Guangdong police's war against the illegal drug world has proved
victorious -- blitzing open 104 huge drug-related crimes, and
detaining 1,744 suspects.
The special crackdown took place between October 25 and Sunday.
A
total of 170,340 grams of heroin, 13,775 grams of "ice," popular
name for methamphetamine hydrochloride, and more than 300,000
ecstasy pills were seized during the campaign, titled Chunlei
Action (Spring Thunder).
In
addition to domestic people, the suspects include three foreigners,
and 261 Hong Kong and Macao residents.
Chunlei Action was jointly conducted by Guangdong Provincial Bureau
of Public Security and its counterparts from Hong Kong and Macao
special administrative regions (SAR).
Zheng Dong, director of the criminal investigation department under
Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security, said a large amount
of cash and criminal tools for drug purchase and production were
seized.
Addressing a press conference yesterday, Zheng said the action had
administered a significant blow to drug production and drug-related
crimes in the prosperous southern Chinese region, including Hong
Kong and Macao SARs.
Zheng said more than 110,000 police from his bureau participated in
Chunlei Action, the second of its kind in Guangdong. The first took
place in April.
They investigated a total of 58,255 suspected entertainment venues
in the province during the campaign, which proved most fruitful in
the cities of Guangzhou -- capital of Guangdong Province -- Foshan,
Dongguan, Shenzhen and Zhuhai special economic zones, Zheng
said.
A
number of drug processing bases and sales centers were targeted in
the cities. And a drug trafficking organization, which illegally
smuggled drugs from Kunming in Yunnan Province to Guangdong
Province bordering Hong Kong, was believed to have been
successfully taken down in the wake of Chunlei Action.
Zheng said a drug distribution center was destroyed in Dongguan
during the Chunlei Action.
(China
Daily November 7, 2001)