A senior Chinese police officer Thursday vowed to give more enforced strikes against human trafficking and urged public security organs to complete the DNA database for identification of the abducted children.
The police authorities at all levels should acquire more help from the public by asking for information, Zhang Xinfeng, vice minister of Public Security, said in a statement released by the ministry's Web site on Thursday.
The officer urged police authorities at all levels to continue their efforts to deal with human trafficking, an increasing social problem in China that seriously violates human rights.
The Public Security Ministry launched a special campaign involving police forces throughout the country between April 9 and May 4 to crack down on human trafficking crimes.
On April 29, the ministry published a top-wanted circular listing ten human trafficking suspects who escaped from the nationwide campaign .
So far two of the ten have been arrested and the rest are still at large.
Wei Jiapei, a 28-year-old east China's Shandong native, has been arrested. He and other three accomplices kidnapped a one-year-old infant from a woman's arms on a street in his hometown and then sold the infant to another city in the province.
According to the ministry, police authorities around the country rescued 196 children and 214 women during the campaign and destroyed 72 human trafficking rings in the country.
Most of the human trafficking crimes occurred in Guizhou, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi Provinces.
In a trafficking case cracked in Jiangsu, police rescuers found that a kidnapped woman was tortured by six traffickers who forced her to prostitute.
In another case in Shanxi, six women were beguiled by a trafficking gang with labor jobs and sold to farmers as "wives."
To identify trafficked children more quickly and accurately, the ministry has started the compilation of a nationwide DNA database by collecting blood samples from the rescued children and parents who lost their children.
Zhang Xinfeng stressed that all police organs should be able to collect blood samples from the parents who have been confirmed to have lost their children, parents who actively ask for donating their blood samples, rescued children, children with unknown origin and are suspected of trafficking experience and homeless children in streets.
(Xinhua News Agency May 15, 2009)
