China has ordered its police to behave well and improve their
services to the public as the country marks the one-year countdown
to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The Ministry of Public Security has launched a one-year
inspection campaign in Beijing and other cities hosting Olympic
events as well as major tourist cities to ensure a polite, standard
and efficient police services to citizens and foreign visitors.
The inspection mainly deals with police who take a bad attitude
towards the public and do not wear standard uniforms and
insignia.
An inspection team will oversee police service departments such
as community police stations, traffic police brigades, patrolling
cops, border entrance and exit offices, reception rooms for
foreigners, border checkpoints, visa application centers and police
alarm "110" phones.
Police who smoke, chew food, chat or use chilly words in front
of the public will be immediately punished by inspectors on the
spot, says the ministry, adding the inspection team will find out
whether the police can take proper, immediate and effective actions
when the public, especially foreigners, ask for help.
The campaign, which is a part of the overall Olympic security
deployment, is aimed at maintaining a sound order for the upcoming
congress of the Communist Party of China and the Olympic Games next
August, and setting a good image of the Chinese police, according
to the ministry.
(Xinhua News Agency August 6, 2007)