China News Service, Beijing, September 23 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang) The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference in Beijing on September 23. It was introduced at the conference that in the first eight months of 2020, there were 207 civilian police officers and 102 auxiliary police officers from public security agencies across the country. They died on duty, and 3,198 policemen and 2,571 auxiliary policemen were injured on duty.

　　The press conference informed the Ministry of Public Security of the effectiveness of the special campaign to combat cultural relics crimes and the Ministry of Public Security's organization of combating telecommunications network fraud criminal gangs.

It was introduced at the meeting that in 2017, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage deployed a three-year special campaign to combat cultural relics crimes and achieved significant results. A total of 3,481 cultural relic crimes were detected, 5,867 suspects were arrested, and more than 40,000 cultural relics were seized.

　　On August 31, 2020, the Ministry of Public Security once again worked with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to deploy a one-year special operation to combat cultural relics crime.

On September 4, the Ministry of Public Security issued Class A warrants for 10 fugitives suspected of major cultural relic crimes.

On September 21, the last fugitive criminal suspect surrendered to the police. So far, all 10 A-level wanted fugitives have arrived, and a large number of national cultural relics have been recovered.

Some of these cultural relics belong to the Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, and Spring and Autumn Periods, with high historical, scientific, and artistic value, and achieved victory in the first battle.

　　The Ministry of Public Security requires that public security organs at all levels intensify their crackdowns and make full use of new technologies and methods such as big data and artificial intelligence to deal with the theft, reselling, and smuggling of cultural relics crime organizers, investors, and perpetrators. , Implement severe crackdowns on all employees and the entire chain in accordance with the law, and resolutely protect the safety of cultural relics.

　　In response to the telecommunications network fraud that the people hate, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed a unified "Cloud Sword-2020" special operation, focusing on high-incidence crimes such as online loans, online orders, killing pigs, and pretending to be customer services. Eradicate fraud dens, rectify the black and gray industries, and comprehensively strengthen early warning and dissuasion, which has achieved remarkable results.

　　In the first eight months of 2020, 155,000 telecommunications network fraud cases were broken nationwide, and 145,000 criminal suspects were arrested, up 65.6% and 74.1% year-on-year, respectively. The people directly avoided economic losses of about 80 billion yuan and 96110 anti-fraud warnings. The cumulative number of special accounts prevented 8.7 million people from being deceived.

　　The Ministry of Public Security emphasized that in order to severely crack down on telecommunication network fraud crimes, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and maintain the overall stability of the society, the Ministry of Public Security decided to issue a grade A wanted order after studying and judging the leaders of the telecommunications network fraud criminal group and imposing a warrant for 10 major fugitives. The leader of a cyber fraud criminal syndicate is publicly wanted.

　　The press conference pointed out that in the face of the sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic, public security police and medical staff have forgotten their lives and made outstanding contributions to achieving major strategic results in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Statistics show that in the first eight months of 2020, there were 207 policemen and 102 auxiliary policemen who died on duty, and 3198 policemen and 2571 auxiliary policemen were injured on duty.

At the National Commendation Conference for Fighting the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic, a total of 104 individuals and 34 collectives from public security agencies across the country were commended. Among them, 15 comrades sacrificed heroically and used their precious lives to interpret loyalty.

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