Out on patrol while others celebrate
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When Wang Jiaqin resigned from a bank 12 years ago, she had it in mind to become a police officer dealing with crime. But she was assigned to work in a remote village as a community police officer and remains there to this day.
Wang works in Guangrong Village on Changxing Island, 30 kilometers from her home in Yangpu District. She鈥檚 used to being on duty during the Chinese New Year holiday 鈥 she will do the same this year.
鈥淢y work is undistinguished and, to some extent, trivial, but I love working in the community of loving people for their safety,鈥 she said. 鈥淛anuary 24 is just a normal date for me, because the residents鈥 safety and the community鈥檚 harmony are as important as any other day of the year.鈥
The village, in the northwest of Changxing Island, covers 4.3 square kilometers and has 3,500 residents.
Wang鈥檚 daily job is to patrol the village and its rivers, deal with reports from residents and educate them on keeping safe. She is known to be a careful observer who responds efficiently to people鈥檚 needs.
On the morning of December 24 last year, she discovered an illegal food shop where snacks were being made in unsanitary conditions.
鈥淭here are a lot of migrant workers in our village and the food products were mostly sold to them,鈥 she said.
She reported the case to her superiors, and the authorities suspended the shop.
As the village is in the protection area of the Qingcaosha reservoir, a key drinking water resource for Shanghai, ecological safety is one of her major missions.
Illegal slaughterhouse
Last September, as Wang was patrolling the village, she noticed that members of a family became nervous when seeing her passing and quickly closed their windows. After investigation, she found the family were running an illegal slaughterhouse with more than 2,000 chickens, ducks and pigeons, a possible cause of water pollution.
She filed a report and the slaughterhouse was closed.
鈥淢y former colleagues are paid twice as much as I am, but I don鈥檛 regret my career choice because what I do is important to the people I serve,鈥 Wang said.
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