Hsieh Ing-dan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Taiwanese police officer
Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1949
Place of Birth: Changhua County, Taiwan Province
Profession: police officer
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Hsieh Ing-dan
- Hsieh Ing-dan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Xiè YÃndang; born 28 September 1949) is a Taiwanese police officer. Hsieh was born on 28 September 1949, and raised in Changhua County.
- He began study of administrative management in 1967, at what became Central Police University.
- Hsieh joined the Nantou County Police Department's Criminal Investigation Corps as a junior detective after graduation.
- In 1981, he was assigned to the equivalent division of the Taichung City Police Department and promoted to lieutenant.
- The following year, Hsieh received another promotion, to captain.
- In 1985, Hsieh was named a precinct director within Taichung.
- The next year, Hsieh joined the Criminal Investigation Bureau, a division of the National Police Agency (NPA), with the rank of lieutenant.
- By 1987, the CIB had promoted Hsieh to captain.
- Soon after, Hsieh accepted an assignment as chief of Taipei City Police Department's Criminal Investigation Corps.
- He became commissioner of the Yilan County Police Department in 1989, leaving in 1993 to return to the NPA as head of the Administration Section.
- Following his second stint at the NPA, Hsieh served as head of the Taoyuan County Police Department.
- Between 1996 and 1997, Hsieh was deputy leader of the Taiwan Provincial Government's police department.
- Within the NPA, Hsieh was promoted to chief inspector.
- Hsieh led the Kaohsiung City Police Department between 1997 and 2001.
- While with the Kaohsiung City Police Department, Hsieh worked to solve the assassination of Lan Chen-yuan, a former member of the Kaohsiung County Council.Hsieh was appointed a deputy director of the National Police Agency in February 2001, serving alongside Liu Shih-lin and Hung Sheng-kun.
- In this position, Hsieh aided efforts to locate politician Chu An-hsiung.
- Hsieh was recruited to join the Democratic Progressive Party in 2002.
- In April 2004, the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration named Hsieh the director of the National Police Agency.
- Upon assuming leadership of the NPA, Hsieh pledge to combat fraud.
- After Hsieh met with other government agency executives later that month, he announced that the National Police Agency set up a hotline dedicated to reports of fraud.
- A protest occurred at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in April 2005, as Lien Chan left Taiwan to participate in the 2005 Pan–Blue visits to mainland China.
- The Kuomintang and People First Party called for several resignations, including that of Hsieh from the National Police Agency.
- Vice Minister of the Interior Lin Yung-chien elected to step down, but supported the retention of Hsieh.
- Hsieh later announced that he would be at CKS Airport on 3 May, when Lien was scheduled to return.
- The day after Lien's return, fifteen Democratic Progressive Party legislators went to see Hsieh at the National Police Agency to discuss police actions at the airport on 3 May.
- The lawmakers were unable to meet with Hsieh, and subsequently disrupted NPA headquarters by flipping tables, and throwing water bottles in protest.
- Hou You-yi was appointed to replace Hsieh as director of the NPA in February 2006.
- Hsieh was subsequently named president of Central Police University, serving until 2008, when he was again succeeded by Hou.
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