Baiyun Police Station Introduction
The Xizhi Baiyun Police Station is a historical building located in the Xizhi District of New Taipei City. It was established during the Japanese colonial period in the 9th year of the Taisho era (1920) as the Shisanfen Police Station, also known as the Baiyun Police Station. The architecture has largely retained its original appearance and is adjacent to the Shisanfen military training ground associated with the White Terror period's Luku incident (later changed to Baiyun Elementary School). The Shisanfen area in Xizhi already had a "Shisanfeng Police Station" established in 1901, which was under the jurisdiction of the Keelung Office, Jinbaoli Branch. In 1920, it was transferred to the Xizhi sub-office of the Police Headquarters of Qixing District in Taipei Prefecture and renamed "Shisanfen Police Station." The current building, completed on May 22, 1939, features a new hall. The southern side of the hall serves as an administrative office space in a Western-style mansion, while the northern side served as a Japanese-style dormitory for police officers. The Western-style mansion has a hipped roof, long windows, small windows on both sides of the front, an awning above, ventilation tiles, and a police emblem (which is no longer present). The walls and roof of the mansion were restored in 2019, and the nearby entrance columns and flagpole base from that time remain preserved. The Japanese-style dormitory collapsed around the 1980s, and only ruins remain today.
