The president feels that the signing of the Cross-Strait Joint Crime-Fighting and Judicial Mutual Assistance Agreement in 2009 is one factor in the improvement in public safety here, since the vast majority of criminal suspects fleeing to the mainland have been repatriated. Even some suspects who have fled to Southeast Asian nations have been arrested and sent back to Taiwan as the result of cross-strait cooperation. The president pointed to the instance in which bombs had been planted on a high-speed train here in April 2013, commenting that Taiwan's police confirmed the identity of the suspects within one day of the crime, and within five days they had been arrested in mainland China and returned to Taiwan. "This is something that would have been impossible in the past," the president noted. As of March of this year, cross-strait cooperation had resulted in cracking 99 major criminal cases and the capture of over 6,000 criminals, he said.
【Source: Office of the President】