In 2020, the Chinese police cracked more than 750 cultural relic crimes and recovered more than 14,000 cultural relics

  China News Service, Beijing, December 25 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 25th that in 2020, public security agencies across the country will further promote special operations against cultural relics crimes and continue to crack down on cultural relics crimes.

Since the launch of this year's special operation, more than 150 cultural relic criminal gangs have been eliminated, more than 1,500 criminal suspects have been arrested, more than 750 cultural relic crime cases have been cracked, and more than 14,000 cultural relics have been recovered, including 15 first-class cultural relics.

  According to reports, in recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has vigorously promoted the construction of "digital cultural relics", continuously strengthened the use of new technologies, and severely cracked down on Internet cultural relics crimes. The United Nations National Cultural Relics Bureau established a national cultural relics crime information center and a platform for publishing information on stolen (lost) cultural relics in China. .

Promote the establishment of specialized institutions for combating cultural relics crimes, establish a pool of professional talents, strengthen the construction of sites for the preservation of cultural relics involved, the construction of police stations and police offices of key cultural relics protection units, and do a solid job of combating cultural relics crime.

Actively promote the strengthening of multi-police combined operations in various regions, continue to promote the formation of a normalized coordination mechanism between local public security agencies, cultural relics, customs and other departments, strengthen the supervision of key links in cultural logistics, and prevent the loss of cultural relics overseas.

Adhere to both law popularization and crackdown, guide the public through case interpretation education, and strive to create a strong atmosphere for the protection of cultural relics in the whole society.

  Local public security organs insisted on opening the way, integrating the resources of various police and cultural relics departments, striving to fight gangs, chase fugitives, surrender cultural relics, destroy the Internet, thoroughly investigate criminal networks, behind-the-scenes organizers, and funders, and implement a full-chain attack on criminal links.

For cases listed as the focus of special operations, the responsible comrades of the city and county public security organs shall serve as the team leaders to coordinate investigation resources, solve the cases in time, arrest people, and recover cultural relics.

  The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security stated that in the next step, the public security organs will insist on the application of information technology as a starting point, to open the way, to promote prevention, to combine the prevention, and to make overall plans, and continue to maintain a high pressure on cultural relics crimes. Promote the in-depth development of special actions and resolutely safeguard the safety of my country's cultural relics.

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