일제하 대만 경찰력의 재검토 ― 번지 경찰력과 평지 경찰력의 통합적 이해 ―

Abstract

I would like to put some new findings together according to what we had analyzed in this article. First, parapolice manpower system, originated from colonial Taiwan’s dualistic ruling system, was operated on a large scale, which which explains we cannot ignore the importance of parapolice manpower. But they were not equivalent to regular police officer in terms of rank, wage and duty, so if we want to measure the total police force of colonial Taiwan, we have to convert parapolice manpower into regular police manpower. I concluded that two parapolice manpower is approximately equal to one regular police manpower.BR Second, I reexaminated the scale of police manpower on the basis of the conversion above, and found that police manpower allocated on aborigine land accounted for 25% to 39% of the total police manpower, which explains that Government-General of Taiwan invested enormous human and material resources in order to govern securely aborigine land. But the relations between police manpower on aborigine land(= special administration area) and police manpower on general administration area was not the kind of zero sum. The police manpower on both areas increased simultaneously, and it implies that we cannot fully explain the superiority of colonial Taiwan’s police manpower compared with other regions within Japanese empire was derived from Taiwan’s regional characteristics like presence of aborigine land and aborigines.BR Anyway, the total police manpower of colonial Taiwan was far stronger than ant other parts of Japanese empire. It is confirmed in terms of population per police manpower and area per police station, especially compared with colonial Korea, the superiority of colonial Taiwan’s police manpower is striking.BR On the other hand, ethnic composition of police manpower in colonial Taiwan was no different from that of colonial Korea, not like previous researches have emphasized. Taiwanese police manpower ranged from 30 % to 46% of total police manpower of colonial Taiwan, and Korean police manpower ranged from 37 % to 44% of total police manpower of colonial Korea, which implies we rather see similarity than difference in terms of ethnic composition of police manpower. In the case of colonial Taiwan, the possible tension between police manpower demand and financial pressure was able to be resolved by applying ethnically hierarchic structure(Japanese Taiwanese-Aboriginal) to police manpower allocation.