Introduction:The Jiulidi Police Station in Chengdu and CapitaLand Plaza have jointly created the country’s first anti-fraud themed coffee space, integrating police awareness campaigns into boutique coffee culture. With a minimalist black-and-white design and adorable panda police imagery, it not only offers professional-grade pour over and espresso options but also permeates anti-fraud knowledge from the taste buds to the heart through fun cup sleeves and straw holder designs. Join us as we take an in-depth look at the operational ingenuity of this unique coffee shop and how a single cup of coffee can raise fraud awareness for the whole family.
In a bustling commercial district of Jinniu District, Chengdu, an innovative space that blends policing functions with coffee aesthetics has quietly emerged. The anti-fraud themed coffee shop, launched in collaboration between Jiulidi Police Station and CapitaLand Plaza, has become a popular Instagram-worthy spot among local youth since its soft opening on January 11. This composite space, located right next to the police station, is instantly recognizable with its bold black-and-white visual identity, and features an adorable panda police statue at the entrance, creating a striking visual contrast.
Unlike traditional awareness methods, this coffee shop has pioneered “sensory-style anti-fraud education” — daily limited-edition specialty drink sleeves feature pun-filled slogans such as “High-yield investments? Watch your principal fly away!”; thoughtfully designed straw holders are engraved with specific cases like “New tactic in family fraud: fake grandchild urgently needs money.”
While enjoying freshly ground coffee, customers naturally absorb these cautionary messages derived from real cases.
According to on-site observations, the shop uses a professional semi-automatic coffee machine paired with a dual-head filter, offering a selection of specialty beans including Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Natural (recommended extraction parameters: coffee-to-water ratio 1:16, water temperature 92°C). Baristas have specially designed a “fraud-flavor wheel” latte art tutorial, translating common scam types into graphical symbols integrated into milk foam art — for example, using a broken heart shape to represent romance scams, or shattered coins symbolizing investment traps.
Notably, this space is actually the first normalized police outpost under a police-commerce co-construction model in Chengdu. In addition to the regular police officers stationed there handling commercial disputes, during special periods such as Anti-Fraud Awareness Month, the site also hosts interactive lectures titled “Talking Fraud Prevention Over Coffee.” On-site visitors can scan coasters with AR technology to instantly view the latest fraud technique analysis videos and receive personalized anti-fraud self-assessment questionnaires.
Industry experts point out that this innovative model effectively solves the dilemma of past awareness campaigns where “flyers get tossed and texts get deleted.” By transforming legal knowledge into shareable coffee experiences — for example, designing a social mechanism like “share with your elders to get a free upgrade” — it successfully builds a fraud-prevention bridge between younger generations and the elderly. Data shows that during the soft opening period, there has already been a significant downward trend in telecom fraud reports in the surrounding communities.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
