China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is carrying out a large-scale training of heads of public security agencies under the county level, in an effort to improve grassroots police capability, sources with the ministry said Monday.

The massive nationwide rotational training will go on till June 2010, with each session taking 10 days.

The ministry asked the police stations to incorporate local cases into the training sessions.

The program follows immediately similar sessions for the heads of county-level public security bureaus and provincial police spokespersons.

Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu said Friday that law enforcement officers should improve the transparency of police work and ensure the public's access to correct information.

(Xinhua News Agency August 3, 2009)