Citizens assist police in their work

GUANGZHOU: She is not a police officer.

But the 21-year-old college student, who is named B17KG online, was on the scene in Foshan's Zhumiao Road on Sunday to help local police catch two theft suspects.

"It was the first time for me to see real guns, with which police reacted so quickly and caught the thieves," said the student, who pretended to be a police officer's lover in spotting the thieves.