A joint¹ policing project between China and Italy was presented Monday in Rome's historic Piazza² di Spagna.

 

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A group of 10 uniformed Chinese officers, both men and women, will be patrolling busy tourist areas in Rome, Florence, Naples, and Milan jointly³ with their Italian colleagues for the next 20 days.

 

The Chinese police officers will be unarmed, mostly on foot, and have received Italian language training before coming to Italy.

 

"Both the Italian and the Chinese sides believe this initiative to be very useful," Deputy Police Chief Antonino Cufalo told reporters at the foot of the Spanish Steps rising from the center of the piazza.

 

"It is one of the most positive channels through which to develop international cooperation," said the senior officer, adding that the project is based on "visibility".

 

"We are certain that for the Chinese present in Italy, as for Italians present in China, the fact of being able to see friendly uniforms is very important," Cufalo said of the joint patrol project that was first launched last year on an experimental basis.

 

The idea is to make Chinese tourists feel safer and more at ease. This seemed to be the case for a couple from Jiangsu Province, Li Dong and his wife Luo Weiqi, both 30, who were visiting Rome for the first time.

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