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In this Chinese name, the family name is Yao.
Yao Kao-chiao
MLY
姚高橋
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
25 October 2001 – 31 January 2002
Preceded byTseng Chen-nung [zh]
Minister of the Coast Guard Administration
In office
1 February 2000 – 19 May 2000
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byWang Chun
Director-General of the National Police Agency of the Republic of China
In office
13 June 1996 – August 1997
Preceded byYen Shih-hsi [zh]
Succeeded byTing Yuan-chin
President of Central Police University
In office
May 1995 – June 1996
Preceded byYen Shih-hsi [zh]
Succeeded byChen Bi
Personal details
BornZhunan, Miaoli County
NationalityRepublic of China
Political partyKuomintang (until 2002)
Alma materCentral Police University

Yao Kao-chiao (Chinese: 姚高橋; pinyin: Yáo Gāoqiáo; born c. 1940) is a Taiwanese politician and former police officer.

Yao was the youngest of five sons, born in the village of Gongyi in Zhunan, Miaoli County.[1] He later moved to Taipei.[2] Yao studied law at what became Central Police University and later completed a master's degree in the subject from Meiji University.[3]

He served five years as leader of the Kaohsiung City Police Department and four years with the Taipei County Police Department.[4][5] Between 1995 and 1996, Yao was president of Central Police University.[4][6] Within the National Police Agency, Yao was deputy director-general prior to his appointment as director-general from his post at Central Police University.[6] His tenure as director-general began on 13 June 1996,[7] as he succeeded Yen Shih-hsi [zh].[8] During Yao's leadership of the National Police Agency, the agency attempted unsuccessfully to track Hsiao Teng-piao [zh].[9] Additionally, several violent crimes occurred, among them the assassinations of Liu Pang-yu and Peng Wan-ru, both in November 1996.[10] Soon after, Yao remarked that he would never allow his daughter to take a taxi alone at night.[10] Following the April 1997 murder of Pai Hsiao-yen, Yao stepped down from the National Police Agency in August.[4][6]

In January 2000, Yao was appointed the inaugural minister of the Coast Guard Administration.[11] In this position, he warned against implementation of the three small links, stating that China's intelligence agents and gangsters might use them to infiltrate Taiwan.[12] Yao drew criticism for missing a meeting of the Legislative Yuan in April 2000, despite the fact that he had applied for leave and had gone to Kinmen to discuss borrowing patrol boats from the Republic of China Armed Forces.[13]

After stepping down from the Coast Guard Administration as the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration took office, Yao worked for the National Policy Foundation, a think tank affiliated with the Kuomintang.[14][6] The party nominated him as a Kaohsiung-based candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2001,[2] but he was not elected. Instead, Yao took office on 25 October 2001,[3] succeeding Tseng Chen-nung [zh] on the party list compiled for proportional representation. He was one of three candidates contesting the Kuomintang nomination for the 2002 Kaohsiung mayoral election.[15] The Kuomintang's deliberations with the People First Party took two months, after which Huang Jun-ying [zh] was named the Pan-Blue Coalition's joint candidate for Kaohsiung.[16][17] Days before the election in December 2002, Yao stated that he would support incumbent Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party.[18] The declaration resulted in Yao's expulsion from the Kuomintang shortly after the election took place.[19][20] In March 2003,[21] after Hsieh began his second mayoral term, he appointed Yao deputy mayor.[22][23] As deputy mayor, Yao led many cultural events.[24][25] In October 2004, Yao met Kim Young-sam during Kim's fourth visit to Taiwan.[26]

During the 2018 local elections, Yao backed the mayoral bids of Hou You-yi in New Taipei, and Han Kuo-yu in Kaohsiung.[5]

References

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  1. ^ 彭健禮 (6 February 2010). "〈北部〉了胞兄遺願……感謝媽祖庇佑 姚高橋陪姪女 捐慈裕宮300萬". Liberty Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "前警政署長姚高橋高雄參選立委警界樂觀其成". China Times (in Chinese). Central News Agency. October 2001. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Yao Kao-chiao (4)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Huang, Joyce (29 October 2001). "All politics is local in the southern port". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b "批小英不像話 姚高橋還要挺韓". China Times (in Chinese). 8 November 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d Huang, Sandy (16 December 2002). "KMT sours to former police head". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  7. ^ "姚高橋岌岌可危，繼任者各有隱憂". Business Weekly (in Chinese). 8 May 1997. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  8. ^ Jou, Ying-cheng (11 August 2000). "Ceremony ushers in new heads of police and fire administrations". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Ex-county council speaker will ask Chiayi prosecutor to reopen case". Taipei Times. 14 September 1999. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  10. ^ a b Lin, Chieh-yu (12 February 2000). "Chen opens fire with ads". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  11. ^ Hsu, Brian (2 February 2000). "New Coast Guard finally launched". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  12. ^ "Siew ponders scrapping 'small three links' bill". Taipei Times. 24 March 2000. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  13. ^ Chu, Monique (13 April 2000). "Coast guard comes under attack". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  14. ^ "KMT survey says social order poor under DPP regime". Taipei Times. 7 January 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  15. ^ Lin, Chieh-yu (4 June 2002). "PFP plans to back KMT's candidates for mayoral races". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  16. ^ Huang, Joyce. "KMT-PFP to name joint candidate by end of the week". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  17. ^ Low, Stephanie (1 August 2001). "KMT wants Huang in Kaohsiung". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  18. ^ Chiu, Yu-tzu (6 December 2002). "Frank Hsieh gets boost from his TSU friends". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  19. ^ Huang, Sandy (10 December 2002). "KMT set to punish members who stumped for DPP". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  20. ^ "KMT expels former police chief for supporting Hsieh". Taipei Times. 12 December 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  21. ^ 黃建華; 楊菁菁 (16 March 2003). "前警政署長姚高橋 將接任高市副市長". Liberty Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  22. ^ "Hsieh begins second term". Taipei Times. 26 December 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Police look to calm angry crowds, increase security". Taipei Times. 22 March 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  24. ^ Chiu, Yu-tzu (16 August 2004). "EPA tries to cut Ghost Month air pollution". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  25. ^ "Kaohsiung turns out for Fox run". Taipei Times. 3 October 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  26. ^ "Kim Young-sam goes on a stroll through Kaohsiung". Taipei Times. 30 October 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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