Police in Sershul County mobilise data collection of every household
The effort to gather every resident’s personal data has been facilitated by “Little Yellow Motorcycle”
Police in Sershul County has been mobilised to gather personal information about each of the county’s residents.
Image source: Niga Police Station’s official social media account
Traveling across the county by motorbike, the police have been contacting every household in the pastoral land, which is located in eastern Tibet.
A news report, published on 25 August by Niga Police Station’s official social media account, reported that auxiliary policemen went “... deep into the jurisdiction to carry out basic information collection and legal publicity into family work.”
Nomads and farmers who have lost their livelihoods after being relocated or resettled from their pastures have been recruited for this work on a “voluntary basis”.
Image source: Niga Police Station’s official social media account
The same report also stated that the "Micro-policing + Village Policing" (Ch: 微警务 + 村警务) were carried out with the help of “Little Yellow Motorcycle” (Ch: 小黄车), a service which enables them to easily reach the villages scattered across the pastureland. There have been other reports of the little yellow motorcycle being used in policing with 5G technology elsewhere in China.
Sershul (Ch:Shiqu) County is also the place, which, a year ago, saw waves of mass detentions, political indoctrination, and closure of social media groups that were reported by Tibet Watch and Tibetan media. More recently, two monks from a monastery in the same county were also sentenced to prison after being held in arbitrary detention and incommunicado for nearly two years.
This policing drive also promoted the “Fengqiao style police station”, a Maoist-era strategy of mobilising “revolutionary masses” to “re-educate” what the Chinese Communist Party categorised as “class enemies”. Resurrected in a 2013 speech by Xi Jinping as the “Fengqiao experience”, it was later integrated into the Ministry of Public Security’s nationwide campaign in 2019 by naming one hundred police stations across China- including Tibet- as a model of “Fengqiao-style police station”.