China News Service, February 23 (Xinhua) According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of Public Security, during the Spring Festival, public security agencies across the country comprehensively strengthened various security and stability measures to ensure that the people celebrate the New Year in a safe and peaceful atmosphere. As of 17:00 on February 23, the overall social situation across the country was stable and public security order was good. Criminal police incidents dropped by 12.1% year-on-year. More than 5,440 large-scale activities were safe and smooth. The road traffic safety situation was stable and orderly, and tourist attractions were in order.
This year's Spring Festival holiday lasts for 9 days, which is known as the "longest Spring Festival holiday". People are enthusiastic about returning to their hometowns, the flow of people, logistics and vehicles is intensive, and large-scale events are held intensively. The Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security attaches great importance to security and stability during the Spring Festival holiday, and has conducted many studies and deployments, requiring public security agencies across the country to accurately grasp the characteristics of social security patterns at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, strengthen emergency duty, command and dispatch, implement leadership guidance, duty preparation and other systems, and implement various measures for prevention, control and construction. During the festival, the Ministry of Public Security strengthens organizational leadership and overall command, monitors the social situation across the country on a daily basis, and makes targeted deployments. The responsible comrades of the public security organs at all levels stick to their posts and take command from the front. The civilian police and auxiliary policemen perform their duties with loyalty and dedication, and strictly implement various security and stability measures.
Public security agencies in various places have comprehensively strengthened the overall social prevention and control, strictly implemented the rapid response mechanism, scientifically arranged and deployed police forces, set up 29,000 duty points, and invested an average of 480,000 police personnel per day. They have effectively strengthened patrols and prevention and control in key locations and crowded places such as prosperous business districts, city squares, transportation hubs, etc., and strengthened the crackdown on crimes and prominent public security issues during festivals, effectively maintaining good social security order. The immigration management department strengthened port and border service management and ensured smooth customs clearance for more than 16.4 million people.
In view of holiday traffic travel patterns and regional traffic characteristics, the public security organs have studied and judged the deployment in advance and conducted timely command and dispatch. Public security and traffic control departments in various places have invested a total of 1.377 million police personnel and dispatched 596,000 police vehicles to strengthen traffic control on key roads, strictly investigate prominent traffic violations such as drunk driving, and strengthen severe weather traffic emergency command and safety reminders to ensure that the national road traffic safety situation is generally stable. Railway and civil aviation public security agencies paid close attention to the implementation of various transportation safety measures, ensuring the safe travel of 120 million railway passengers and 21.18 million civil aviation passengers.
In view of the intensive holding of large-scale activities such as temple fairs, lantern festivals and folk culture, and the intensive passenger flow in tourist attractions in various places, the public security organs worked with relevant departments to actively carry out investigation and rectification of potential safety hazards, supervise and consolidate the responsibilities of safety subjects, and ensured that 93.1 million people visited safely and orderly.
