Don't call 110 - it makes a bad impression

Think before calling

Thinking of calling 110 to report a situation to the police? Think again. Today's Southern Weekly printed the following anecdote from "winyear," a Hangzhou resident who posted it to the paper's BBS:

A fine for calling 110?

My office gets burglarized a lot. There were two incidents in the past few days, so we called 110 to report them. The police were amazingly quick and immediately sent someone over to investigate. All told, there were three sets of cops: first, a team from the precinct office, then one from the 110 command center, and finally from the city PSB, which came to collect evidence or something.

The next day, someone from the station came down to fine us. The reason seemed to be that we had called 110 rather than calling them directly. Reading between the lines, it was probably because the 110 system was province-wide, so when we called, it aired the local precinct's dirty laundry and affected how their superiors evaluated them.

Later, I learned that this was due to a "joint deterrence agreement" signed last year (the agreement was not optional: every work unit in the precinct had to sign at the police station), and that things were run according to those rules. Apparently, we've got to think it over before calling 110 in the future.

This article is from Danwei.org

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