The experience of a mainland police officer

In early April, I noticed that several photos from my phone were missing. That's a photo I took during training, and it's one of the few photos I've saved.

I rummaged through all the storage space on my phone, and finally found a high-definition preview photo with a watermark "! The picture has expired or has been cleaned up" in the chat log. I took a screenshot and saved it.

One of them is a large group photo of group training. In the gray-blue-toned photo, people dressed in black and white are neatly lined up in front of a white building, and the red ground exposed at the bottom left of the photo reminds you that this is not a black and white photo. From a shooting point of view, the photographer was clearly standing at the front left of the line when he pressed the shutter button. Beyond that, it's hard to discern any more detail from the photo, and people are highly assimilated into a blur.

I still remember that it was a cloudy day in March 2020, just the first few days of training. At that time, the epidemic control in various places was slightly relaxed, and the training camps that had been suspended for a long time were resumed in full swing. This time, our mission has also "advanced with the times" from a single riot control to a combination of riot control and epidemic prevention.

It was just an ordinary day. The content of our training that day was zipper training, simulating the process from receiving the task of epidemic prevention and riot control, to immediately rushing to the scene by car, and finally to the disposal.

Ideally, we'd need to be on our toes and get a quick fix; but in reality—everyone would be better in front of the camera—we're still in a mess. This has a lot to do with our attire - we need a large white protective suit over the uniform jacket, a black tactical vest over the suit, and the front pocket of the tactical vest is stuffed with all the distribution Police equipment (baton, handcuffs, flashlight, spray, fire extinguisher, police ambulance kit, etc.), a gas mask on the back, a huge riot helmet on the head, a shield in the hand, and a He was wearing bulky black riot boots.

Due to the epidemic, the riot suits we used to wear were replaced with protective suits. Perhaps in the opinion of the leaders, the mix of protective clothing and tactical vests fully reflects our training goal of "advance with the times" - the combination of epidemic prevention and riot prevention, showing our "foolproof" training method. However, most of the girls in the team are petite, and the clothes they get are men's one-size-fits-all. Our bodies are covered by fat clothes, and most of our faces are buried in the tight protection of protective clothing caps, riot helmets and masks, and only our eyes are exposed. Heavy clothing greatly limits the range of motion of our heads. If we want to observe the situation around us, we must turn the whole body to drive the rotation of the head.

This time, we needed to put on our gear before arriving at the destination, and we also put on anti-epidemic suits and anti-riot vests before departure. But wearing airtight clothing on a half-hour-plus drive is a grind. Therefore, most people took off the riot vests and put them on their laps, unzipped the anti-epidemic clothes, and put them loosely on their bodies; when the car stopped, everyone hurriedly put on their clothes and got out of the car and went to the luggage rack. Look for their shields; people who often miss equipment go back to their cars and continue to rummage.

In non-zip training, we are more casual. The 50 seater bus carried about 30 people and all of our belongings (we threw all our gear in the car to reduce duplication of handling) and apart from the 30 fixed empty seats and aisles, the full car was nowhere to be found A place to stay. Armor suits and helmets are piled on empty seats, in the aisles, small items (gas masks, riot vests, batons, fire extinguishers...) are stuffed into the roof racks, in the compartment pockets on the backs of the seats, shields One is stacked one on top of the other in the luggage rack of the body. In a small space, it is difficult for us to use our skills to find and wear the equipment, and everyone has also formed a consensus on arriving at the scene and wearing it again. I can't remember if there was a disposal process that day, but it really doesn't matter, what matters is being filmed. "Stand up straight!" the leader of the team shouted from the front, and everyone straightened their chests in a conditioned reflex - fortunately, their facial expressions have been covered. "Crack" - we were recorded by the camera, in the photo we were uniformly dressed and lined up neatly, and our training results were fully displayed. We often disrupted the order of the lines on our own, and the scene was so chaotic that I could no longer remember who the teammates were around me. The picture memory of that time is just a giant helmet, it occupied most of my field of vision, and I never knew whether the helmet that was blocked in my field of vision and then blocked in my memory belonged to who.

Outside of zipper training, we just repeat the training subjects tirelessly. We practice marching in line, turn left and turn right, and walk in unison; we practice fighting movements, straight left and right hook, left flick and right whip; we practice riot control, left block and right slash, upper block and bottom slap ; We practiced the slogans "One, Two, Three, Four", "Hum, Ha, Coax", "Listen to the party's command, you can win the battle. Use me in the first battle, and use me to win."

The most important thing in training is consistency. In order to be consistent, punches and kicks need to pause in the air for tens of seconds to form muscle memory - yes, muscles need memory, but you don't need thinking. When the movement is stagnant, the "leaders" (department leaders, brigade leaders, sub-leaders, squad leaders and even temporarily appointed teachers) will shuttle in the queue to inspect. A person who can achieve uniformity is excellent, and a good person can get more rest time; and inconsistent movements are wrong, and mistakes will be pointed out and corrected. "Raise your feet a little higher" and "open your hands a little bit". Under authoritative demonstration and guidance, the strange hands and legs are like the hands in a clock, moving and rotating according to the will of the time-adjusting knob. "Yeah. That's right, that's it! Remember this feeling!" The person in command finally nodded with satisfaction, showed a gratified smile, and stomped to the next person.

Since entering the police (or even earlier), our actions have been corrected again and again, and unconditional obedience to orders has become the code of conduct. The queue commander will confidently say "there are no wrong instructions, only wrong actions"; in the uploaded and distributed promotional copy, "obedience" is regarded as an important professional quality; when the subordinate has objections, the leader will say "this is the In public security work, you have to understand and overcome difficulties." Although I don't know why, it is also the most commonly used and best used rhetoric. It can almost be said that "obedience" is the principle that guides all our work. Correspondingly, the ubiquitous symbol of hierarchy always shows everyone's hierarchical position in this system, reminding people of lower rank to obey those of higher rank. From the color of the shirt that can be seen at a glance (leaders above the division level wear white shirts, and the rest wear blue shirts) and police rank signs, to the approval authority at work, title, salary, and personal privileges in daily interactions, etc. Wait. This is also reflected in the large training. Leaders have absolute power over their subordinates, and their will is communicated to us layer by layer through microphones, loudspeakers or documents stamped with red seals. We are the receivers and executors of orders; and the documents we have the right to sign are only During the training, the policewoman even signed a promise not to get pregnant and not to delay the training mission (a female detachment leader temporarily dropped out of training due to pregnancy); the police rank symbol on her shoulders is that of her unfamiliar colleagues. The method of identifying people from time to time is also the standard for leadership selection and appointment; people who are close to the squad leader have more privileges and convenience than others, it is easier for him/them to be lazy or ask for leave, and the information is more well-informed; In life, big leaders live in luxury hotel suites, have free working hours, travel in exclusive cars, and enjoy more hearty meals—and it is natural for leaders to enjoy privileges. Nevertheless, it is necessary for everyone to voluntarily devote themselves to the training work. The annual salary of a first-level police officer is about 30w, which is less than the salary. The salary is the main driving force for most people to work. Even if they resist the training, they will not say they want to leave. In addition, it is essential to compete for the best and the best: daily comparisons of pacesetters and excellent dormitories are carried out daily, and non-party members with good performance are opened to join the party quickly, and the number of merit awards is much more than in other units. ; We also have to participate in regular democratic life meetings, heart-to-heart exchange meetings and monthly birthday parties, watch patriotic education videos collectively, and listen to advanced deeds and touching stories of teammates around us; filming is even more uninterrupted, and every bit of our work is recorded. After coming down, accompanied by magnificent music, passionate words and bloody pictures, it came to us again. We mobilized various senses to generate self-imagination, and we were moved by such a self.

Pull back your thoughts and go back to the photo at the beginning. It was the one that awakened many of my memories and reminded me that those memories will disappear. So, I finally started writing this memory. During training, I have some brief schedule notes, which can also help me recall the situation in the early days of training; I rarely take photos of myself, and I think the photos are like evidence, but I found some related videos and photos on the Internet. I reorganized the text, photos and my memories, hoping to restore the situation as much as possible.