Police Station

The former Balingshan Police Post is located in the Fuxing District of Taoyuan City. It is located at the intersection of Baling Road and sits about 1,150 meters above sea level. It was established in 1922 by the Government-General in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation.

It is now the Baling Police Station of the Daxi Branch. There are parking lots, a lookout deck, restaurants, and shops. Walk up the fork road next to the police station for 10 minutes to reach Baling Elementary School and Baling Fort.

The Biashan Police Post in the Fuxing District of Taoyuan City sits about 1,325 meters above sea level. It has a good view of Mount Baling and Upper Baling. The police post was set up in 1922 by the Government-General in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. It was not until the post-war period that it was abolished by the National Government.

If you go from Baling to Lalashan Nature Reserve, before reaching the Lalashan Management Station of the Forestry Bureau there will be a concrete platform and several houses on the side of the road. This is the former site of Biashan police post.

The Lalashan Police Post  is located on the 11.5 km point of the Fuba Cross-ridge Historic Trail entrance, at the end of the ridge of Lalashan in Fuxing District, Taoyuan City. It sits about 1,500 meters above sea level and was built in 1922 by the Government-General in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. It was not until the post-war period that it was abolished by the National Government.

Today, the police post ruin still maintains a wide three-story platform, surrounded by stacked stone walls, and stone stairs at the entrance. On the platform, there are still pieces of porcelain bowls and glass bottles from the Japanese Occupation period. It takes about 2 hours on foot to reach the site from the sacred trees of Lalashan.

The Guishan Police Post is located in Wulai District, New Taipei City, at 8.5 km on the Fuba Cross-ridge Historic Trail. It is the midpoint of the entire trail and the entrance to Guishan. It sits about 1,300 meters above sea level, and was set up in 1922 by the Government-General in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation.

Today, what is left from the Guishan police post is its wide platform, surrounded by stacked stone walls and artificial forests on the platform. The former site is covered by weeds and trees. When coming from Fushan, pass the site and you can see many giant trees along the path. Continue walking and you will find yourself in a well-known group of sacred trees in Lalashan.

The Chaken Police Post in Wulai District, New Taipei City is located on the 3.5 km point of the Fuba Cross-ridge Historic Trail. It was built in 1911 for the officers managing indigenous people during the Japanese occupation, and was abolished by the National Government in the post-war period.

Today, you can reach the site on foot and it takes around an hour from the entrance of the Fuba Cross-ridge Historic Trail. In the past, there was a monument for monk Aiyonglin and Liu Shi on site. Nowadays there is only a flat land of bamboo forests.

The Dabang Police Dormitory, located behind the Dabang Police Post in Alishan, was used by the Governor-General in Taiwan to send officers there to supervise the local Tsou people during the Japanese occupation. Due to the changes in the Lifan Policy (Indigene Management), the Dabang Police Post had different names and functions. It was not until the legalization of the station where the officers were stationed that it was named the Dabang Police Officer Station in 1913. At that time, the police dormitory where Dabang was stationed not only provided police housing, but also hosted officials who came for inspection. After the war, the National Government changed it to a dormitory for the mayor’s family members. Currently, the building has been renovated and is being used as the Dabang Visitor Information Center.

The Dabang Police Station is located in Dabang Village, Alishan Township, Chiayi County on the terrace where Tefuye River and Changgu River merge into the mainstream, about 970 meters above sea level. The traditional Tsou name of the place, Dabanu, was taken from the last name of the chief who established the tribe. During the Japanese occupation, the Government-General in Taiwan set up a police post in the Dabang tribe. However, due to changes in the Lifan Policy (Indigene Management), the police post had different names and functions. After the police posts were legalized in 1913, it was named Dabang police officer station.

Today, Dabang Police Station still has an independent firearms and ammunition warehouse as well as the police dormitory of that time.

Huabanuo Police Post is located on the ridge line south-west of the Dafeng Police Post, about 1,930 meters above sea level. It was built in 1920, and was the final stop on the Huabanuo branch of the Batongguan Traversing Historic Trail. The outlook from there is excellent and the terrain is dangerous, making the location a strategic point. Therefore, the Governor-General in Taiwan set up three different types of cannons there. The firing range of these cannons covered almost all of the neighboring Bunun tribes. In addition, the building of the police post was designed and constructed according to the Japanese-style modular square method, using standardized building materials. Since it was built on the ridge line, there was no water available. Water must be drawn from an outside water source through water pipes of a thousand meters long.

The Monument of the Martyrs is located about 1,250 meters above sea level at the Dafeng entrance, where the police officers held welcome and farewell ceremonies. To get here, walk past the Dafeng Railway Bridge and walk up a sloping path on the Batongguan Traversing Historic Trail. Entering from this point is the Dafeng district. The Monument of the Martyrs is made of natural stone with a pebble base. According to the shape, materials and inscriptions of the stele, it is speculated that this stele mainly commemorates the victims of the Dafeng incident, although the inscription behind it is not very clear.

The Dafeng Police Post is located near the Monument of Dafeng Incident. It was established in 1911 and was one of the earliest police posts established during the Japanese occupation. However, the building was burned down during the Dafeng Incident in 1915. In 1920,  the Governor-General in Taiwan rebuilt the police post in a new location by the mountainside with a Wude Hall, armory room, official dormitories, offices, and an exchange place. In the post-war period, the police post was once used by the Forestry Bureau, and some Bunun people who originally lived in Dafeng also returned to settle down.

Today, the Yushan National Park Management Office built a steel-framed iron-clad Dafen mountain hut on the former site of the police post in order to provide accommodation for researchers and hikers.