Prosecutor General's Work Report
China's Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming stated the central government will step up the inspection of prisons, with more resources and surprise checks, to prevent inmates from being bullied or tortured. The main points that came up from Cao's work report are:
- Increase efforts to provide judicial support to maintain the steady growth of the national economy by actively pursuing criminal cases by the public prosecutor's office.
- Step up efforts to maintain social harmony and stability through strict law enforcement.
- Give importance to public safety and their livelihood through better legal oversight of the food industry. This includes the production and sale of poisonous and harmful food and medicine. In addition, investigate negligence and accountability in cases where there is a breach of workplace safety and food security.
- Strengthen legal oversight over litigation for maintaining and promoting judicial justice.
- Improve the transparency and credibility of law enforcement by procuratorial organs.
- Improve the competence of procurators.
Cai acknowledge in 2008, the total number of arrest came up to 952,583 suspects for numerous crimes and 1,143,897 were prosecuted. This was an increase of 3.5 percent and 5.7 percent from the last year.
- Efforts against corruption
There were 33,546 cases relating to corruption, misconduct and violation on people's human rights investigated. This involved 41,179 people. The total prosecuted were 33,953 people involved in 26,684 such cases. Out of the total there were 17,594 serious corruption cases, 3,211 major cases of misconduct and violations on people's human rights, and 2,687 officials at all levels of public office.
The prosecutor general also indicated 10,315 cases of commercial bribery committed by government officials were investigated. This involved a total sum of more than 2.1 billion yuan.
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