Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 8 -
Topic: Attorney General for the Protection of Minors contribute forces - of minors centralized procuratorial work Summary handle
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Beginning this year, the unified and centralized handling of juvenile procuratorial services has been fully implemented by procuratorial agencies nationwide.
What is the centralized and unified handling of minor cases?
What are the positive meanings of this move?
On the eve of the two sessions, reporters from Xinhua News Agency conducted interviews in Beijing, Gansu, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Fujian and other places.
Professional handling of cases effectively protects the legitimate rights and interests of minors
"Juvenile criminal enforcement, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation prosecution is an important judicial protection link for procuratorial organs to safeguard the legal rights and interests of minors. To strengthen and improve the procuratorial work of minors, and to protect the legal rights and interests of minors to the maximum, it is necessary Further integrate the procuratorial business of juvenile criminal execution, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation, and realize the unified and centralized handling of juvenile procuratorial business." The person in charge of the Ninth Procuratorate of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said.
In 2017, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued the “Notice on Launching the Pilot Work for the Unified and Centralized Handling of Juvenile Criminal Enforcement Prosecutions and Civil Administrative Prosecution Services”, and decided to start the pilot work in 13 provinces including Beijing from January 2018.
In April 2020, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued the “Opinions of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Strengthening the Procuratorial Work of Minors in the New Era”, proposing that this work will be fully implemented throughout the country from 2021.
"After centralized and unified processing, the non-inspection department can proceed from protecting the interests of minors to the maximum extent, find relevant public interest litigation clues in a timely manner, gather the strength of all parties, and form a general pattern of minor protection." Director of the Ninth Procuratorial Department of the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate Yue Huiqing said that the case of selling children's books involving violence, such as a well-known book sales website handled by the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing, is an example of a case handled by the uninspected department based on its own business characteristics and digging into public interest litigation clues.
"In this case, we also urged the administrative authorities to rectify and investigate quickly through pre-litigation consultations, and achieved good social effects."
In 2020, the People’s Procuratorate of Gansu Province will “give full play to the function of supervising the execution of penalties, assisting community corrections, and strengthening the two-way, comprehensive and comprehensive protection of juvenile justice” into the overall thinking of the province’s uninspected work, and will “advance the progress in an orderly manner”. "Unified and centralized handling of inspection services" is listed as an annual key task.
"We jointly launched the province’s first special inspection activity on community corrections for minors in the province. During the inspection, we found 5 major problems, put forward 6 written corrective opinions, and issued 4 procuratorial suggestions. All rectifications have been implemented. "The relevant person in charge of the People's Procuratorate of Gansu Province said.
Comprehensive protection of the legal rights of minors
On October 20, 2020, with the solemn legal gavel slowly falling, Zhejiang’s first civil public interest lawsuit on the online sale of fake and inferior children’s masks was publicly pronounced at the Hangzhou Internet Court, and the court decided to support all public interest litigation requests by the prosecutors.
After the trial, Hangzhou Xiaoshan District People's Procuratorate, Hangzhou Internet Court and Zhejiang Women and Children's Foundation signed an agreement, stipulating that the compensation will be managed by the Provincial Women's and Children's Foundation for public welfare expenditures such as minor epidemic protection.
The handling of this case opened up the supervision mode of minor public interest litigation that integrates online and offline integration, which has positive significance in the unified and centralized handling of minor procuratorial services.
"Refined case handling is the foundation, and social governance is the fundamental. In judicial practice, we not only focus on the quality and efficiency of case handling, but also comprehensively use a variety of methods to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors." The Ninth Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province is responsible for People say.
Jiang Fulin, Director of the Eighth Prosecution Department of the Fuzhou Municipal Procuratorate, said: “Fuzhou’s two-level procuratorates are advancing public interest litigation, exploring the expansion of the scope of case handling, and supervising issues such as swimming pool safety, illegal sales of drugs around campuses, and illegal acceptance of minors in entertainment venues. There were 14 recommendations from the pre-litigation prosecution."
The People’s Procuratorate of Fuqing City found in the process of participating in the comprehensive management of campus surroundings that some spectacle shops had problems such as irregular glasses, unlicensed operation, over-range business, trademark infringement, etc., which endangered the visual health of young people.
The seventh procuratorial department of the court immediately issued procuratorial recommendations to the competent administrative department after an on-site investigation.
"After receiving the procuratorial suggestions, the relevant departments seriously carried out self-examination, self-correction and comprehensive rectification on six major issues, and gave written feedback to the procuratorial organs on schedule, and achieved good results." The relevant person in charge of the Fuqing City procuratorial organ said.
Effectively improve the quality and efficiency of case handling
"Most of the new business clues such as minor public interest litigation come from the criminal cases handled by minors, which are closely connected with the traditional uninspected work, and the uninspected departments centrally handle them directly, and the quality and efficiency of case handling are further improved." 9. The relevant person in charge of the Procuratorial Department said.
"After centralized and unified handling, we have seen that minors involved in crimes are better able to return to society after being helped and educated, and minor victims are rescued to get out of their predicaments. Some prominent issues that restrict and affect the protection of minors' rights and healthy growth are also It was able to promote the solution.” said Chen Ping, director of the eighth department of the Chongqing Municipal People’s Procuratorate.
Take the People's Procuratorate of Yubei District, Chongqing City as an example. Since the pilot project was launched in January 2018, it has continuously improved the quality and efficiency of case handling by taking advantage of the unified and centralized handling of uninspected businesses.
A total of 534 criminal cases involving minors were handled by 706 people, 342 people were provided with legal assistance, 29 people were provided with psychological counseling, and 13 people were provided with judicial assistance.
"While effectively improving the quality and efficiency of case handling, centralized and unified handling also helps to achieve the unity of legal and social effects." Yue Huiqing said.
Taking the case handled by the People's Procuratorate of Fengtai District in Beijing as an example, the prosecutor found in the criminal case that the kindergarten involved in the case was an unlicensed kindergarten.
After consulting with the competent department before the lawsuit, under the supervision of the deputies of the People's Congress, the procuratorial organ urges the competent department to investigate and rectify unlicensed kindergartens within its jurisdiction.
After the governance, the social response was positive.
(Reporters Xiong Lin, Wang Bo, Zhou Wentao, Wu Shuaishuai, Wang Cheng)