How to become a Bailiff and Correctional Officer
Official title: Bailiff and Correctional Officers
Judicial police and correctional officers serve documents, carry out arrests, attend court and escort people in custody for courts and prosecutors' offices, or supervise, guard and keep order among inmates in prisons, detention centres, juvenile detention houses and juvenile reformatories.
Main tasks
- Manage workshops in correctional institutions such as prisons, detention centres, juvenile detention houses and reformatories; search inmates, supervise visits, escort inmates to outside medical care or home for funerals, and keep their valuables
- Regularly patrol cells and the institution's perimeter, check doors, windows and locks, and watch inmates' conduct during work, exercise and recreation to prevent incidents
- Arrest and escort offenders to courts, prisons, detention centres and similar places
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Demand for Service and sales jobs is projected at about 2,220,000 in 2024 and about 2,287,000 in 2030. (+3%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
Is a Bailiff and Correctional Officer a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Bailiff and Correctional Officer?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026