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Guangdong cracking down on crimes
The Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security is considering establishing a special task force to handle the growing number of kidnappings in its jurisdiction.
The task force could include senior criminal investigation police, negotiators and criminal psychologists. Latest reports indicate that in the first half of this year Guangdong police cracked more than 130 kidnapping cases, up 7.5 per cent from the same period last year. The number of kidnapping cases in June witnessed even bigger monthly growth, with a little over one-third more than in May, said Zheng Shaodong, deputy director-general of the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security. Most of the victims were investors from Taiwan and Hong Kong, wealthy local residents and school children. In late February, police in Dongguan solved a serious kidnapping case, detaining five suspects who snatched a Taiwan investor and murdered him after receiving ransom from his family valued at more than HK$2 million (US$260,000). The suspects include a Taiwan resident and four jobless people from outside Guangdong Province. Meanwhile, Zheng is urging tourists and visitors to refrain from visiting prostitutes when they arrive in the province. His warning came after 484 robbery cases involving hookers were investigated in the province in the first six months of this year. The figure represents a big increase over last year. Guangdong has handled the largest number of such robbery cases in the Chinese mainland this year. More than 80 per cent of the robbery victims have come from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas. Addressing a media conference in Guangzhou on Saturday, Zheng said most of the cases have been cracked in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Foshan and other prosperous cities in the Pearl River Delta which borders the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. The robbers usually use prostitutes to lure their targets in local streets, piers, hotels and entertainment venues. The victims are then robbed, extorted and swindled, Zheng said. Last month, police rescued two Hong Kong residents who were left naked and tied up in a house in Shenzhen. The victims had followed two prostitutes they met in a local street to a house, where they were robbed of all their properties. And the robbers, who pretended to be police, even took away the victims' underwear to prevent them from escaping. Zheng said the two victims were fortunate because they were rescued by police. Some people have been killed by robbers, Zheng said. He added Guangdong's social order is still a serious problem, despite the recent achievements in fighting crime. |
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