The highest prosecution prosecuted 7,978 cases of production accident crimes with 13,205 people in four years
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 27. A reporter learned from the Supreme Procuratorate on the 27th that from January 2017 to December 2020, prosecutors across the country accepted 3,923 criminal cases that endanger production safety, and approved 2,348 arrests of 3,909 people. .
A total of 9,914 cases transferred for review and prosecution were accepted by 16,488 persons, and 7,978 cases were prosecuted by 13,205 persons.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate held a press conference on the 27th to report the main status of handling criminal cases against production safety.
According to the report, crimes endangering production safety are accident crimes. The main reasons for the crimes were the indifferent safety awareness of the units or personnel involved, lack of professional qualifications, violation of safety operating procedures, confusion of internal supervision, and inadequate external supervision of relevant functional departments.
The press conference also responded to the explosion accident at the Hushan gold mine in Qixia, Shandong.
Wu Yanyun, deputy director of the Department of Policies and Regulations of the Ministry of Emergency Management and a first-level inspector, said at the press conference, “In response to the Shandong gold mine accident, in the next step, we will investigate and deal with it in accordance with relevant laws and regulations to severely crack down on violations of laws and regulations.”
According to reports, in recent years, the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice in daily supervision and law enforcement of production safety and accident investigation has been continuously strengthened, which has effectively cracked down and contained illegal and criminal activities in production safety.
Huang Weiping, deputy director of the Second Prosecutors Office of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, said that the current national safety production situation is generally stable, but hidden risks still exist, and serious accidents causing mass deaths and injuries still occur from time to time.
Work safety accidents have serious consequences and social concerns. The handling of the accident involves all aspects, including the accountability of the involved unit and its responsible personnel, relevant national staff, compensation of victims’ losses, restoration of production and operation order, prevention of secondary disasters, etc., which require administrative Departments and judicial organs work together and work together to properly handle the matter in accordance with the law and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people to the greatest extent.