New Taipei City is moving its police command center into a new government building and merging it with fire, traffic, and other city control rooms — good news for response times, neutral for everyone else.

• The Sanchong municipal building takes over as the city's joint command hub, with handover of the property by the end of November and departments moving in by the end of December.
• Fire, police, traffic, food safety, and road management control centers will all sit under one roof and share data.
• Mayor Hou Yu-ih wants police dispatch tied directly to the traffic signal system so pursuits and roadblocks are not run by separate departments working at cross purposes.
• Fire department dispatch time has already dropped from 90 seconds to 20 seconds, and police are expected to match that pace using AI in the dispatch system.
• Current rules give police 10 minutes to reach a scene in city traffic; the new setup is meant to beat that.

Outlook: The building should be fully staffed by the end of the year, with the AI-assisted police dispatch system rolling out after the move.