Chongqing is blanketing its streets with real-time computerized monitor towers and sending more police and security guards to schools in the latest move to ensure public security, Chongqing Evening News reported Tuesday.
The municipality's public security bureau said it's going to equip a force of 130,000 patrol police, build 500 seven-meter-high around-the-clock GPS-equipped monitor towers with 500,000 cameras on the streets up until next March.
Following a slew of attacks on school children this year, over 70 percent of middle and primary schools and kindergartens will have a special school police team -- at least a policeman, a security staffer and two security guards for every school, the report said.
5,222 police, 6,400 school security staffers and 40,000 security guards have been sent to schools so far in the municipality.
"To concerns of parents and families of the students, we'll spend 1.2 billion yuan to build up a school policing system to ensure the campus security," secretary of the Chongqing municipal CPC committee Bo Xilai was cited as saying in the report.
The police officers for schools are specially-trained in combat, and are experienced in emergency situations such as earthquakes and fire accidents. One standard for all recruits is their ages – male police should be over 55 years old, and females 53 years old.
--By Du Wenjuan (chinadaily.com.cn),2010-07-06 11:46