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Police Jump on the Blogging Bondwogon 　　WHO says Internet bloggingis the domain of indepen-dent free-wheelers? Thepolice authority of XiamenCity in coastal Fujian Province put awanted poster on its micro-blog askingfor public assistance to locate a suspectin a ease of ehfld murder.That was No-vember 23,2010,and only six days laterthe suspect was caught thanks to infor-mation gathered on the net.The incidentis part of a growing trend to develop thepotential of online policing functions,with authorities using the latest technolo-gies to upgrade services and foster usefulinteraction with the public.Since Chinasfirst police blog was opened in Zhaoqing,Guangdong Province on February 2010,hundreds of such examples have poppedup all over the nation. 　　 　　Public-Assisted Policing 　　 　　The police micro-blog opens a con-venient and express channel for citizensto assist and monitor police work; thispush-pull media function and the result-ing transparency on policing activity hasturned out to be a powerful addition tothe arsenal of police functions.On Au-gust 23,2010 someone left a messageon the Beijing Police micro-blog report-ing young panhandlers in a ChaoyangDistrict neighborhood; the group weresuspected of being manipulated by adultleaders.The information was immedi-ately passed to relevant departments,and by the afternoon of the next daythe beggars had been taken to a home-less shelter.The officers swift responsewas praised by visitors to the blog,whohailed the use of conversation in virtualspace as a wellspring of solutions to realworld problems. 　　After a festival stampede killed over3o0 people in Cambodia in November2010,the police blog maintained by He-bei Province promptly uploaded an illus-trated piece on self-protection in chaoticcrowd situations.Within minutes it at-tracted considerable web traffic,and wastransmitted thousands of times in justthree hours,accompanied by commentscalling the post highly practical. 　　 　　Humanity and Relevance 　　 　　The pu