Honoring courage in the line of duty
China DailyWe Are Criminal Police, a popular TV series inspired by real-life events, recounts 15 infamous cases, including one where police officers investigate the rape and murder of a teenage girl in the snowy wilderness. Over four years ago, director Hui Kaidong first laid eyes on the script of the TV series We Are Criminal Police, and was immediately drawn to its authentic and unembellished storytelling. Commissioned by the News Media Center of the Ministry of Public Security, the program stirred his memories of a critically acclaimed 1999 drama based on a real-life case — which involved a police officer's tragic death in a car crash — leading to the theft of his service pistol and triggering a gripping sequence of events in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in 1997. "When I was filming the 1990s drama, I lived with the police officers who solved the case in Xi'an for several months.
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Honoring courage in the line of duty
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