The Chinese Ministry of Public Security is making efforts to beef
up international cooperation to combat global crimes, cross-border
crimes and terrorist activities.
"Criminal laws have already been drafted in strict accordance to
the international conventions signed to crackdown on crimes
endangering the aviation industry, the organizing and masterminding
of terrorist activities, the illegal transaction and trafficking in
nuclear materials," said Zhang Xinfeng, Director of the Criminal
Investigation Department of the Ministry of Public Security.
Zhang was speaking at the four-day ,Transnational Organized Crime
Conference titled "Bridging the GAP- a Global Alliance
Perspective on Transnational Organized Crime," which opened at the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Monday.
The ministry has also embarked on new Mutual Legal Assistance
Agreement initiatives by entering into international conventions to
fight terrorist activities, particularly those threatening the
aviation industry.
"China has signed international mutual legal assistance protocols
and indictment treaties in an effort to implement crime-fighting
initiatives in wide-ranging areas," he said.
As
the Chinese mainland is developing market economy and undergoing
economic structural changes, there is a need to improve the
policing and crime prevention mechanism to guard against a
possibility of criminals cooperating with overseas criminals, he
remarked.
Zhang stressed that China is also set to strengthen the exchange of
police intelligence with other countries.
Special departments within the police have already been set up to
combat crimes, and the government has also been enlisting the
support from the citizens and encourage the active reporting
crimes, he added.
(Xinhua News
Agency March 19, 2002)