In response to the epidemic, the smugglers switched to sea smuggling and formed a fleet to transport smuggled goods to and from China and Hong Kong at high speed by ant moving. When law enforcement officers chased them and escaped, there were 3 customs officers and 1 marine policeman in the last two years. Die in duty.
The number of smuggling cases detected by the customs and the police in 2019 and 2020, before and after the epidemic, also reflects that smuggling at sea has become more rampant.
Take the number of cases resolved in the Marine Police Command as an example, the increase has more than doubled, and the market value of seized smuggled goods has increased by more than 4.5 times from more than 65 million yuan in 2019 to 368 million yuan in 2020.
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According to the figures provided by the police, the Marine Police Region has 19 cases involving maritime smuggling enforcement in 2019. By January 2020, when the epidemic broke out, land ports were closed and smugglers changed to sea. The number of cases in the whole year more than doubled to 41; as for the first eight months of this year, there were 38 cases, which is double the number in 2019.
The market value of seized maritime smuggled goods and the number of arrests also increased significantly.
The value of seized goods in 2019 exceeded 65 million yuan, a sharp increase of 4.5 times to 368 million yuan in 2020; even in the first eight months of this year, the value of seized goods has reached 96 million yuan.
In terms of the number of arrests, 27 people were arrested in 2019 and 66 people were arrested in 2020. In the first eight months of this year, 46 people were arrested, and the number is also far higher than in 2019.
According to customs data, comparing the whole year of 2019 and 2020, the number of smuggling by land has been reduced by half from 110 to 54, but the number of smuggling by sea has increased by nearly 30% from 91 to 120.
The customs cracked sea, land and air smuggling cases, and the market value of the seized goods rose from 476 million yuan in 2019 to 808 million yuan in 2020.
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Affected by the closure of the epidemic, smugglers have switched to smuggling by sea. According to the analysis of the concern group, the mainland and Hong Kong have not cleared customs for a long time. Some products under the Hong Kong duty-free policy are cheaper, and mainland customers are more confident in the quality of Hong Kong products. The smuggling situation under the epidemic has not stopped due to three major reasons.
The smugglers were lawless, and they openly formed a fleet to transport cargo. Even when they were chased by the police, they escaped at a high speed in order to get away. They collided with law enforcement officials or other ships on many occasions, endangering themselves and others, resulting in the death of 4 law enforcement officials. .
The Commissioner of Police, Xiao Zeyi, repeatedly criticized smugglers for being "cold-blooded" this afternoon, and admitted that smuggling activities have increased markedly because of land closures on the mainland in recent years.
Regarding maritime smuggling crimes, the police will strengthen cooperation with relevant law enforcement agencies in Hong Kong and the Mainland to fight against them.
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