Historical Background
The “Taipei District Court Prosecutors Bureau” of the Japanese Occupation Period was the forerunner of the Taipei Prosecutors Office. Following the restoration of Taiwan to the Republic of China, the ROC government appointed the first lead prosecutor, Mr. Chaing Wei-chu, to assume leadership of the bureau on November 1, 1945. Thereafter, the bureau was given a new name, the Taiwan Taipei District Court Public Prosecutors Department. Then on December 24, 1989, in line with the amendment of the Law of the Court Organization, the department was given its present name, the “Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office”. The title of the head of the department was also amended from Lead Prosecutor to the Chief Prosecutor.

Since the early days following the government assumption of jurisdiction over the Taipei District Court Prosecutors Bureau, in the early days following the amendment of the bureau’s name, the bureau’s office had transferred from its former location in the Japanese Occupation Period, Chomei 3, Wen-Wu Machi, Taipei State, to its present-day location which occupies the first and second floors of the Taipei Judicial Building.