Reporters recently sailed at night in the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River, and could clearly feel the changes brought about by the crackdown on illegal sand mining. Before 2021, when the law enforcement officers enforced the law at night, the sand stealing boats wandered around the sensitive waters waiting for an opportunity to steal sand, and now it is hard to find the sand stealing boats on the banks of the river. Driven
by huge profits, the phenomenon of sand theft has been difficult to stop. Reporter interviews have learned that since 2021, Shanghai Water Bureau, Shanghai Branch of Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau and other parties have innovated mechanisms in joint cruise and joint case handling, and a number of sand theft gangs have been uprooted, which has fundamentally curbed the momentum of illegal sand mining.
"a ship in the waters of Qingcaosha deliberately closed its navigation positioning and stayed for a long time, suspected of stealing sand ships!" Xu Lei, deputy chief of the law enforcement team of Shanghai Water Bureau, told reporters that at the end of March, the law enforcement team received a clue from the maritime department and rushed to the scene with the Changhang Public Security Bureau.
Water law enforcement is responsible for the implementation of the detention point, custody of the ship involved, long navigation public security to take compulsory measures against the personnel involved, dig clues. With tacit cooperation, the joint law enforcement team successfully tracked down another sand dredger that jointly committed criminal acts and wiped out the criminal gangs. Strike hard
under high pressure, strike at the outcrop, and strike deeply and thoroughly. Data show that in 2021 alone, the Shanghai Branch of the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau cracked 13 sand-related cases and eliminated 8 illegal sand mining criminal gangs. Among them, 2 cases were selected as typical cases of the Ministry of Public Security cracking down on illegal sand mining in the Yangtze River.
The interviewees recalled that during a night cruise inspection, the sand thieves ignored the warning and forced the anchor to escape. The joint law enforcement team pursued for more than two hours, and finally succeeded in controlling the stolen sand ship and the people involved.
"We focus on the waters with high incidence of cases, beaches and sand dunes, combine high-frequency normal patrol with surprise inspection in key periods, and rely on intelligent security equipment to timely grasp the dynamics of people and ships, and weave a dense security prevention and control network in the waters of Shanghai section of the Yangtze River." Yu Xin, deputy head of the criminal investigation detachment of the Shanghai Branch of the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau, said.
Step forward and explore collaboratively. Law enforcement officials said that sand theft vessels are the source of illegal sand mining, but due to the long process of criminal justice disposal, the captured vessels involved in the case can not be dismantled or released in a short time, the regulatory authorities should not only pay the cost of custody, but also worry about the "re-emergence" of these vessels.
Mechanism innovation has turned this "headache" around. "We have taken the initiative to study with the public security, procuratorates and courts to make it clear that the Shanghai Water Department can directly confiscate the vessels involved in the case that meet certain conditions, such as the" three nothingness "sand theft vessels." Xu Lei introduced that the confiscation and auction of stolen sand ships from "passive waiting" to "active disposal" will help to form a deterrent effect of strict and quick attack.
In 2021, a total of 14 sand theft vessels were dismantled in accordance with the law, and the "three nothingness" sand theft vessels have not shown any signs of resurgence in the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River.
The four-party linkage, the law enforcement team of Shanghai Water Affairs Bureau, the Shanghai Branch of the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau, the Shanghai Railway Transport Procuratorate and the Shanghai Railway Transport Court jointly refine the working mechanism of information exchange; the two sides cooperate to deal with the regulatory difficulties in the border waters between Shanghai and Jiangsu, and organize the joint Qingjiang Action every quarter..
Synergy is not limited to the regulatory authorities. Recently, the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River held a special conference on the regulation of illegal sand mining, which was attended by the heads of several major water-related projects and representatives of shipowners in the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River.
Yu Xin introduced that on the one hand, this is to mobilize more social forces and make it easier to find clues to sand theft. On the other hand, it is also to prevent new situations such as sand theft in the name of dredging, to warn relevant parties to exploit and dispose of river sand legally and in compliance with regulations, and to form a situation of police-civilian co-governance.
Reporters learned from the Shanghai Water Bureau that with the continuous optimization of the relevant working mechanism, the cooperation of various departments has become more and more tacit. Since the second half of 2021, the number of illegal sand mining cases detected in the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River has decreased significantly, and the river sand in the areas with high incidence of illegal sand mining has shown a natural growth trend, with zero cases and zero reports of illegal sand mining in the whole year of 2022.
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