The public security organs carried out a three-year special operation in depth——
Protecting Wildlife, Protecting the Beauty of Diversity (Rule of Law Headline)
Qi Yukun, reporter of this newspaper
After a spring snowfall, on Erlang Mountain in Tianquan County, Ya'an, Sichuan, it was covered in silver. Snow wrapped around tree branches, and clouds shrouded people. Starting from the bottom of the mountain, winding up, a few birds chirp from time to time in the quiet Horn River Nature Reserve, and the deep and shallow sambar hoof prints are clearly visible. During the drive, there are occasional macaques, curiously watching the guests visiting the mountain. People shuttling through the mountain road breathe the cool fresh air and feel the ecological landscape of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
A good ecological environment and rich animal and plant resources are inseparable from the joint protection of public security organs and other departments. In recent years, the Tianquan County Public Security Bureau has set up a panda police brigade, improved regional coordination, departmental linkage, combined operations, remote mountain patrols, and mass prevention and mass management mechanisms, and successively detected many cases such as the "12.3" case of endangering precious and endangered wild animals by the Ministry of Superintendent, effectively escorting the construction of Giant Panda National Park.
This is a portrayal of the remarkable results achieved by the national public security organs in carrying out a three-year special operation to combat crimes involving wild animals. According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security, from 2020 to 2022, local public security organs, together with relevant departments, severely cracked down on and rectified all kinds of criminal activities involving wild animals in accordance with the law, resolutely maintained biodiversity, and strongly promoted source control and ecological protection.
Field Patrol
Effectively protect wildlife resources in key areas
In the jurisdiction of the Baidaoshan Police Station of the Suiyang Branch of the Forest District Public Security Bureau in Heilongjiang Province, red deer, foxes and even tigers and leopards are often haunted, and wild animal resources are abundant.
In order to maintain the ecological environment of the jurisdiction and combat illegal poaching, the police patrol almost every day, and at the same time conduct night patrols in key areas from time to time. Four or five people lined up in a row, separated by two or three meters, for twenty or thirty kilometers for seven or eight hours, experienced veterans explored the way in front of the group, and everyone accompanying them carried bags containing police equipment and dry food.
"During the journey, the team members will record the status of vegetation, animal waste and other ecological environment information along the way, and clean up the hunting traps and hunting traps laid by criminals in time to create a safe home for wild animals." At the same time, we regularly put corn stalks, corn on the cob, soybeans and other foods in places where wild animals are frequented. Teng Lizhi, director of the Baidao Mountain Police Station, said.
After participating in patrols many times, many police officers have become "soil experts" in the field of wildlife protection. "Field patrols can not only find and stop some acts of destroying wildlife resources, effectively prevent crimes of destroying wildlife resources, but also monitor the types and populations of wild animals in the area, find out the 'family background', and treat injured animals in time." Hou Lin, a professor at Nanjing Forest Police College, said.
Every winter, the Tianquan County Panda Police Brigade will join hands with Erlangshan State-owned Forest Farm, Horn River Nature Reserve Management Office and other units to organize a team of more than 10 people to carry out patrols in the distant mountains.
"Every year, five patrols are carried out focusing on winter, covering an area of 5 square kilometers. After perseverance and efforts in recent years, the Far Mountain Patrol Team has destroyed 600 poaching and logging gangs, cleaned up 2 hunting traps and hunting traps, and collected more than 230,6000 pieces of data. Luo Hongkang, deputy county magistrate of Tianquan County, secretary of the party committee and director of the public security bureau, said.
During one patrol, the team spotted a sambar standing in the river in the valley, looking around. When the team was ready to step forward, the sambar tried to make a running motion, but it was very difficult. Sambar is a national second-class protected animal, experienced police saw that it had scratches on its body, mobility difficulties, guessed that it may be injured, so they quickly contacted the county public security bureau forest police brigade to send people to send reinforcements. At the same time, policeman Feng Zhiyuan took off his shoes and socks, walked into the somewhat turbulent river, and carried the sambar to the shore. The police who arrived sent the injured sambar to the wildlife rescue station as soon as possible, so that they could be treated in time.
The relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that local public security organs have carried out patrols in key wildlife activity areas, so that wildlife resources can be protected in a timely and effective manner, effectively deterring illegal crimes involving wildlife resources, and maintaining social security stability and ecological security.
Strike at the source
Maintain a high-pressure deterrent posture at all times
"We ban hunting in the county, but recently strangers often come to the village to buy wild animals." In September last year, three police officers from the Forest Police Brigade of the Zhirong County Public Security Bureau in Ningde City, Fujian Province, visited homes in Dongyuan Township.
After obtaining the clues, the Zhirong County Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation, and finally determined the specific location of the den involved in the case through a large number of touching and visiting. Subsequently, the police formulated an arrest plan, quickly arrested three criminal suspects, and seized a batch of frozen bodies, live bodies of wild animals and a large number of hunting tools. The police handling the case followed the line of investigation and found out that the organizer of the upstream of the criminal chain was Liang from a certain place in another province.
"In order to further dig deeper into the case, the Forest Police Corps of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department upgraded the level of investigation, and set up a special case team at the provincial, municipal and county levels to tackle important cases. The police of the special case team further sorted out the clues in Liang's case, and found a number of clues involving relevant illegal and criminal personnel in other provinces. Xu Rengui, chief of the Forest Police Corps of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department, introduced.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit, the police of the special case team grasped the criminal facts of Liang's illegal sale of electronic hunting clips, and immediately rushed outside the province to successfully arrest Liang, completely destroying Liang and other criminal gangs that had been illegally hunting for a long time and endangered precious and endangered wild animals, and the gang members involved many provinces.
"Liang's illegally sold electronic hunting clips are sold separately in the form of components, and the buyer receives the goods and then assembles them according to the video, which is difficult to supervise." Lin Zenan, the police officer handling the case and the captain of the investigation squadron of the forest police brigade of the Zhirong County Public Security Bureau, introduced that compared with the traditional hunting method, the electronic hunting clip has the characteristics of higher hunting efficiency, simpler laying, and easier preservation of live animals, and is more harmful to wild animals and even the ecological environment.
Sichuan Ya'an "12.3" endangering precious and endangered wild animals case, Fujian Ningde "10.11" illegal hunting case... In the past three years, the Ministry of Public Security has supervised 3 batches of major cases involving wild animals, and all 45 major and important cases have been solved. Public security organs across the country investigated and handled more than 150,7 cases of crimes involving wild animals, confiscating 137.18 million head of wild animals and <>,<> kilograms of wild animal products.
"On the basis of consolidating and deepening the results of the special operation, the public security organs will deeply explore clues, strengthen the tackling of major cases, continue to deepen the crackdown and rectification in conjunction with relevant departments, always maintain a high-pressure deterrent situation against prominent illegal crimes involving wild animals, strive to achieve greater results, and contribute public security forces to maintaining biodiversity and national ecological security, and promoting harmonious coexistence between man and nature." The relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said.
Improve mechanisms
The level of law enforcement capacity has been further improved
On the coast of the Bohai Sea, there are about 1630,600 species of wild animals in the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong, and more than <> million birds breed, winter and migrate here every year.
Yang Huazhang is a police officer in the Nature Conservation District Bureau of the Dongying Public Security Bureau and an "ecological police chief". In the process of law enforcement, the "ecological police chiefs" make full use of technological means such as image surveillance to carry out round-the-clock video inspections to improve the ability to quickly investigate and deal with illegal cases.
"We actively strengthen work docking with departments such as ecology and environment and natural resources, establish work coordination systems such as information reports, case transfers, joint meetings, and joint law enforcement, and regularly carry out joint logistics and joint law enforcement, so as to achieve seamless connection between execution and punishment, and form a joint force for preventing and cracking down on illegal crimes in the field of ecology and environment." Yang Huazhang introduced.
In recent years, local public security organs have improved law enforcement systems and mechanisms, further promoted cross-regional police cooperation, accelerated departmental coordination and joint governance, and squeezed the space for illegal and criminal activities in the ecological and environmental field to the greatest extent.
The Forest Police Corps of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department has set up a "forest chief + police chief" liaison office, strengthened communication and coordination with the Fuzhou Commissioner Office of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and other departments, and made concerted efforts in cross-regional law enforcement cooperation and integrated project crackdowns, and refined the grid management of forest areas; Jiangsu Yangzhou public security mobilized river and lake police chiefs, community police, auxiliary police, water-related law enforcement personnel, fisher guards, and grid personnel to comprehensively implement the "three police and three members" water grid governance; Tianjin Public Security continues to strengthen the "public security + environmental protection" law enforcement linkage mechanism, which has effectively improved the overall efficiency of ecological governance...
"Since the launch of the special operation, the Ministry of Public Security has cooperated with and worked with relevant departments to formulate and issue more than 10 judicial interpretations, guiding opinions and management measures for combating crimes involving wild animals, forming a number of institutional achievements and continuously strengthening the legal guarantee of wildlife protection." The relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that the professional strength of the public security organs to combat crimes involving wild animals and other ecological and environmental fields has been reshaped as a whole, and the level of law enforcement capabilities has been improved.
The newly revised Wildlife Protection Law will come into force on May 5. Not long ago, the Ministry of Public Security deployed the "Kunlun 1" special operation, which listed the fight against wildlife crimes as the key content of the special operation, requiring public security organs to improve the level of law enforcement, make full use of existing legal weapons, adhere to the criminal policy of leniency and strictness, strengthen relevant legal policy guarantees, and strive to achieve the unity of legal, social and political effects.
In this regard, Hou Lin said that on the one hand, the public security organs should strictly enforce the law, understand the pattern of common species involved in the case in their jurisdiction, and severely punish criminals in accordance with the law in a more targeted manner; On the other hand, it is necessary to do a good job in popularizing the law, expose some typical cases of destroying wildlife resources, and use the case to create a strong deterrent momentum. (People's Daily)