New Taipei City Police Department’s Tucheng Precinct is offering a variety of messaging app “stickers” to promote traffic safety in an effort to instill guidelines for proper roadway behavior in the minds of the younger generation.
Tucheng Precinct traffic division chief Hsu Chang-che (徐章哲) said the idea occurred to him as he often chats using messaging apps and enjoys adding stickers when talking with his friends.
He asked his wife, who also works at the station and is artistically inclined, to create a few stickers for the couple to use and her designs went down well with their friends.
Photo: Screengrab by Yu Heng, Taipei Times
“I began to think that if I could combine these stickers with traffic safety promotion, the message would be better received by the public,” Hsu said.
The couple created a set of pictures based on two fictional police officers, a woman named Hsiao Yun (小雲) and a man named Hsiao Che (小哲), giving the stickers basic features, but lively expressions.
The original stickers were so well received that the couple designed nine more sets of stickers — 36 in total — and put them up on the station’s cloud servers to be downloaded for free.
Many of those who downloaded them said the creativity of the stickers played a big part in their appeal.
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