Police Hammer Car Thieves and Robbers

2002/08/01

Thefts of vehicles, and robberies from cars, in the Chinese capital have fallen by a dramatic 14 percent in the first half of the year, compared with the same period of 2001, a city police spokesman has announced.

Statistics show the police cleared 257 such cases in the period, 36.7 percent more than during the first six months of last year. In doing so, they broke 18 criminal gangs, arrested 252 suspects and recovered 458 stolen vehicles. Police success was in part due to information from criminal sources. In all, 1,247 suspects were arrested before the end of June, 560 more than between January and June last year, the spokesman said.



	Article featured in Beijing This Month, August 2002 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Tourism