Cheating cops busted by kid patrol
| July 31, 2009 | 5:01 AM
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And a child shall police them.
The heat was on for law enforcement officers taking promotion exams in northwestern China this week, and not just because of test anxiety.
Eighteen fifth-graders were recruited to walk the beat during the tests, to make sure that any cheaters would be apprehended. And the students appear to have taken the case seriously — more than their adult predecessors had, at least.
Wearing blue and white school uniforms, the children strolled up and down the aisles to monitor 265 police officers who were taking the exams in Gansu province. The kids identified 25 alleged cheaters, whose tests were thrown out.
Competition was fierce during the test because the officers were competing for only 66 jobs — district-level judge, prosecutor and investigator positions. The experiment of using child monitors was carried out after adult supervisors were found to be looking the other way on cheating, instead of arresting that behavior, officials said.
You might say the would-be promotion thieves were brought down by the kid blue line.
Read more at miamiherald.com.
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