Скачать или смотреть Police weapons repair shop is the only place you can get a gun fixed in Taiwan

We now go to Taipei’s Liuzhangli where a unique repair shop is "one of a kind" in Taiwan. The Police Repair Shop is the only place you can get police weapons fixed in the whole country. Firearms are tightly controlled in Taiwan, but police officers do carry them. And repair experts like master engineer Lee Chin-kuo are some of the only people allowed to handle those weapons. Let’s take a peek inside the workshop.

Lee Chin-kuo picks up a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. He proceeds to take it apart piece by piece, with the utmost care.

This is his police repair shop – the only place in Taiwan where you can get police weapons fixed. The repair engineers here work behind the scenes to keep police officers, their weapons, and the public safe.

Lee Chin-kuo
Police equipment repair expert
This is a gun that was sent to us from Taiwan Police College for repair. The note says the damage is a crack in the gun body.

There’s a strict procedure to follow when a weapon comes in. First, engineers check its serial number and carry out an initial assessment. When they know which parts are faulty, they assign tasks to members of the team, and it enters the repair line. Lee, 65 years old, has been doing this job for almost 50 years. New recruits who want to learn the art of weapons repair need to learn from him before they can even get started.

Lee Chin-kuo
Police equipment repair expert
Repairing guns sounds like a rather sensitive and a rather special industry. In fact, what we’re doing here is simply mechanical work. Now, of course we do have a certain sense of honor in serving the equipment used by our colleagues in the police force.

In the course of protecting the public, the police occasionally use guns to apprehend violent criminals. And behind the scenes, the work of Lee and his team keeps those guns in good shape, ensuring the safety of everyone.