Chinanews.com, January 1 According to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, in 16, the public security organs, together with relevant departments, will continue to organize and carry out special actions to crack down on and rectify illegal crimes involving firearms and explosives, and have achieved remarkable results, achieving a double improvement in the ability to govern the safety of firearms and explosives and the satisfaction of the sense of social security.
In order to maintain the continued stability of the overall social situation, on the basis of summarizing the experience of previous special actions, in May 2023, the Ministry of Public Security gave full play to the leading role of the Joint Conference on Combating and Rectifying Firearms and Explosives Violations and Crimes, and jointly organized a new round of three-year special actions to crack down on and rectify firearms and explosives in conjunction with the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the State Post Bureau and other departments. In accordance with the unified arrangements, all localities and departments have meticulously organized and courageously assumed responsibility, quickly cracked a number of cases involving guns and explosives, confiscated a number of illegal firearms and explosives, and eliminated a number of hidden dangers to the safety of firearms and explosives.
The public security organs have kept a close eye on the three key points of illegal production and trafficking, border smuggling, and online trafficking, persisted in striking hard to open the way, launched cluster campaigns, carried out cracking cases, supervised the handling of major cases, deployed fugitives to arrest and fight, and carried out unified network collection operations, effectively deterring illegal crimes involving guns and explosives. In 2023, a total of 2,2 gun explosion cases will be cracked, 20,<> suspects will be arrested, and the number of gun explosion crimes will decrease by <>% year-on-year.
In conjunction with the "One Million Policemen Entering Ten Thousand Homes" campaign, the public security organs have carried out in-depth centralized investigation and confiscation operations, rolling inspections of key areas, key locations, and key places, strengthened dynamic investigation of important passages and social patrols, and made every effort to confiscate illegal firearms and explosives in the society. In September 2023, the Ministry of Public Security organized 9 cities across the country to carry out a centralized destruction of illegal firearms and explosives, and carried out centralized and safe destruction of more than 170,14 guns such as air guns and hunting rifles, as well as a batch of explosives, detonators and other explosives confiscated by public security organs across the country and voluntarily handed in by the public, so as to comprehensively eliminate potential public safety hazards.
Focusing on prevention and control at the source, the public security organs, together with relevant departments, carry out firearms investigation and rectification, safety inspections of firearms and ammunition transportation, and special management of the safe production of hazardous chemicals for civil explosives, promote the construction of concentrated areas for the transformation and upgrading of fireworks and firecrackers, and urge practitioners to implement the main responsibility, strictly implement the safety management system, promptly discover and rectify hidden dangers, and strive to eliminate safety risks from the source. In 2023, public security organs across the country will inspect a total of 1,9 guns and explosives practitioners, and supervise the rectification of 1,8 potential safety hazards.
The public security organs said that in the new year, they will work with relevant departments to further deepen the construction of the joint conference system, deepen and promote the three-year special action, continuously improve and improve the collaborative and co-governance supervision system, promote the transformation of the gun and explosion management model to pre-prevention, and further improve the modernization level of the gun and explosion safety governance system and governance capacity, and contribute to the construction of a higher level of safe China.