BEIJING: Whenever faced with a dangerous mission, Cheng Shiyi, a female criminal investigation police officer in Wuhan, Hubei province, would always step up and say, “I know kung fu, let me go first.”
Cheng, 24, has cracked more than 60 criminal cases and apprehended over 40 suspects in less than 18 months since she became a criminal investigation police officer at the end of 2022. “Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be a police officer,” Cheng said.
Influenced by her father, who is a soldier, she enjoys watching movies and TV shows with military and police themes since her childhood. In her view, soldiers defend the country while police fight against crime, two honorable professions.
Due to her weak health, her parents sent her to a martial arts gym owned by a friend when she was four years old, where she practiced Chinese martial arts regularly for three years. This laid the foundation for her later enthusiasm for sports and willingness to try various physical activities.
As she grew up, most of her hobbies were related to sports, including paragliding, sanda (a combat sport originating from Chinese kung fu), and cycling.
During the summer of her sophomore year, just two months after recovering from a broken arm, she went on a 31-day cycling trip with her classmates from Chengdu, Sichuan province to Lhasa, capital of Southwest China’s Xizang autonomous region. “Despite encountering natural disasters such as landslides, mudslides, torrential rain and lightning, as well as altitude sickness and opposition from family members, we persisted and reached our destination,” Cheng said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
