台灣動物保護警察機制之設計與可行性評估：以審議民主為精神的調查

Design and Viability of an Animal Protection Police Corps in Taiwan from the Perspective of Deliberative Democracy

近年來，台灣因為多起殘酷的動物虐待案件，使得大眾要求政府積極處理案件的壓力不斷提升，也因此動物保護團體積極地倡議由政府成立動物保護警察。然而，相較於民間強烈的倡議，目前政府處理動保虐待案件機制尚不足以因應，最主要的困難有二端。首先，道德性政策由於雙方倡議者對於價值的堅持，在對立的雙方（動物保護者與警察）之間，常因此無法理性就政策細節進行討論，而得出有意義的方案，對此，本文也將以本研究進行的過程為例，說明類似這種「道德性政策」的規劃與設計，若是採用「審議民主」精神來進行研究設計，將更容易透過調查來獲得政策的結論。困難之二，來自於動物保護機制的建立，是高度專業與技術性的行政組織問題，除須考慮功能性以外，政治系絡也是不可或缺的考慮因素。
本文將先檢閱國內外可參考的資訊，建立了十種可能的動物保護警察機制。其次，本文將有效處理動保虐待案件的功能性，以及機制設計時須考量的政治系絡，這兩面向共二十四個需思考的標準，作為分析動物保護警察機制可行性分析的基礎。最後，本文將進一步提出可行的政策建議。

In Taiwan, numerous brutal animal abuse incidents have escalated the public demand for active government intervention and prompted animal protection organizations to push for the establishment of an animal protection police corps. However, the Taiwanese government is yet able to meet the strong public demand mainly owing to two difficulties. The first is that opposing parties involved in the development of morality-related policies（in this case, animal protection organizations and the police）often fail to discuss with each other rationally and reach a common ground because of their adherence to certain values. For this, the present author used the process of this study as an example to make a point that deliberative democracy is an investigative approach that can make the development of a morality-related policy smoother. The other difficulty is that animal protection mechanisms entail highly professional and technical administrative considerations. Therefore, aside from functionality, political context is a factor that must be addressed. For this, the present author referenced the literature to conceive ten possible mechanisms for the animal protection police corps, and then examined their viability from functionality and political context dimensions, which encompassed 24 criteria. The results were integrated to present viable suggestions for policy makers.