Police told to watch manners

Police officers are in the spotlight following the launch on Saturday of a nationwide campaign to improve their behavior ahead of next year's Olympics.

Spearheaded by the Ministry of Public Security, the campaign will assess the behavior of on-duty officers, particularly those working in public areas and policing large-scale events.

"Police inspectors, both uniformed and plainclothes, will monitor mostly community, traffic and patrol police, to see how they behave when people ask them for help," the ministry's spokesman Wu Heping, said.