The passenger train police training workshop in Beijing ended on August 10.

The workshop, which began on July 19, drew 232 police to learn skills that could help them protect passengers' lives and propertyand handle accidents, Li said.

The skills include instant firing, overpowering criminals, capturing criminals in a passenger train, Thai boxing and the use of police equipment.

In ball firing, the police officers are required to fire six bullets in five seconds, within a distance of five meters. The trainees were taught to adopt kneeling fire or upward fire to avoid accidental injury of passengers.

China has more than 70,000 railway police officers who are guarding 2,000 passenger trains day and night, said Li Yongjiang, the assistant to the director of the Public Security Bureau of theMinistry of Railway.

Source: Xinhua