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Taiwan deepens legal diplomacy by training Guatemalan officers in cybercrime investigations

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Named sources Outcome reported
  • Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau held its first cybersecurity and cybercrime prevention training course for Guatemalan law-enforcement personnel.
  • The 15 participants studied cybercrime investigations, digital forensics, technology-assisted investigations, and digital evidence analysis.
  • The cooperation extends Taiwan and Guatemala’s security partnership from equipment support to professional training and personnel exchanges.

Taiwan is extending its cooperation with allied Guatemala beyond traditional aid and police equipment, offering training in cybercrime investigations and digital forensics.

The Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau recently organized its first specialized course for Guatemalan law-enforcement personnel. The program combined classroom instruction on cybercrime investigations and cybersecurity forensics with practical exercises. Fifteen Guatemalan trainees took part.

Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry thanked Taiwan for the assistance, saying the training improved participants’ ability to investigate cybercrime and conduct cybersecurity forensics. The trainees also learned about Taiwan’s experience with technology-based investigations, digital evidence analysis, and efforts to combat different forms of crime.

The collection, analysis, and examination of digital evidence have become an indispensable part of modern law enforcement.

· Chen Po-liTaiwan’s Investigation Bureau director described the importance of the training’s technical focus.

Investigation Bureau Director Chen Po-li said the collection, analysis, and examination of digital evidence had become indispensable to modern law enforcement. He said the end of the course should not mark the end of the exchange, but the beginning of further cooperation. The Guatemalan delegation also visited the bureau’s cybersecurity forensics laboratory, an anti-drug exhibition, and the bureau’s Prospect Hall.

The partnership has included Taiwan’s donation of more than 500 Taiwan-made police motorcycles to Guatemala’s Interior Ministry. The latest program shifts the emphasis from hardware support toward professional expertise and personnel development. Taiwan’s international training programs have also covered transnational crime, computer crime, money-laundering prevention, drug forensics, and DNA analysis. The bureau said the Guatemala course could help build personnel links and widen cooperation against cross-border crime.

Graduation is not the end of the exchange, but the starting point for more cooperation in the future.

· Chen Po-liHe presented the course as the beginning of continued Taiwan-Guatemala cooperation.
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