legal Lecture for New Coming Civil Servants” on July 18, 2017 and invite Kuo, Chien-Yu, one of the prosecutors from Taipei District Prosecutors Office as the speaker.

       Lin, Hui-Chin, Chief Secretary of Department of Government Ethics, Taipei City Government states that, the incoming civil servants are the new force to the government, it is important for them to fully understand and follow through the concepts and regulations of ethics and integrity for civil servants. Thus, the department, under the supervision of Agency Against Corruption, held this specialized lecture hoping to convey the integrity and legal conception to the new coming civil servants and then build a honest, effective and trustworthy government.

       Prosecutor Kuo has tailored the lecture according to the incoming civil servants, and the majority of the materials are based on the General Description on “National Integrity Building Action Plan, Integrity and Ethics Directions for Civil Servants, administrative responsibilities, criminal responsibility, common breaches of government procurement regulations, The Anti-Corruption Informant Rewards and Protection Regulation,” and more. As an experienced prosecutor, Kuo has successfully explained profound legal concepts in simple language and  grabbed more than 200 incoming civil servants’ attention, and  their enthusiastic feedbacks.

       Department of Government Ethics, Taipei City Government states that integrity is the fundamental key and basic requirement as a civil servant and it is an internal quality, not by external force. Hosting lecture is simply to remind the civil servants the legal conception. In the future, the department will organize more lectures with different subjects and for different audience in hope to create a clean and transparent government image.