Beijing, December 29 (China News Network) In order to ensure that the public security police perform their duties and exercise their powers in accordance with the law, and safeguard the dignity of the national law and the authority of the people's police in law enforcement, the Ministry of Public Security has formulated the "Regulations on the Work of Public Security Organs in Safeguarding the Authority of the People's Police in Law Enforcement", which was signed and issued by Zhao Kezhi, state councilor and minister of public security, and will be formally implemented on February 1, 2019.
Data chart: On the morning of August 6, Wang Tao, director of the Fujia Police Station of the Renshou County Public Security Bureau in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, and Liao Xian, an auxiliary police officer, fought to the death with criminals armed with guns and knives to protect the lives and property of the people, and were seriously injured, and died in the line of duty after rescue was ineffective. China News Service reporter Zhang Lang photographed
The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference in Beijing on the 29th to report on the relevant situation of the "Regulations on the Work of Public Security Organs in Safeguarding the Authority of the People's Police in Law Enforcement." Guo Lin, spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security, presided over the press conference, and Zhang Xiangning, director of the Police Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, and Han Chao, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security, attended the press conference and answered reporters' questions.
In recent years, front-line public security police have encountered incidents of obstruction of law enforcement, violent resistance to the law, and rumor-mongering and slander in the course of law enforcement duties, which not only caused serious harm to the personal safety and personal reputation of the public security police, but also greatly damaged the dignity of the state law and the law enforcement authority of the public security organs, and also seriously interfered with the public security police's performance of their duties and missions of cracking down on crime and protecting the people in accordance with the law.
Zhang Xiangning informed that in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, more than 13,000 public security police officers across the country have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty and sacrificed their precious lives for the cause of public security. In the five years from 2013 to 2017, 2,003 people were killed in the line of duty and 25,000 were injured or disabled in the line of duty, of which 361 were sacrificed in 2017, with an average age of only 43.5 years. A considerable part of these bloody sacrifices are caused by violent attacks, retaliation and obstruction of civilian police in the course of law enforcement. In 2017 alone, police supervision departments at all levels accepted and verified 13,000 cases (incidents) of infringement on the law enforcement rights and interests of the police, handled 18,000 perpetrators of the infringement, and provided relief, restoration of reputations and recovery of losses for 16,000 police officers.
Zhang Xiangning said that since March 2017, the Ministry of Public Security has carried out the formulation of the "Regulations on the Work of Public Security Organs to Safeguard the Authority of the People's Police in Law Enforcement". The "Provisions" are mainly based on laws and regulations such as the "People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Regulations on Supervision of Public Security Organs", fully consider the actual needs of the current work of safeguarding the authority of the people's police in law enforcement, and fully consider the connection and support with relevant policies, laws and regulations. The "Provisions" have a total of 33 articles, which are highly scientific, targeted and operable.
The "Provisions" make it clear that public security police officers performing their duties and exercising their powers in accordance with the law are protected by law and are not hindered or obstructed, the personal and property safety of police officers and their close relatives is not threatened or infringed by the police's lawful performance of their duties and the exercise of their powers, and the personal dignity of the police and their close relatives is not insulted or degraded by the lawful performance of their duties and the exercise of their powers by the police. Where the perpetrator commits an act that infringes upon the law enforcement authority of the people's police, and it constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with law; where it does not constitute a crime and constitutes an act that violates the administration of public security, a punishment for the administration of public security shall be given in accordance with law. Where the lawful performance of duties by the people's police causes harm to the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal persons, or other organizations, the individual police do not bear legal responsibility, and the public security organ to which they belong is to compensate for the damage caused in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State. Public security organs shall carry out efforts to pursue responsibility for law enforcement mistakes in strict accordance with laws and regulations, and must not employ measures such as suspension of the performance of duties or confinement against police officers for reasons other than for legally prescribed reasons or through legally prescribed procedures, and must not make sanctions or dismissal, demotion, dismissal, or other such dispositions.
The "Provisions" require that the public security organs of people's governments at the county level or above shall establish a working committee for safeguarding the authority of the people's police in law enforcement, headed by the chief inspector, and its office shall be located in the police supervision department. Public security organs shall establish and improve press release mechanisms for safeguarding the authority of the people's police in law enforcement, coordinate with medical and health establishments to establish unimpeded mechanisms for emergency treatment of police officers injured in the line of duty, establish a consolation payment system for maintaining the authority of the people's police in law enforcement, and provide legal services for the people's police in lawfully performing their duties and exercising their powers by hiring legal advisers, full-time lawyers, and other such means. The "Provisions" also clarify the specific circumstances and disposal requirements for violating the law enforcement authority of the people's police, and put forward requirements for the application for relief, case supervision, identification of job conduct, clarification and proof of work, and implementation of relevant work responsibilities after the police have been violated, and include police auxiliary personnel and close relatives of the police into the scope of protection. (End)