Blow your whistle when you see a terrorist

Information Times
August 6, 2008

The August 4 terrorist attack in Kashgar and the two-day-away Olympic Games guarantee that security precautions in China and especially Beijing are going to be really tight for the next few days.

Today, the front page of Information Times, a Guangzhou based newspaper, printed a big photo of a taxi driver in Guangzhou displaying his newly-acquired counter-terrorist equipment: a whistle.

According to the newspaper, over thirty thousand taxi drivers in Guangzhou have signed up to volunteer in a "Safe Olympic Monitor" campaign. Volunteer monitors, who are mostly bus and taxi drivers, are required to report any suspicious incidents to the police immediately. Each of them was issued a whistle so they can blow it as well as call the 110 emergency number.

The volunteer driver monitors are also required to "blow the whistle" on other taxi drivers who "don't look in a stable mental state." The authorities offer financial rewards to encourage such whistle-blowing behavior.

This article is from Danwei.org

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