Police administrations in China's northeastern city of Changchun have set 2008 as a discipline construction year, demanding all its lower level stations to rank their police officers according to their performances and to select 1 percent from the total 10,000 police officers as "bad examples".

The chosen officers will be sent to study programs and those who fail to pass the following test might be deprived of their rights to enforce the law.

The Beijing Youth Daily acknowledges the good intention of Changchun's police administrations, but it has concerns on whether a fixed percentage of "bad examples" is reasonable, since the actual number of lousy police officers may be less than 100, and thus some innocent officers have to be named "bad" just to fill the 1 percent quota.

The opposing opinion is echoed by The Beijing News, which points out that there is no explanation on where the percentage came from. The paper questions how such a random number could correctly match the amount of inefficient police officers.

The majority of the online population also shows opposition, saying that such a scheme may not necessarily be conducive to the improvement of police officers' performances.