In recent years, the Enshi Public Security Bureau has kept its mission firmly in mind, focused on the central tasks, served the overall situation, and closely aligned itself with the requirements of the Prefectural Party Committee, the Prefectural Government, and the Party Committee of the Provincial Public Security Department. Grounded in practical work, the bureau has put into practice the philosophy that "our officers themselves are a scenic highlight, performing our duties is serving the public, and enforcing the law is safeguarding the community." It is wholeheartedly building a "tourism-oriented policing model for mountainous regions," thereby contributing police strength to Enshi's efforts to become a demonstration zone for innovative practices in the "Two Mountains" concept and to accelerate its development into a world-class tourist destination. The Enshi Prefectural Public Security Bureau, in collaboration with the Enshi Daily, is now launching a series of reports titled "Beautiful Scenery, Excellent Police." Stay tuned!
　　During the Sanfu period, Enshi Prefecture—known for its beautiful mountains and enchanting scenery—enters its peak season for tourism and health retreats, attracting a large influx of visitors. In the first half of this year, the prefecture welcomed 49.12 million tourist visits and generated total tourism revenue of 34.5 billion yuan.
　　Behind the booming and widely acclaimed growth of Enshi Prefecture’s tourism market, which is flourishing in multiple areas, lies the unwavering security support provided by public security authorities.
　　People wander amidst the paintings, while police officers stand guard amid the scenery. As guardians of Quzhou’s economic and social development, the Quzhou Public Security Bureau, grounded in the realities of tourism-driven economic growth, upholds and develops the “Fengqiao Experience” for the new era, focusing on “tourism-oriented policing.” With meticulous and thoughtful service, it ensures a pleasant tourism environment for visitors and wholeheartedly strives to create a “mountain-region version of tourism policing.”
　　“Guarding + Service”
　　“The police have been deployed to the grassroots level to provide security for tourism—We’ve already been enjoying our trip in Enshi for several days. The scenery here is beautiful, and we often see the presence of public security officers, which gives us a real sense of safety,” said Mr. Wang, a tourist from Anhui, who was visiting Enshi’s Dixin Valley on the afternoon of July 31st, visibly delighted.
　　Since the start of summer, the Dixin Valley Scenic Area and Huaxi Valley Health & Wellness Town in Enshi have seen a significant increase in visitors seeking relief from the heat. The average daily visitor count has risen to between 6,000 and 10,000 people, with more than 100 tour buses making round-trip shuttle runs each day to transport tourists.
　　Police respond promptly to changing situations. The Jiànshǐ County Public Security Bureau has assigned additional police officers to support the Gāopíng Police Station. The Gāopíng Police Station has deployed its maximum police force and stepped up patrols and security measures across the entire scenic area. Police officers and auxiliary police are on duty around the clock in the scenic area, doing their utmost to ensure the safety of tourists.
　　▲ Officers from the Gaoping Police Station of the Jianshi County Public Security Bureau are patrolling the Enshi Dixin Valley Scenic Area. Health and wellness tourism for escaping the summer heat is a distinctive advantage of Enshi’s tourism industry. From June to October each year, this period is the peak season. Not only do large numbers of tourists come to check in and take photos, but many “migratory” visitors also head to places like Sumadang in Lichuan, Yesanguan in Badong, Gaoping and Huaping in Jianshi to enjoy health-focused retreats and cool off. At its peak, the number of visitors exceeds 1 million—accounting for one-quarter of the entire prefecture’s permanent population.
　　Since the start of the summer travel season on July 1, Lichuan Railway Station has gradually welcomed over 200,000 passengers coming to enjoy leisure trips and escape the heat. The traffic police and special police units of the Lichuan Public Security Bureau have deployed officers around the clock to provide security at and around the railway station.
　　▲ The Longping Police Station of the Jianshi County Public Security Bureau has entered scenic areas to carry out publicity on anti-telecom and fraud measures. A relevant official from the Prefecture Public Security Bureau explained that, in order to strengthen grassroots policing and effectively handle large tourist flows, public security organs across the prefecture are implementing the Three-Year Action Plan for Strengthening Police Stations in the New Era. This involves deploying more police resources from county and city-level public security bureaus to police stations, and further positioning police forces at the community level. This creates a policing model that integrates “protection” and “service” in parallel, ensuring that sufficient personnel are available during periods of surging tourist numbers to promptly respond to incidents involving tourists and scenic areas—promptly accepting reports, swiftly handling cases, and immediately forwarding them to relevant functional departments. Any acts constituting illegal or criminal activities will be rigorously investigated and dealt with according to law, providing all-around security guarantees for tourists throughout their entire travel experience: food, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment.
　　The joint patrol by the “Police, Road, and Tourism” team ensures the safety of tourists traveling through Enshi, where many highways wind their way around mountains, through tunnels, and across valleys—making them immensely popular among self-driving enthusiasts. Providing tourists with safe and high-quality services is a key focus of tourism-related policing work.
　　On July 25, the Traffic Police Brigade of Enshi City Public Security Bureau, the City Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade for Transportation, and the City Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade for Cultural and Tourism Markets jointly launched a joint law enforcement model integrating "Public Security Traffic Management + Transportation + Cultural and Tourism." Through the "Police-Road-Tourism" joint patrol mechanism, they will continue to carry out in-depth and comprehensive rectification efforts to maintain order in the tourism market.
　　On the morning of August 4, the Enshi Grand Canyon scenic area welcomed approximately 22,000 visitors, surpassing its peak capacity, and the area was packed with people. Around 11:00 a.m., Ms. Zheng, a tourist from Hunan, approached Officer Tan Zhen from the traffic police brigade, who was conducting a joint patrol under the "Police-Road-Tourism" initiative nearby, and reported that she had become separated from her 6-year-old son. Officer Tan Zhen immediately activated the "Police-Road-Tourism" joint patrol mechanism, mobilizing emergency search efforts involving traffic police, transportation authorities, and cultural tourism agencies. Ten minutes later, officers located the lost child in the square in front of the scenic area.
　　▲ Police officers from the Enshi Public Security Bureau are on duty at the Nü'erhui festival site, ensuring the safety of tourists. Since June, Enshi Prefecture has launched a three-month special campaign to enhance road traffic safety for tourism during the summer. The public security, transportation, and culture and tourism departments have established a coordinated joint-operation mechanism for key tourist routes, making every effort to reduce traffic violations and road accidents involving tourism.
　　“We closely monitor traffic flow entering En, holding daily analysis meetings to ensure police resources are deployed according to the ‘situation’ on the ground,” said a responsible official from the Prefecture Public Security Traffic Administration.
　　Extend our reach, bringing services right to tourists—scenery along the way, police by your side.
　　“Thank you for saving my life!” On July 29, Ms. Huang, a tourist from Chongqing, presented a banner to the traffic police officers on duty at the Traffic Police Brigade of Lichuan Public Security Bureau.
　　On July 18, Ms. Huang, who was taking a summer vacation in Sumadang, suddenly fainted and collapsed while walking. Officers Liu Lang and Luo Changman from the First Order Squad of the Traffic Police Brigade of Lichuan Public Security Bureau, who were on duty at the intersection, immediately drove a police car to take Ms. Huang to the hospital for treatment.
　　Since the start of the summer travel season, Lichuan—the “Cool City”—has welcomed over 300,000 vacationers seeking relief from the heat. The Lichuan Public Security Bureau has launched a tourism policing model dubbed “Police in Scenic Spots,” where officers diligently serve as tour guides and transform into “living maps.”
　　▲ Officers from the Moudao Sub-bureau of the Lichuan Public Security Bureau, accompanied by trainee officers, conducted patrols in Qiyueshan Mountain. Throughout the region, public security organs have established and improved a comprehensive management system for tourist attractions through scenic-area police stations, service centers, and mobile police vehicles, bringing services directly to tourists.
　　The Mufu Police Station, located in the Enshi Grand Canyon Scenic Area, has dispatched officers deep into hotels, guesthouses, mountain homestays, and rural households across its jurisdiction. They are working to establish a new security and prevention network—referred to as the "1+51+X" model—comprising one resident police officer serving as coordinator, 51 village group leaders acting as assistants, and an unspecified number of "X" informants including scenic area staff. This innovative policing approach ensures that conflicts and disputes are promptly identified and addressed on a case-by-case basis, emergency calls are responded to immediately, and assistance services are available anytime, anywhere. By extending police presence to every corner of the scenic area, this model has achieved zero incidents involving tourism-related cases or events and has successfully mediated 100% of tourism-related disputes.
　　In the first half of this year, the number of administrative and public security-related police cases handled by public security organs across the state decreased by 9.15% year-on-year.
　　Shining the “Tourism Policing” brand: In the command center hall of the State Public Security Bureau, a miniature map of the entire state’s 24,000-square-kilometer area, along with real-time records of public security alarms and the distribution of police forces, come vividly to life on the screen.
　　In 2023, the Prefecture Public Security Bureau collaborated with leading domestic technology companies to develop a police command and dispatch platform that is highly tailored to the actual needs of public security work in Enshi Prefecture. Utilizing real-time video, the platform analyzes and assesses daily pedestrian and vehicle flows in key scenic areas and critical road sections across the prefecture. It also focuses on sorting through tourism-related police incidents reported on the incident-handling platform and promptly relays this information to relevant departments.
　　The provincial public security bureau coordinates with departments including culture and tourism, transportation, meteorology, urban management, emergency response, water resources, and forestry to conduct a comprehensive analysis of 32 categories of data resources—such as hotel accommodations and scenic spot ticket reservations—that are connected to the integrated “situation-command-operation” command-and-control centers at both the provincial and county-level bureaus, as well as data from 14 external information systems. This analysis is cross-referenced with data from police platforms to identify key policing situations and cases, proactively forecast pedestrian and vehicle flows, and scientifically assess various tourism-related risks and hidden dangers. The goal is to establish an integrated information platform for tourism safety, enabling data interoperability and resource sharing.
　　At the police situation analysis and assessment meeting held by the state public security bureau, various police units focused on and discussed police cases involving culture and tourism, and produced analytical reports to provide data support for the Party committee and government’s scientific decision-making as well as for the frontline police stations and teams in their response and handling of such cases.
　　▲ Officers from the Pingba Ying Police Station of Xianfeng County Public Security Bureau reminded tourists visiting the Pingba Ying scenic area to pay attention to their safety. “The public security organs across the prefecture will continue to uphold a meticulous, refined, and perfectionist work ethic, leveraging the practical dedication of the iron-blooded public security forces to enhance the ‘tourism policing’ brand and vigorously contribute our public security wisdom and strength to Enshi’s efforts in building a demonstration zone for the innovative practice of the ‘Two Mountains’ theory and forging a world-class tourism destination,” said a senior official from the Prefecture Public Security Bureau.
　　Police safeguard the scenery, and the scenery, in turn, ensures police safety. The “Peace Sentinel” of Enshi Public Security for tourism has already sounded the alarm, and Enshi is now developing a “mountain-region-style tourism policing” model. Enshi tourism is great today—and even better tomorrow!