South China Province Cracking Down Hard on Crime

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South China Province Cracking Down Hard on Crime

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The "spring and summer offensive", a beefed up crackdown against crimes from March to June in south China's Guangdong Province, has been crowned with a success, according to the provincial Public Security Department onFriday.

Among their accomplishments, Guangdong provincial police uncovered a total of 46,000 criminal cases and broke up over 2,200criminal gangs involving 7,900-strong gang members, a department official said.

Thanks to the crackdown, the incidence of criminal cases in Guangdong province dropped 3.2 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2002, the official said. Among them, the number of drug cases fell by 22.2 percent, and gun-related cases decreased by 35.5 percent over the same period last year. And in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, the number of drug cases lowered by 16.6 percent over the corresponding period of 2001.

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