International Review Committee for the Review of the First Report. It must be cautioned that for the time being the death penalty practices adopted by the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutors Office are not adequately designed to protect any prisoner whose application for remedy against the denial of his/her application for pardon is still pending. Such practices appear to deviate from subparagraph 1, Paragraph 3 of Article 2 of the ICCPR, Paragraph 47 of the General Comments No. 36 on the ICCPR and Point 57 of the Concluding Observations and Recommendations adopted by the International Review Committee for the Review of the First Report of the Government of Taiwan on the Implementation of International Human Rights Covenants. Prevention of Excessive Police Force 19. When apprehending burglars on August 31, 2017, the police offiers sent by Fenggang Police Station in Hsinchu County apparently applied excessive police force, firing 9 shots within 12 seconds at very close range at a migrant worker named Nguyen. The shots were concentrated on the migrant worker’s back and between his waist and belly. The migrant worker subsequently died as a result. The officers should be held responsible for exceeding the necessary degree of force defined under the Act Governing the Use of Police Weapons. The flurry of shots fired by the police caused massive bleeding to the migrant worker, resulting in his death; this excessive use of force was far out of proportion. Moreover, when the first Shanchi ambulance team of the Hsinchu County Government Fire Bureau arrived on the scene, the firefighters sent a civil guard, whose nose had been broken, to be given treatment first. They sent the migrant worker Nguyen for treatment in the second ambulance, which arrived at the site 14 minutes later. The migrant worker died of his severe injuries before arrival at the hospital. The procedures applied could hardly be considered appropriate. 20. The investigation found that most entry-level police officers responsible for frontline patrols and duties in police stations have graduated from Taiwan Police College, and usually they have a high likeness of using guns and also having to deal with more complicated situations in their work. However, unlike the current training programs adopted by the Central Police University, which contain a 216-hour firearms training program, Taiwan Police College only provides a 140-hour firearms training program, and it does not include the Computer Firearms Simulation Training class. Consequently, the entrylevel police officers’ knowledge about firearms, as well as their skill and accuracy in using them, might not afford them the tools to respond to an onthe-spot situation properly. 12