The area, which hosts a lot of Chinese-owned businesses has been targetted by criminals partly because of poor security. Deputy Chief of the Chinese embassy in Botswana Gou Haodong said on Friday that they decided to embark on this initiative after hearing about the Botswana Police Service venture to implement cluster/ community policing in National Development Plan 10 (NDP 10). " We were extremely encouraged by the new initiative of cluster policing by the Botswana police. After hearing this, we came together and formed a Chinese security community to see how we can contribute to help the police achieve this," he said. He said they want to set examples for other communities to follow in order to help implement the cluster policing initiative.
Gou said they thought of a possibility of building a police post in the area around Oriental Plaza. He said they agreed on that location because it is a big business area and the community living there is sizeable. He said the owner of plaza has offered a piece of land for the post to be built within the premises. In additio, some Chinese companies volunteered to make the design and construction of the proposed two-storey building.
