A University of Macau (UM) security guard named Zhou Jianqiang yesterday (6 March) received the Good Citizen Award from the Macao Public Security Police Force (CPSP) on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the CPSP for successfully catching a thief on the UM campus.
Zhou saw a suspicious-looking man climbing over the fences on the platform of the seventh floor while patrolling the postgraduate houses yesterday noon. Zhou demanded to see the man’s identity document and found that the picture on the student card produced by the man looked different from the man’s appearance, so Zhou caught the man and called the police. Later the police found on the man several identity documents believed to belong to other people. The man is now in police custody.
A postgraduate student surnamed Zhang from the Faculty of Law, who is one of the victims of the thief, says, ‘I felt very afraid after discovering that someone had broken in and stolen my stuff. Thank God the security guard caught the thief.’ Later Zhou and the student appeared in court together to testify against the suspect.
Zhou has been working at UM as an outsourced security guard for approximately half a year and he comes from Zhuhai. Living in a strange city himself, Zhou says he understands what it feels like for the students to be far away from home, so he takes his patrol job seriously. ‘I watch the students come in and out of the building every day, and I know almost all their faces,’ Zhou says. ‘When I see suspicious-looking people trying to follow the students into the building, I would ask to see their identity to make sure they are really students. ’ Zhou says he plans to learn some kungfu moves so he could better protect the students.
Source: Communications Office
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