Baiyun Police Station Introduction
Xizhi Baiyun Police Station is a historic building located in Xizhi District, New Taipei City. It is the remnant of the Shisanfen Police Station established during the Japanese occupation in 1920, also known as Baiyun Police Station. The structure has largely retained its original appearance and is situated near the Shisanfen training grounds related to the Lungku Incident during the White Terror period, which later became Baiyun Elementary School. The Shisanfen area in Xizhi had a "Shisanfen Police Station" established as early as 1901, under the jurisdiction of the Keelung Office, Jinbao District. In 1920, it was transferred to the Xizhi sub-office of the Taipei Prefectural Police Department and renamed "Shisanfen Police Station." The current building is the new office completed on May 22, 1939, with the administrative office space on the south side featuring a Western-style mansion and the north side serving as a Japanese-style dormitory for police officers. The Western-style mansion has a gabled roof, long strip windows, and small windows on both sides of the front, along with a rain canopy, ventilated ceramic tiles, and a police emblem (which is no longer extant). The mansion's walls and roof were restored in 2019, and the entrance pillars and flag-raising platform from that time have been preserved nearby. The Japanese-style dormitory collapsed in the 1980s, and only remnants remain.
