Strengthening efforts to identify fake ID crooks
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CHINA’S police have found 271,000 fake or duplicate ID records in the first half of this year, all of which have been removed, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
And officers have solved 149 cases of counterfeiting and selling fake ID cards or hukou — China’s household registration and administration system, which is linked to citizens’ ID cards and records.
A total of 46 police force members have been punished for involvement, the ministry said in a statement.
Police also renewed their crackdown on corruption that allows the trade in fake or duplicate ID records. Often dishonest officers help obtain fake IDs for individuals after taking bribes.
Lax supervision of the registration and transfer of IDs leaves scope for a wide range of transgressions, said officials.
At a national public security meeting on Friday, Vice Public Security Minister Huang Ming pledged efforts to deal with the problem of incorrect, fake or duplicate ID information to ensure the accuracy and authority of the country’s ID numbers and hukou records.
Huang ordered that cases of officials and Communist Party of China members having two or more ID or hukou registrations should be reported to local CPC disciplinary and organization authorities.
The ministry has also ordered a comprehensive investigation into the trade and crackdown on selling and purchasing fake hukou.
Police found to have been involved in creating fake IDs will be sacked from their posts and if they have received bribes, they will also be punished according to the law, the ministry said in the statement.
It will also establish a life-long accountability system for officers in charge of hukou registration and management.
Any officers involved in counterfeiting IDs or hukou documents will be held accountable, even their misconduct is not discovered until after they retire or resign.
Moreover, fake-proof technologies will be adopted to assist hukou management. By the end of this year, a system to check ID information through image matching technology will be set up across the country.
The hukou system ties access to basic local welfare and public services to a person’s place of residence. But hukou in different regions bring different benefits, thus creating demand for counterfeiting.
Also, as many Chinese cities limit property purchases by individuals and households to prevent housing bubbles, demand is also growing for duplicate IDs.
Last year, China found and nullified 790,000 fake IDs.
In a prominent case, Gong Ai’ai, a woman dubbed “Sister House” by Chinese netizens for having more than 40 properties in Beijing despite property market restrictions, was sentenced to three years in prison for forging IDs and residency records.
A former police officer in the northwestern province of Shaanxi was sentenced to one year in prison for helping Gong obtain the fake IDs.
Li Jincan, researcher with the Yunnan provincial academy of social sciences, a local think-tank, argued that only when various social benefits are decoupled from the hukou system will these management problems be solved.
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