The Ministry of Public Security will issue specific measure in
the near future to reward individuals for providing information
which lead to arrest of people who are involved in drugs-related
crimes.
Public information has become one of the most important ways for
facilitating the crackdown of illegal drugs cases, an official with
the Ministry's Drug Control Bureau said on Wednesday.
Public information has contributed to the crack of 968 illegal
drugs cases with a total of 1,104 people arrested in the first
seven months of this year, according to the official.
These cases has led to the seizure of 1,273.8 kilograms of drugs
and 7 million yuan (around US$875,000) of illegal fund.
In April 2005, China launched a People's War on Drugs, calling
on the public to report drugs-related crimes and offering rewards
for information that led to the arrest of traffickers.
Ten provinces, regions and municipalities including Yunnan and
Shanghai have already established a pilot rewarding system.
And the police have so far given more than 600,000 yuan
(US$75,000) to the public for their information on illegal drug
crimes, according to the Ministry.
In southwest China's Yunnan Province, one of the worst-plagued
areas by drug-trafficking in the country, police investigated 694
cases with the help of the public from January to August this year,
seizing 1,008 kilograms of drugs.
(Xinhua News Agency November 16, 2006)