Protecting rights of police will improve law enforcement

ON SUNDAY, the Ministry of Public Security published a draft regulation on its website soliciting public opinions, which said that if any police officer violates the legal rights and interests of individuals or organizations, the public security department, not the policeman as an individual, will pay compensation. Fawan.com comments:

By clearly defining that local police departments, not individual police officers, bear the responsibility for paying compensation, the draft will enable police officers to be braver and fight crimes with their utmost efforts in the future.

Ironically, some people complain to the superiors of the police when the police enforce the law. Earlier this month, for instance, a man surnamed Liu blocked the entrance of a parking lot with his car in Shiyan, Central China's Hubei province, and used harsh language against the police officer who asked him to move his vehicle. Later, he called the local mayor's hotline to complain against the police officer, whose innocence was proved by CCTV video.