Keeping crimes in check

In the first half of 2009, the Beijing police solved more than 33,000 crime cases and eliminated more than 1,300 organized criminal gangs, according to figures from the 2009 Annual Report on Public Service of Beijing published by the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences.

Almost 90 percent of the murder cases and all the kidnap cases were solved in the same period of time, and every hostage was successfully rescued by the police, the report said.

Tightened security forces have helped keep serious crimes in check and prevented minor cases from escalating, said Liu Ruibin, head of the operations department of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.