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Dec. 16 - A top legal official has stressed that the establishment of special bureaus tackling civil servants' dereliction of duty and abuses of power shows the authorities are ready to deal with the problem.
Twenty-four such bureaus have so far been established at the provincial1 level since the Supreme2 People's Procuratorate ordered the renaming and upgrading of the anti-dereliction and infringement4 sections of procuratorates to bureaus in May last year. In the latest development, procuratorates at all levels in Shanghai finished the upgrade this month. The upgrade means that these bureaus have the same status as anti-corruption5 bureaus and gives them more powers during investigations6. In line with the upgrade, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a regulation on the definition and categorization of dereliction and infringement crimes this July. "To some extent, dereliction crimes bring more harm than embezzlement7," Song Hansong, deputy director of the anti-dereliction and infringement department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, was quoted by the People's Daily as saying. Dereliction of duty and abuses of power mean activities by civil servants that cause the loss of State assets or infringe3 upon people's rights. Unlike other kinds of corruption such as taking bribes8 or embezzlement, dereliction often does not bring direct benefits to officials and is therefore referred to as "corruption that does not make its way to the pocket." An analysis of cases in 1998, 1999 and 2000 shows that the average economic losses involved in embezzlement cases were 258,000 yuan (US$33,000), while the sum in dereliction cases was 2.85 million yuan (US$364,000), Song said. "This doesn't even include the harm caused to people's health," he told the paper. The new bureaus deal with as many as 42 crimes, many more than the 12 crimes overseen9 by anti-corruption bureaus. Song said corruption is always linked with dereliction and the abuse of power. Judging from the cases in recent years, corruption always lurks10 behind dereliction and the abuse of power, while bribery11 always encourages officials to abuse their power," he was quoted as saying. Officials guilty of dereliction of duty are often involved with serious production safety accidents, food safety crisis or suspects' false confessions12, the paper reported. Eleven dereliction cases involving 88 people have been uncovered in connection with a series of serious mining accidents that claimed hundreds of lives this year, Song said. In these cases, the guilty officials often failed to conduct safety inspections14 or protected the owners of illegal coal mines. At a meeting last month, Li Yizhong, minister of the State Administration of Work Safety, said dereliction of duty and corruption would always be investigated whenever an accident occurred. Song said the biggest obstacle in terms of the inspection13 of the dereliction of duty is a prevalent lack of knowledge of the grave consequence of these crimes.
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