Those are authentic Chinese traffic police uniforms too, but the video itself is a composite including staged content.
Bizzarrely, TikTok (known as Douyin in China) has become an officially-endorsed outlet for China’s law enforcement organisations. It’s surprisingly popular for short public information videos about law and order intended to target young people, often presented in a humorous way to get youth engagement.
As long ago as January 2019, the news portal ‘China Police Network’ announced that 175 new TikTok channels had been created by police stations, SWAT teams, traffic police, and prisons in a single month, bringing the total to nearly 1,200 such accounts. In that month alone, they churned out over 13,000 videos attracting 4.8 billion views and millions of downloads.
The Siping Police Affairs channel became the first police account in China to attract 10 million followers and gets praise for the success of police hashtag campaigns such as #SayNoToDrunkDriving.
Government departments have even encouraged staff to create their own content independently and Siping has led the way, producing slickly scripted skits highlighting legal and public safety issues, including scams, drunk driving, drug abuse, and theft. The videos often use real police officers (some of whom have become minor celebrities) to create scripted humorous scenarios in combination with civilian amateur ‘actors’ and footage borrowed from elsewhere or uploaded by members of the public.