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The Xizhi Baiyun Police Station is a historic building in Xizhi District, New Taipei City. Dating from the Japanese colonial period, the original Shisanfen Police Station—built in the ninth year of the Taishō era (1920)—is also called Baiyun Police Station. The structure’s original appearance remains largely intact; it stands beside the Shisanfen Training Ground (later Baiyun Elementary School) connected to the Luku Incident during the White Terror. In 1901 the Shisanfen area of Xizhi already had a “Shisanfen Police Officers’ Substation,” subordinate to the Jinbaoli Branch Office of the Keelung Prefecture. In 1920 it was transferred to the Xizhi Office of the Qixing Police Section, Taipei Prefecture, and renamed “Shisanfen Police Officers’ Substation.” The present building, completed on 22 May 1939, comprises a south-wing Western-style office block and a north-wing Japanese-style dormitory. The Western wing has a gabled roof, long and small slit windows on each side of the façade, a canopy above, terracotta vent tiles, and a police badge (now gone). Its walls and roof were restored in 2019; nearby gateposts and a flag-pedestal from the period survive. The Japanese wing collapsed around the 1980s; only ruins remain.