Justice
Chinese Police Are Patrolling the Streets of Italy
The experimental plan is the first of its kind in the world.
Sending the police in to banish centurions from outside the Coliseum last month clearly wasn’t enough for the city of Rome. Now Italy’s capital has introduced a new force to patrol its most famous ancient monument: police officers brought in from China.
In the first ever arrangement of this kind with a European state (despite some initial discussions two years ago about creating a similar scheme in Paris), the People’s Republic of China has sent four law enforcement officers to patrol major tourist areas in Italy’s two largest cities, Rome and Milan, for an experimental two-week trial.