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Chapter 6 looks at the questioning, testimony, and trial of Master Sergeant Robert G. Reynolds for the shooting of Liu Ziran. It also examines the rumors surrounding the case and U.S. and ROC opinions on the matter. The major questions that had to be answered were whether or not the shooting was an intentional hate crime or act of self-defense, as well as the question of which governing body, the U.S. or the ROC, would try Reynolds and where he would be court-martialed. With the backing of both the ROC's ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs, Defense Minister Yu Dawei wanted it held in Taiwan. U.S. officials met with their counterparts from the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and Government Information Office and reached the consensus that the trial would be held in Taiwan and be open to the press and public. Both sides looked to the trial to resolve the case. More than Sergeant Reynolds, U.S. military justice, if not the basis for the U.S. criminal justice system, was on trial.

This chapter reviews the police studies literature on detectives and criminal investigations in order to provide a platform on which to consider the ethnographic exploration of those specialist detective units that focus their efforts on detecting and investigating drug offences and bringing the offenders to justice. It analyses the nature of detective work, from the origins of the police detective through to the current context of criminal investigation, attends to some of the key themes and concepts that underpin the subject matters under discussion, and begins to examine key issues associated with changing the ways in which investigations are conceived, conducted, and controlled. It also explains why police organizations set up specialist squads to deal with certain forms of criminality and pays particular attention to the special features of detective work in the field of drug control.

Chapter 4 traces the aftermath of the formulation of the Judges’ Rules over the period 1918–60 including their reissue and additional interpretations of 1930, 1946, and 1947. In this account the technical disarray over the meaning of the Rules is analysed and the consequences for policing practices. There is an emphasis both upon the impact upon police culture, particularly within the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from its origins in 1878, and the emergence and intensification of various forms of police deviance and corruption. The chapter links these developments to the experiences of suspects subjected to police questioning practices alongside, in the age of capital punishment, accounts of early cases of miscarriages of justice including that of Timothy Evans for murders committed by John Reginald Christie. In the face of Home Office resistance, public pressure eventually forced the establishment of a Royal Commission on the Police (1962) and a separate review of the Judges’ Rules (1964).