Chinese police have cracked more than 1,300 criminal gangs in the latest campaign against organized crime, authorities said.

By the end of October, police had referred 196 cases of alleged organized crime for prosecution and 1,347 crime gangs had been broken, according to the office for national campaign against organized crime.

In China, organized crime gangs are often protected by public officials, state staff through bribery, threats or other means and have certain domains.

Prosecutors had been exposing the "umbrellas" covering gangs, with 33 cases uncovered involving 47 state workers, said Huang Hailong, deputy director of the investigation and supervision department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Meanwhile, police put 3.75 million criminal cases on file for investigation in the first ten months, 41,000 fewer, or 1.1 percent down, from the same period last year and the number of cases resolved increased by 113,000 to 2.21 million, the office said.

"In general, public security has been relatively stable this year," a spokesman from the office said.

Source: Xinhua