Chinese policewoman charged in U.S. with transnational repression was trained in Canada
The JIBC provided training to nearly 2000 Chinese law enforcement officers in 7 years.
Chen Zhichen (陈之琛), a Chinese policewoman who was recently charged in the U.S. with transnational repression, received training in Canada a few years ago at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), a police academy in B.C.
Chen, a 26-year-old Chinese citizen, is among the 40 police officers of the P.R.China whose cases were unveiled by the U.S. Justice Department this Monday (April 17, 2023) to the public.
As an official in China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS, 公安部), Chen and her team are charged with having perpetrated transnational repression schemes through an online harassment campaign targeting U.S. residents with Chinese descendants whose political views and actions are disfavored by the Chinese government.
The U.S. court file shows Chen is currently in China. But a few years ago, Chen was studying in Canada, receiving police training at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), according to a WeChat post in 2017.
The post, headlined “School of Criminal Investigation and Anti-terrorism organized "Overseas Study Experience Exchange Seminar," talked about a meeting at the School of Criminal Investigation and Anti-terrorism of the People's Public Security University of China (PPSUC, 中国人民公安大学), where Chen shared her experience and advice about studying at JIBC around 2017 in its Vancouver-area campus in New Westminster, B.C.
The post was published on the official WeChat channel of the People's Public Security University of China. Chen was a student at this university since 2015.
The PPSUC is directly controlled by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) of China. Many of its graduates would find employment in the PBS, just like Chen. When Chen was charged by the U.S. government, she was an officer in the MPS’s First Bureau (aka Political Security Protection Bureau) in Beijing, working as part of the ‘912 Special Project Working Group’.
In 2014, the People's Public Security University of China started to send students to the JIBC for short-term or long-term programs, including the International Law Enforcement Studies (ILES) certificate program.
Besides the People's Public Security University of China, there were 10+ other police colleges in China that sent students to the JIBC for training. On top of police college students, judges, prison wardens, and other law enforcement people were also popular trainees under the ILES program.
According to a report by Glacier Media, as of Nov. 2019, JIBC accepted nearly 2,000 Chinese law enforcement students, recruits and officials, plus dozens of Chinese state judges. In the meantime, JIBC racked in millions of dollars in revenue.
One of the key instructors at the ILES program was Const. Terry Yung (杨子亮), a Vancouver Police Department officer, who has made appearances with China’s Consul-Generals in Vancouver.
The JIBC’s partnership with an increasingly aggressive authoritarian regime raised a lot of concerns and controversy, especially after the 2014 HK Umbrella Movement.
Some people were afraid that the ILES program could become ‘a Trojan horse full of national security threats, such as foreign influence activity, espionage and further offshore human rights violations’.
The JIBC canceled its training partnership with Chinese police universities in 2021, but the impact of its graduates along with the long arm of the Chinese government has already reached North America.
Tong is on the left, controller of some 100 UF groups (actually not, Tiger would be above her).
Xi minions
Go spread your lies at home. Persecution and harassment of freedom believers is not tolerated in Canada. The whole democratic world laughs at you and empathizes with Chinese victims of oppression.