The past year of 2008 is an extraordinary year in the history of public security work, and it is also a year in which public security management has withstood severe tests and achieved remarkable results. In the face of sudden and rare major challenges in history, under the strong leadership of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security and public security organs at all levels, the national public security system and the broad masses of police closely focused on the overall goal of "a safe Olympics" and were full of a strong sense of political responsibility and historical mission, fighting continuously, fighting tenaciously, working closely together, actively participating in the Olympic security work, resisting low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters in some parts of the south, and going to Sichuan for earthquake relief and disaster relief. Deepen the construction of the "three basics" project, continuously strengthen and improve the public security administration, make important contributions to maintaining social stability, promoting economic and social development, and ensuring the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and practice the solemn commitment of being a loyal guardian of the party and a caring person of the people with practical actions.
Work together to defend the Olympic Games and tighten the security of the torch relay.
From May 4th to September 6th, the torch relay of Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games was held in 117 cities in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. The relay lasted 107 days, traveled 97,000 kilometers, and made 227 traffic transitions. More than 20,000 torchbearers participated in the relay, and more than 60 million people went to the scene to watch it. The number of participants was the highest in history, covering a wide area, and it was the first time in the security history of large-scale events in China. In order to do a good job in the torch relay security, the Ministry of Public Security has set up a torch relay security headquarters to make a comprehensive deployment of security work. Local public security organs attached great importance to and strengthened leadership, and all kinds of police cooperated closely and cooperated with each other, and paid close attention to the implementation of security measures to ensure the safe and smooth progress of the torch relay.
Conscientiously implement Olympic food security measures
In order to do a good job in Olympic food safety and security, the local public security organs concerned, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Beijing Olympic Food Safety Coordination Group and the Ministry of Public Security, actively cooperated with relevant departments to establish a point-to-point security network for Olympic food supply, implemented a series of regulatory measures such as safety monitoring during production, purchase, storage and transportation, sent police forces to designated Olympic food bases and enterprises, urged relevant units to improve civil air defense, physical defense and technical defense measures, and timely discovered and rectified potential safety hazards, creating a good safety environment for Olympic food production. All localities have also generally opened up green channels for Olympic food transportation, providing safe and convenient transportation conditions to the maximum extent, effectively ensuring the safety of Olympic food transportation.
Strengthen public security patrol control
In accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, all localities, in combination with the characteristics of their jurisdictions, rationally adjust the layout of police forces, scientifically arrange service methods, and police the streets to the maximum extent. At the same time, they actively carry out joint service armed patrols with the armed police forces in large and medium-sized cities, fully mobilize the forces of mass prevention and treatment, and strengthen patrol control over key time periods and important parts. During the Olympic Games, a total of 21.35 million patrol troops were put into various places, and 94,000 suspects were arrested, which effectively cracked down on and deterred the current illegal and criminal activities such as "two robberies" in the streets. The public order in the cities of the Olympic Games was good, and no police were called and no cases were reported around the Olympic venues in Beijing.
Vigorously strengthen the safety precautions of key parts.
Local public security organs strictly implement internal public security measures, focusing on party and government heads and important infrastructure such as water, electricity, oil and gas, post and telecommunications, radio and television. From March to October, a special campaign was organized to crack down on the illegal crimes of stealing and damaging electric power, telecommunications, radio and television facilities (hereinafter referred to as "Three Electricity"), and 76,000 cases of stealing and damaging "Three Electricity" facilities were investigated and dealt with, with more than 36,000 criminal suspects, and the value of property seized was 630 million yuan. The cases of stealing and damaging "Three Electricity" facilities decreased by 22%, 35.2% and 16.3% respectively. A special campaign was organized to rectify the production order of oil and gas fields and oil and gas pipelines. The number of times that oil wells and oil and gas pipelines belonging to PetroChina and Sinopec were drilled and stolen decreased by 39.1% and 32% respectively year-on-year. From June to July, the Ministry of Public Security and the China Securities Regulatory Commission jointly deployed the national securities and futures system to carry out special safety inspection, and found out 2,205 potential safety hazards and rectified 1,286 on the spot.
Strengthen the guidance of security work in the competition area outside Beijing
48 football matches of Beijing Olympic Games, 116 rounds of Olympic Games and 33 rounds of Paralympic Games were held in Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang, Qinhuangdao and Qingdao respectively. More than 1,800 athletes, coaches and officials from 76 countries and regions participated in the competitions, and more than 2 million Chinese and foreign spectators watched the competitions on the spot. In order to do a good job in the Olympic security work outside Beijing, the Ministry of Public Security specially set up the security headquarters outside Beijing, and the public security organs in each competition area set up a security command organization with the top leader, formulated more than 1,200 security plans, and successively invested 263,000 police officers to carry out security work with all their strength, ensuring the safe and smooth progress of various Olympic events.
Solidly carry out the moat operation
In order to effectively safeguard the security and stability of Beijing during the Olympic Games, Hebei, Tianjin and Beijing have vigorously strengthened the construction of public security checkpoints around Beijing. Since July 21, the moat operation around Beijing has been launched in time, and the safety inspection of people, vehicles and articles entering Beijing has been strictly carried out. A total of 695 criminal suspects have been seized, 7 stolen motor vehicles, 61 kilograms of explosives, 1,024 controlled knives and 3,290 other prohibited items have been seized. Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong and other places have effectively strengthened the remote control and played the role of "filter net".
United as one, public security special police rushed to help the earthquake relief.
After the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake, according to the instructions of Minister Meng Jianzhu, the Ministry of Public Security mobilized 3,550 public security special police officers from 20 cities across the country to rush to the earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan. All the special police officers who went to Sichuan assembled at full speed and worked all day and night. Since May 13th, all of them arrived at the mission area at the appointed time. Under the direct command of the front-line headquarters of the Ministry of Public Security and the local public security organs, they fully carried forward the spirit of "being particularly hard-working, fighting, disciplined and dedicated", ventured into a number of blind spots on foot and devoted themselves to rescue work. In less than half a month, all teams searched and rescued 4,820 people in danger, transferred 85,000 people trapped, rushed 81,000 tons of relief materials, guarded 1,395 key parts and targets, and cared for 45,000 tons of relief materials; Help the masses build 5,434 tents, help 44,000 people in disaster areas in various forms, and actively donate money and materials to the people in disaster areas, equivalent to RMB 3 million; Assisted local public security organs in investigating 192 cases and arrested 281 suspects.
Maintain law and order
After the earthquake relief was transferred to the post-disaster reconstruction stage, from May 27th, the Ministry of Public Security once again mobilized 5,221 public security special police officers from 28 key cities across the country to rush to 23 counties (cities, districts) in five cities (states) with severe disasters in Sichuan. With deep feelings for the people in the disaster area, all the special police officers in Sichuan joined hands with their comrades in the disaster area, gave full play to the role of "a new force for maintaining public security and a special mass task force", spared no effort to maintain public security in the disaster area, enthusiastically served the people in the disaster area, and made important contributions to protecting the lives and property of the people in the disaster area and ensuring the smooth reconstruction after the disaster. During the mission, each team dispatched more than 179,000 patrol police officers, and checked 188,000 suspicious persons and 139,000 vehicles. Investigated and dealt with 646 cases of various types, arrested 2,272 criminal suspects, seized 23 guns, 434 rounds of bullets, 2,066 grams of drugs, 2,234 kilograms of explosives, 24 stolen vehicles and 2.07 million yuan of stolen money and goods. At the same time, the special police teams in Sichuan went deep into rural communities and Qiangzhai, a Tibetan township, and actively carried out the activities of striving for "public security special police teams that are satisfied with the people in the disaster areas". By setting up "tent schools" and "classroom with board houses", donating money and materials, helping the victims to carry out self-help in production and preaching safety prevention knowledge, they sincerely solved practical difficulties for the people in the disaster areas, providing services for the people for more than 57,000 times, mediating more than 6,500 disputes and donating money.More than 120,000 safety prevention leaflets, more than 42,000 police-civilian contact cards, and 100,000 Yu Ben for people in earthquake-stricken areas were distributed.
Actively introduce convenience measures.
In order to effectively serve the post-disaster reconstruction work, the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department formulated Ten Measures for Public Security Household Affairs Department to Serve the People in Disaster Areas, and put forward measures such as simplifying the procedures of registered permanent residence and resident ID cards for the people in disaster areas, and handling temporary resident ID cards for free. The province accepted 363,000 household affairs, including 65,000 Yu Ben household registration books, more than 9,000 household registration certificates issued in time, more than 84,000 temporary id card free of charge, and provided more than 80,000 household registration inquiry services. Public security organs in Hebei, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places have also issued relevant policies to facilitate the registered permanent residence and identity cards of the people in the disaster areas who work locally.
Strictly manage and maintain law and order, and carry out the special action of blasting and gun detection in depth.
From March to October, the public security organs throughout the country continued to carry out in-depth special operations to control explosions and arrest guns, focusing on Beijing and the six Olympic competition areas of Tianjin, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao, Shenyang and Qingdao, effectively strengthening the safety supervision of dangerous goods such as explosives, guns and ammunition, thoroughly investigating and rectifying outstanding problems related to explosions and guns, and effectively curbing the occurrence of explosion cases, accidents and gun-related crimes. In the special campaign, 15,000 cases involving explosives and guns, including illegal traffickers, involving 21,000 people, were investigated, and 3,677 tons of explosives, 18.97 million detonators, 14.74 million meters of fuses, 1,041 tons of black powder, 110,000 guns (including 11,000 military guns), 2.56 million simulation guns, 8.2 million rounds of bullets and 2.1 million controlled knives were not collected. From January to November, the explosion cases and accidents in the whole country continued to maintain an obvious downward trend, with a year-on-year decrease of 15.8% and 54% respectively. During this period, a special campaign was also organized to focus on rectifying the illegal sale of firearms and ammunition on the Internet, and a number of online gun-related cases were investigated and dealt with.
Deepening gambling prohibition and building a long-term mechanism
In view of the repeated prohibition of gambling activities in some places, the public security organs throughout the country have continuously carried out crackdown and rectification actions, and have continuously increased the intensity of gambling prohibition, and achieved remarkable results. In the centralized crackdown on online gambling, a total of 179,000 cases and 584,000 people were investigated. In order to promote the construction of a long-term mechanism for banning gambling, the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Social Security once again included the work of banning gambling in the evaluation of comprehensive management of social security, and the Ministry of Public Security actively promoted the establishment of an inter-ministerial joint meeting system for banning gambling with the participation of many ministries and commissions. Public security organs in Liaoning, Hunan, Zhejiang and other places have linked the effectiveness of gambling prohibition with performance appraisal by formulating measures for investigating the responsibility of gambling prohibition and signing letters of responsibility, which has effectively promoted the implementation of the responsibility of gambling prohibition.
Strengthen the management of places and intensify the prohibition of prostitution
In June 2008, the Ministry of Public Security promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Public Security in Entertainment Places, which provided a powerful legal weapon for strengthening the administration of public security in entertainment places and effectively preventing and cracking down on prostitution. Taking the implementation of the Measures as an opportunity, local public security organs organized and carried out special work on strict public security management in entertainment service places, severely cracked down on illegal and criminal activities such as prostitution and whoring, and investigated and dealt with more than 45,000 illegal and criminal cases such as prostitution and whoring, involving more than 100,000 people.
Strike hard against infringement and piracy, service knowledge innovation.
In order to maintain a good order in the publication market, public security organs at all levels actively cooperated with relevant departments to further tighten the public security management of the publication market and printing and copying enterprises, and severely cracked down on illegal and criminal activities of infringement and piracy. A total of 13.917 million illegal publications were collected, and 5,119 cases of illegal publication, infringement and piracy were investigated and dealt with, involving 8,771 people. Seven illegal CD production lines were seized. Since 1996, the public security organs have seized a total of 238 illegal CD production lines.
Strengthen the management of scrap metal acquisition industry
In order to strengthen the public security management of scrap metal purchasing industry and severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts such as stealing and damaging power, communications, urban public facilities, and collecting and selling stolen goods, the national public security organs, together with the administrative department for industry and commerce, have carried out in-depth special cleaning and rectification work of scrap metal purchasing sites, strengthened the filing management of sites, inspected more than 107,000 scrap metal purchasing sites, banned 6,150 illegal and illegal business sites, cracked 5,443 cases of various types and arrested more than 7,900 people involved in various types. At the same time, the service awareness was strengthened, and legal publicity and legal advice were provided to employees of scrap metal acquisition industry in a timely manner through various forms such as news media publicity, door-to-door visits and training lectures, which promoted the healthy development of the industry.
Actively participate in the disposal of Sanlu milk powder incident
After the Sanlu milk powder incident was exposed, local public security organs, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Ministry of Public Security and in close cooperation with relevant departments, quickly carried out case investigation and other work. A total of 47 criminal cases related to the Sanlu milk powder incident were filed for investigation, including the manufacture and sale of toxic and harmful food, and 142 suspects were arrested and 60 people were arrested. Among them, 10 cases and 21 suspects involved in the investigation by the public security organs of Hebei Province, including the criminal cases of Sanlu Group, have been transferred to prosecution and heard in court. At the same time, local public security organs actively participated in the investigation and resolution of contradictions and disputes caused by the problem milk powder, and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of the masses.
Cigarettes’ Counterfeiting and Making Great Achievements
Under the unified command and coordination of the Ministry of Public Security and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, local public security organs have worked closely with tobacco departments to fight together, focusing on "stopping dens, attacking the source, cutting off the network and arresting the main criminals", and constantly stepping up efforts to crack down on illegal and criminal activities of manufacturing and selling counterfeit cigarettes. From January to November, 2,912 counterfeit dens were destroyed, 735,000 counterfeit cigarettes were seized, 17,000 tons of cut tobacco leaves were seized and 406 cigarette machines were seized. The Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security directly coordinated and guided the public security organs in Guangdong and Fujian provinces to solve the transnational case of "Minyue No.1" manufacturing and selling fake cigarettes, and seized 3,370 pieces of fake cigarettes such as Marlboro and 555, involving hundreds of millions of yuan.
Strengthening public security mediation and promoting social harmony
In order to effectively improve the ability to resolve contradictions and disputes, promote social harmony, and realize the organic unity of the legal effect and social effect of law enforcement, on December 8, 2007, the Ministry of Public Security formulated and promulgated the Work Specification for Public Security Mediation of Public Security Organs, which clearly stipulated the scope of application, participants, working time limit, on-site mediation and other issues. Since 2008, local public security organs have earnestly carried out the implementation work, and the public security departments in Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning and other provinces have also formulated work regulations such as public mediation and on-site mediation in light of the actual situation, and the public security mediation work has been significantly strengthened. From January to November, local public security organs mediated nearly 2.398 million public security cases caused by civil disputes, such as fighting and damaging other people’s property, up 31.1% year-on-year; Among all the public security cases investigated, the number of people applying fines decreased by 8.2% year-on-year.
New progress has been made in the construction of public security police stations.
With the leadership of Party committees and governments at all levels and the strong support of relevant departments, public security organs all over the country have comprehensively strengthened the construction of police stations, further enriched their police force, further improved their office conditions and equipment, further improved their policing mechanism, further strengthened their basic work, and further improved their ability to keep one party safe. At present, the actual police force of national police stations has increased by 6.2% compared with 2007, accounting for 49.6% of the total police force of county-level public security organs; The number of police stations with their own office buildings nationwide increased by 5 percentage points compared with the end of 2007, reaching 95.5% of the total; National first-class police stations account for 6.7%, second-class police stations account for 22.2%, third-class police stations account for 46.9%, and the coverage of high-grade police stations accounts for more than a quarter of the total.
New achievements have been made in the construction of community and rural policing
In March 2008, the Ministry of Public Security issued the Order on Commending the Advanced Collections and Individuals of Public Security Organs in China for Implementing the Community and Rural Policing Strategy, which commended and rewarded 115 advanced collectives and 170 community-based policemen in villages, further promoted the implementation of the community and rural policing strategy, and inspired the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the majority of policemen to do a good job in urban and rural community policing. At present, there are 169,000 community and rural police offices in China, staffed with 213,000 police officers, including 60,000 community police offices and 105,000 police officers. The coverage rate of police offices and police officers are 92.8% and 161.7% respectively. There are 109,000 rural police offices and 109,000 policemen. With the sinking of police force and the advancement of police affairs, the majority of community and resident police have taken root at the grassroots level and integrated into the masses, and the basic work of public security at the grassroots level has been continuously strengthened, and the ability to prevent and crack down on crimes has been significantly improved. From January to November, robbery cases in residential areas nationwide decreased by 17.5% compared with the same period in 2007, among which burglary cases decreased by 13.6%.
New breakthroughs have been made in the informatization construction of population management.
After years of continuous efforts, a three-tier structure of the national population information management system has been formed, with the Ministry, province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government) and prefecture (city) levels as the information gathering points. By the end of 2008, the total population in the national population basic information resource database reached 1.307 billion, 19 million more than in 2007, and exceeded the 1.3 billion mark for the first time. The quality of population information is constantly improving, and the logical error of data items is less than one tenth of the population. Up to now, the national population basic information resource database has provided 80 million times of inquiry service to public security organs nationwide, and provided 1 billion times of service to government departments and all walks of life through the citizen identity information verification service system.
The level of banking security has been improved.
At the beginning of 2008, after the Ministry of Public Security promulgated the Regulations on Security Prevention of Self-service Equipment and Self-service Banking (GA745-2008) and the public security industry standard of Withdrawal Box (GA746-2008), in order to effectively implement the work and improve the security level of the banking industry, the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security held a national training course for public security financial security cadres, summarizing and popularizing the experience of bank security work for many years. Analyze the current laws and characteristics of bank crimes, and explain the common standards in bank security in detail. More than 200 comrades from public security departments and bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial public security bureaus, and security departments of policy banks, state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock commercial banks participated in the training.
Enthusiastic service, ensuring people’s livelihood, household registration management, and measures to facilitate and benefit the people are generally welcomed by the masses.
Local public security organs have further strengthened and improved household registration management service measures in light of local conditions. Fujian, Hubei, Ningxia, Heilongjiang and Harbin have implemented the procedures of moving from one place to registered permanent residence within the city limits, thus reducing the link of household registration examination and approval and improving work efficiency. In Hubei, Chongqing, Ningxia, Yan ‘an, Shaanxi and other places, for the elderly, the disabled and other people with mobility difficulties, an appointment service is implemented, and the police of the public security police station will take the initiative to come to the door to provide their registered permanent residence and resident ID cards. Hubei and Ningxia also provide the inquiry service of duplicate names and uncommon words within counties (cities) when the newborn baby registered permanent residence is registered. Shanxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places have introduced policies to relax the conditions for the settlement of outstanding migrant workers. The Household Affairs Department of Tianjin Public Security Bureau concentrated its time on handling the household registration examination and approval procedures for qualified migrant workers and their families.
The task of centralized renewal of the second-generation resident identity card was completed five months ahead of schedule.
In accordance with the unified arrangements of the Ministry of Public Security, local public security organs actively, steadily and orderly promoted the centralized renewal of second-generation resident identity cards (hereinafter referred to as second-generation cards), and completed the task of centralized renewal of second-generation cards for 800 million people issued by the State Council five months in advance. By the end of December, more than 900 million second-generation certificates had been issued nationwide, and most of the legal holders over the age of 16 had received the second-generation certificates. In the centralized renewal of second-generation certificates, all localities have earnestly enhanced their service awareness, actively carried out services to facilitate the people and benefit the people, and used the opportunities of migrant workers returning home for holidays such as the Spring Festival and the National Day Golden Week to renew more than 20 million second-generation certificates for the masses and deliver 700,000 certificates to their homes. Sichuan, Hubei, Chongqing, Ningxia and other places organized police to go to provinces and cities where there are more people going out to collect the information of the second-generation witnesses for the masses, thus saving the people the round-trip travel expenses for returning home to apply for a certificate. Jilin Public Security Police Station launched the activity of "10,000 police officers enter 10,000 homes to deliver certificates", and 375,000 certificates were delivered at home.
The service management of floating population was further strengthened.
Local public security organs constantly strengthen and improve the service management of floating population, severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities that infringe on the personal and property safety of floating population, actively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of migrant farmers and migrant left-behind children, and actively cooperate with relevant departments to conscientiously do a good job in the employment, education and training, social security and other services of floating population. Jointly with relevant departments, we organized a nationwide special campaign to clean up and rectify the order of the human resources market, put on record and investigated more than 10,000 illegal cases of job introduction, banned more than 4,900 illegal intermediaries, and ordered them to pay back more than 4 million yuan for job hunting. Organized and carried out special inspection activities on the wage payment of migrant workers, and recovered arrears of wages and compensation of more than 1 billion yuan for more than 900,000 migrant workers.
The "eight measures" were thoroughly implemented.
In accordance with the deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, public security organs throughout the country have further strengthened their cooperation with the administrative departments of education, conscientiously implemented the "eight measures" to maintain public order on campus and its surrounding areas, effectively maintaining public order on campus and ensuring the personal and property safety of teachers and students. From January to November, all localities investigated and dealt with 26,000 cases of infringement on the personal and property rights of teachers and students, and collected more than 21,000 controlled knives on campus. More than 10,000 legal vice presidents or legal counselors were newly appointed, 9,325 security guards were newly stationed on campus, and more than 460,000 fire inspections were conducted on campus, and a number of public security sentry box, traffic and fire safety facilities were added in and around the school; Cases of infringement of personal and property rights in primary and secondary schools nationwide decreased by 13% compared with the same period in 2007. Through unremitting efforts, the public security order in and around the national campus has continued to improve, the security and prevention ability has been further improved, and the sense of security of teachers, students and parents has been further enhanced.
Editor: Wang Jiaolong
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