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(6 Oct 2002)
1. Police Open Day with banner reading: "When there is danger, dial 110"
2. Crowd at open day
3. Boy posing with armed police
4. Mother taking picture
5. SWAT police posing with rifles
6. Rifles
7. Sniper rifle being passed along
8. Man looking through rifle sights
9. Minister of Public Security Bureau, Jia Chun-wang (right) and Beijing Public Security Bureau chief, Ma Chen-chuan
10. Police chiefs standing at display for internet crime unit
11. Internet sign
12. Police chiefs
13. Woman in bomb disposal suit being helped up
14. Woman in oversized helmet, putting on metal detector headphones
15. Policeman helping woman to grip metal detector to ground
16. Metal detector, tilt up to woman
17. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Unidentified policeman:
"All these things can be used in the Olympics and some of the equipments will be renewed. Some of the equipment here is old but we'll have it replaced with new ones."
18. Cutaway policeman and boy with metal detector
19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhang Guo Hong, Beijing resident:
"This is fun for me but for them, in a real situation, it should be quite dangerous."
20. Tilt up from bomb disposal robot to crowd
21. Man controlling robot through monitor
22. Close up on hands
23. Bag being lifted up by robot
24. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhu Yi Jun, Vice-department chief of anti-violence, security and inspection bureau:
"All of this is part of Beijing's effort to fight against terrorism and our duty is to work for this."
25. Various police marching by
26. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhen Qi, Beijing resident:
"I want to be a soldier but not a military officer. We have a saying: people who don't want to be a military officer are not a good soldier. I don't think this saying is completely correct."
27. Wide shot of police stand
28. Pan right of banner reading: "Police and citizens should work hard to ensure the safety of the 16th National People's Congress"
29. Vice-chairman Beijing Communist Party Legislative and Politics Committee, Qiang Wei, among crowd
30. Wide shot of Qiang walking away

STORYLINE

Beijing's police, long used to displays of force, put the force on display on Sunday at their first-ever open house, allowing the public - and foreign journalists - rare access to China's fast growing law enforcement agency.

From SWAT teams to bomb disposal units, officers gave the public a first hand experience of what it's like to handle a rifle or put on heavy bomb-proof equipment.

Though some effort was put to showcasing Beijing's latest crime-fighting technology, such as tackling
internet crime, much of the open day was devoted to putting a human face to the Public Security Bureau.

Members of the 50-thousand-strong force said they hoped the event would build trust with citizens and improve their image, tarnished by perceptions of corruption and brutality.

The open house seemed to go down well with the thousands of visitors who gathered in droves around the martial arts demonstrations and displays of high-tech equipment.

China's People's Liberation Army has traditionally been in charge of tackling major domestic security threats.

The Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 often serves as a brutal reminder of the measures the PLA is willing to take in the face of a perceived threat against the state and the Communist Party.

However, some observers say that increased spending in military technology means China is looking to create a more sophisticated, hi-tech army with off-shore capabilities.


China has an estimated police force of one point six (M) million - a ratio of one officer for every thousand civilians.


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