{"id":390,"date":"2010-07-09T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:37:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:37:26","slug":"pickpockets-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-tourist-traps\/pickpockets-in-beijing","title":{"rendered":"Pickpockets in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Plan your <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/travel_tips\/\">Beijing travel<\/a><\/strong>? Be vigilant\u00a0about pickpockets! Pickpockets, like croaches, die hard. The thieves in Beijing\u00a0are no exception\u00a0like every large city in the world. The most endangered places are public bus lines, subways, airport, popular tourist spots and shopping centers as well. These crowded places are where pickpockets often cruise around. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Tourists both domestic and international are\u00a0the main\u00a0targets and\u00a0preys of the local pickpockets. Unfamiliar with the new\u00a0surroundings, tourists are hard to concentrate their attention to looking after their belongings. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These pickpockets usually work in teams.\u00a0Some of them\u00a0are in charge of stealing the money or the valubales, while the others are arranged to keep you busy and distract your concentration. Very often you become a victim of being sandwiched by these two group of thieves in good team work. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Though fortunately the local police are often there on these crowded places in civic disguise, you have to take care of yourself in most cases due to the fact that Beijing is so huge and the police don&#8217;t have sufficient man power to have total surveilance in these endangered places. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There is a special anti-pickpocket brigade at Beijing Security Bureau. These plainclothes police\u00a0are scattered at such pickpocket favored places as train stations, public bus stops and touristy spots. In the past 5 years approxi 22,000 thieves have been arrested in Beijing.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">If you are picked, or you find other being picked, or you have pickpocket clues, you are encouraged to call the anti-pickpocket hotline 110 or 64011327. If you find you are not in the good position to call the hotline in case you will be endangered, you are kindly reminded to send a text message to the anti-pickpoket hotline mobile &#8211; 13911991234. They will be on the spot within 20 minutes. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Again anti-pockpocket hotline:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Tel:110<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Tel: 64011327<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Cellphone: 13911991234<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Happy Travel in Beijing!<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arrest-a-thieve2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" title=\"arrest a thieve\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arrest-a-thieve2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arrest-a-thieve2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arrest-a-thieve2.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pickpocket is being arrested by a plainclothes police ( from huanqiu.com )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Plan your Beijing travel? Be vigilant\u00a0about pickpockets! Pickpockets, like croaches, die hard. The thieves in Beijing\u00a0are no exception\u00a0like every large city in the world. The most endangered places are public bus lines, subways, airport, popular tourist spots and shopping centers as well. These crowded places are where pickpockets often cruise around. \u00a0 Tourists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-beijing-tourist-traps","category-beijing-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}