Fake Chinese Police Force

(Beijing, China) Real police have busted a fake Chinese police investigative force that has been operating for eight years. The Chinese Tianping Investigator Administration Bureau, led by Zhang Yiquan, is accused of swindling the public.

According to the police, "This company came to our attention in April. We went to the Ministry of Justice, and they told us that they do not have anything like an investigator administration bureau in their Ministry. Furthermore, the so-called bureau chief Zhang Yiquan was not an employee of theirs."

On October 16, 2008, the Beijing police went to the bureau office in Beijing. The police were surpsied: "I looked at what they were wearing. Wow! How come these are police uniforms? The only difference is in very small details."


The police report said that the workers wore imitation police uniforms that had shoulder badges, arm badges, chest insignia, identification numbers and lapels. Everything was exactly right except the words for "Police" were replaced by "Investigation." The police also recovered one pellet gun, two fake guns, four bullets, five knives, three electric stun guns, one pin-hole camera plus large numbers of fake identification kits (such as citizen IDs, General Press and Publication Administration press passes, special passes, and Ministry of Justice logos).

According to the police, "This organization has its own bureau chief, political commissar, deputy chiefs, labor union chairman, Communist Party branch secretary and so on. Their daily operations are completely identical to any other government department." Their job appointment records are also completely identical to government documents.

Since China is a bureaucratic governmental quagmire, the fake department apparently operated openly without complaints. The charade was only exposed when the fake department brazenly sued a newspaper for libel and the court said, "Who are these guys?"

It's pure comedy that the fake law enforcement department was able to operate for eight years armed with no real guns and four bullets.