"The centralized destruction campaign has officially begun!" On the morning of 17 October, with an order, the Shanghai public security organs' concentrated destruction of illegal firearms and explosives activities with the theme of "eliminating guns and explosives, eliminating disasters, and protecting people's safety" was officially launched. In accordance with the deployment requirements of the Ministry of Public Security, the Shanghai police carried out a centralized destruction of a batch of illegal firearms and explosives such as imitation guns and controlled knives.
Since the beginning of this year, the Shanghai public security organs have relied on the summer public security crackdown and rectification action of the national public security organs to promote the special action to crack down on and rectify the illegal and criminal activities of guns and explosives, and have always maintained a "zero tolerance" attitude towards the illegal crimes of guns and explosives, effectively safeguarding the safety and stability of Shanghai. Since the beginning of this year, the Shanghai public security organs have investigated and dealt with more than 20 cases involving guns and explosives, and seized more than 900 imitation guns and more than 3,100 controlled knives.
In order to strictly manage the safety of firearms and explosives, the Shanghai police focus on prevention and control at the source, urge the units involved in firearms and explosives to implement the main responsibility, strictly implement the safety management system, promptly discover and rectify the hidden dangers of problems, and strive to eliminate safety risks from the source. At the same time, the police force was organized to conduct in-depth investigations in areas prone to the occurrence of hidden dangers of firearms and explosives, intensified the investigation of areas such as the passage into Shanghai, promptly discovered and confiscated illegal firearms and explosives, and strictly prevented the occurrence of all kinds of firearms and explosives.
The Shanghai police call on the general public to fully understand the harmfulness of illegal firearms and explosives, consciously resist staying away from illegal firearms and explosives, actively report clues about illegal crimes involving guns and explosives, and work together with the police to maintain urban public safety.
In the next step, the Shanghai police will continue to maintain a high-pressure posture against illegal and criminal activities involving guns and explosives, further strengthen the investigation and seizure, improve the safety supervision and governance capabilities of guns and explosives, and contribute to Shanghai's acceleration of building a modern socialist international metropolis with world influence.