Chinanews.com, Beijing, May 31 (Reporter Xing Chong) The National Immigration Administration held a regular press conference on the 31st to report the phased situation and typical cases of the special struggle against crimes that interfere with the management of the country (border).
Liu Haitao, director of the Border Inspection and Management Department of the National Immigration Administration, said at the meeting that smuggling crimes on the southwest border of China are highly organized and two-way smuggling is obvious.
Liu Haitao said that China’s southwestern border is long and the geographical environment is complex. Many border residents live across the border and have frequent exchanges, reflecting the obvious characteristics of two-way smuggling. There are both foreigners smuggling into the country and Chinese illegal personnel smuggling out of the country to engage in gambling fraud. And other cross-border illegal and criminal activities.
He mentioned that the crime of smuggling across the southwest border also shows a high degree of criminal organization.
"Smuggling criminal gangs have detailed division of labor, secretive and diverse contact methods, switching to multiple modes of transportation, and switching between multiple smuggling lines, which brings new challenges to prevention, control and combat."
Liu Haitao also said that in the criminal activities of smuggling across the southwest border, a small number of border personnel at home and abroad are familiar with local conditions and are motivated by interests to participate in smuggling activities and provide conveniences such as lead, transport, and accommodation for criminals who attempt to smuggle.
In December 2020, the Ministry of Public Security deployed a special campaign to focus on combating crimes that interfered with national (border) border management.
According to Liu Haitao, taking Guangxi and Yunnan frontier inspection stations as examples, since the launch of the special struggle, a total of 1,509 criminal cases of obstructing national (border) border management have been cracked, 4537 suspects have been arrested, and 151 criminal gangs destroyed.
He emphasized that in the future, he will continue to open the way, increase the crackdown on organizers, "snakeheads" backbone, and lead and transport personnel, focus on fighting gangs, destroy networks, and break channels, and form a combination of punches with multiple police types to severely crack down. Various cross-border illegal and criminal activities; strengthen border control, continue to consolidate the "party, government, military, police and civilian" five-in-one strong border defense mechanism, promote and cooperate with local party committees and governments to strengthen the construction of border air defense, material defense, and technical defense facilities, and optimize Layout of border control forces and build a three-dimensional border prevention and control system that combines “points, lines, and areas”.
In addition, Liu Haitao also emphasized that education warnings will be strengthened, through media reports, case analysis, public presentations and other methods to explain the law, strengthen publicity and warning education, continue to enhance the public’s awareness of national security, national boundaries and legal awareness, and continue to create a common sense for the whole society. Prevent and combat the strong atmosphere of criminal activities that hinder the management of the country (border).
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