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Minghu Junior High School (2005 CyberFair Project ID 4103)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
We estimate 6 student(s) from 14 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Within a multitude of police districts in Taipei City, we choose DaTong and ShiLin as our interviewees because they have their distinguishing characteristics.The areas under Datong Police District’s control represent the ostentatiously prosperous Taipei in the earlier generation. Each traditional community keeps deep local culture and history for Taipei City. On the other hand, ShiLin Police District covers a variety of things—night market famous at home and abroad, Tienmu with exotic flavor and Yanmingshan National Park, etc. Habitants are from different levels, too. The public security in a district significantly influences the life quality of people. What we try to explore is how local police district interact and help one another with local habitants.
Project Description: The topic we choose is the police in Taipei, the most representative of Taiwan. We choose police as the target of our project, as local police have the closest relationships and most frequent contact with the people among all civil servants. In our traditional image, police catch criminals, arrest drug dealers, smugglers and thieves, ban those who violate regulations and open tickets. They are “tough guys” to us. However, are they really so “tough?” Can they be warm and gentle? What is their interaction with people in daily lives? It is another part that we are going to explore in our project—the “tender” police that are rarely known to the public. It is our hope to make everybody better understand police and reduce the distance between the police and people. Our topic is not focused on the police’s feats, but on the “trifles” showing how the police interact with the locals and become their carers and friends, which characterizes the Taipei City Police.