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As preparation for its hosting of five events in this year's APEC summit, Beijing continues to tighten loose ends in the security aspect of the important November event.
China's capital city has been working on the redeployment of police officers since 2013. The Beijing Public Security Bureau said Monday that they have increased the number of assigned officers in Huairou district to ensure security even in the mountain areas.
According to the bureau's statement, Huairou district's Tanghekou police station has received more forces to cover the four townships where 300 villages are located.
Particulars for the security preparation include reassigning officers from other stations to Tanghekou; requiring each town to hire more than five security guards to add to the force; and allocating traffic, forest protection and firefighting units to the district.
"To guarantee that APEC is safe enough, the new police team of the mountain areas worked hard in the annual two sessions in March and the past National Day holiday. It can work well," Zhang said.
Zhang noted that the dispatched police officers are around 35 years old, are all men, are physically excellent and are good at investigation.
To complement the forces, the bureau installed more electronic cameras that will send clear images to the sub-bureau real-time, as well as assigned a "movable security inspection team" that is tasked to resolve on-field cases immediately.
Further, police dogs are employed to patrol places that will be used for the meetings.
"The security arrangements and scale put it on a par with the 2008 Olympics, so we must take it as the top priority," said Yu Jiang, Dongcheng district's police dog team head.
