Xinjiang to add 5000 fresh police officers to avoid July 2009-like riots
February 4th, 2010 - 6:15 pm ICT by ANIUrumqi (China), Feb 4(ANI): The Chinese Government has approved a plan to recruit 5,000 special police officers in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to help prevent unrests such as the devastating riot on July 5 last year.
Director of the regional public security bureau Zhu Changjie said the new recruits will be civil servants under the Xinjiang regional public security bureau and their area of operations will cover the entire region.
“It will be the largest recruitment campaign of its kind in Xinjiang and all new recruits, after a month of intensive training, will serve alongside special police officers seconded from other provinces,” The China Daily quoted Changjie, as saying.
“We expect them to be on patrol independently at the end of March,” he added.
More than 3,600 people, mainly decommissioned soldiers and college graduates, have been enlisted after a strict screening procedure that includes written exams, interviews and physical fitness tests.
Meanwhile, Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu expressed his appreciation for police officers who had resolutely fought to maintain public security since the July 5 riot, in which 197 people died and more than 1,700 were injured.
“The overall situation in Xinjiang is stable and improving, with production and people’s lives back to normal,” Meng said.
“We must be alert to the complex task of maintaining public stability in Xinjiang as hostile forces will not resign themselves to failure and may deliberately seek all possible opportunities to stage new destructive activities,” he added.
Meng warned the region’s police to be fully aware that the fight would be long-term, arduous and complex. (ANI)
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