Detention centers to open to public

BEIJING - With a rising level of public supervision, China's top police department will make more effort to rid the detention houses under its power of a daunting public profile, reported the China Youth Daily on Monday, quoting an official in direct charge.

The official made the remark as security issues for detention centers holding criminal suspects has aroused enormous public concern in the wake of an inmate's unnatural death early last year.

Authorities will increase the transparency of the regulation of detention houses and expand the public's right to both know and supervise relevant police jobs in the future, Zhao Chunguang, an official in charge of the country's detention houses with the Ministry of Public Security, the top police department, told the newspaper.