The recruitment of auxiliary police in Taicang, Jiangsu is restricted to men accused of sex discrimination, response: female auxiliary police are full
Recently, the Taicang Public Security Bureau, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, recruited only men as auxiliary police officers, which caused heated discussions among netizens.
Some netizens said that this involves gender discrimination in employment.
Taicang Public Security Bureau Recruitment Guide for Police Auxiliary Staff Screenshots from the official website of Suzhou Public Security Bureau
On the afternoon of September 29, a person in charge of the auxiliary police from the Taicang Public Security Bureau responded to The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) saying that it was not that female auxiliary police were not recruited, but that “(female auxiliary police) is already full. Don't consider it."
Male auxiliary police are mainly field service, while female auxiliary police are mainly internal service.
When asked why the 110 police officers also require men, the aforementioned person in charge stated that the police officers need to be "24 hours a day. The female (auxiliary police) may have to take care of the children, which is not convenient."
On the morning of the 29th, The Paper contacted Liuhe Police Station of the Taicang Public Security Bureau as an applicant.
A person in charge of recruitment introduced that the "patrol prevention and control" position faces relatively complicated personnel at work. For safety reasons, only male auxiliary police are currently recruited.
The female auxiliary police of the police station are currently mainly doing internal work.
The relevant person in charge of the traffic police city squadron told The Paper that whether to recruit female auxiliary police is not determined by them, but based on the vacancy situation of the Taicang Public Security Bureau. "It is not discrimination, it is because of job needs."
The Paper noted that on September 23, a "Guideline for the Recruitment of Police Auxiliary Personnel by the Taicang Public Security Bureau" (hereinafter referred to as the "Recruitment Guide") published on the official website of the Suzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau showed that Taicang City had The Public Security Bureau publicly recruits auxiliary police officers (referred to as "auxiliary police") to assist the police in carrying out auxiliary police affairs.
The aforementioned "Recruitment Guide" stated that the 110 police officers, patrol prevention and control, community co-management, and patrol prevention were publicly recruited by the 110 command center of the Taicang Public Security Bureau, the traffic police city squadron, the Liuhe police station, and the port police station. Control, duty command and incident handling personnel are required to be male.
Zhou Bin, a labor law expert and the Shanghai Law Society Labor Law Professional Committee Council, analyzed whether this matter involved gender discrimination in employment. This recruitment notice should not be used alone, but the ratio of male and female auxiliary police officers of the Public Security Bureau should be considered as a whole.
If the bureau has never recruited women to work as auxiliary police before, it is gender discrimination.
However, if this recruitment is only a staged recruitment, it cannot be concluded that it is gender discrimination.
Zhou Bin also said that unless there is a sufficient reason and the reason is stated in the recruitment notice, it is not recommended to restrict gender.
Wu Ting, the chief career instructor of the Shanghai Yangpu District (center), said that although the position has specific characteristics, the state also has clear documents stipulating that gender cannot be restricted in recruitment notices.
If women are qualified for the job content and requirements of the position, but only recruit men because of women’s special reasons, it is inappropriate.
Intern Yang Caini, Surging Journalist Xue Shasha