East China’s Jiangsu province has beefed up the crackdown on epidemic-related crimes to guarantee people's rights and interests, imposing harsh punishment and creating a favorable judicial environment in the fight against the virus outbreak.

Jiangsu launched law enforcement campaigns to crack down on crimes that impede epidemic prevention and control and infringe on people's livelihood, and other criminal acts such as posting and disseminating rumors and scams on the Internet.

Since late January, the province has dealt with 3399 criminal cases accused of interfering with epidemic prevention and control by detaining 2854 suspects.

The public security bureaus at all levels in the province have also dealt with 11,248 cases of public security administration and detained 2,249 suspects for administrative offenses.

Chen Xu, deputy director of the provincial public security department

We have dispatched 55000 officers

to be on duty every day

and launched law enforcement campaigns

to crack down crimes

accused of interfering

with epidemic prevention and control

The police has also busted online fraud cases for publishing false information online pretending they had masks, protective clothing and frontal thermometer for sale.

Wang Fanglin, Deputy Procurator General of Jiangsu Procuratorate

Some criminals have a fluke mind

and believe that publishing fake information

on the Internet to swindle money

is simple and concealed

but the law enforcement agencies

are fully capable of

launching precise crackdown on the crimes

China’s Ministry of Public Security, together with the State Administration for Market Regulation, has required local authorities to strengthen the coordination of law enforcement and justice departments to strictly and promptly punish hiking up prices of protective equipment and daily commodities.

A total of seven types of crimes were made public, including violence against medical workers, manufacturing and selling fake products, price gouging and jeopardizing wildlife resources.