From Sept 15 to 19, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Ministry of Public Security held a joint training session on the handling of criminal cases in the ecological environment field in Zhenjiang, East China's Jiangsu province. The program was part of efforts to actively implement the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets."
A total of 192 key professionals from procuratorial organs, public security organs, and ecological and environmental departments from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps participated in the training session.
The training focused on the prominent and difficult issues in current environmental law enforcement and judicial practices. Experts and experienced professionals from the three departments were invited to deliver thematic lectures on a wide range of topics, including analysis and responses to practical issues in environmental pollution crimes, legal risks and typical cases in ecological environment monitoring, priorities in handling cases of falsified environmental impact assessments, difficulties in identifying environmental pollution crimes and coping strategies, challenges in evidence collection and judicial practice analysis for transferring environmental crime cases, and strengthening inter-departmental data sharing and transference between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice.
The training featured group discussions during the lectures. The three departments jointly organized symposiums, where experts answered questions on the spot, fostering consensus in case handling.
The head of the SPP's Procuratorial Department for General Crimes urged divisions of general crimes across procuratorates nationwide to continue upholding the principle of handling every case with high quality and efficiency, strengthen case supervision, and further facilitate the transference mechanism between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice.
Efforts should be made to deepen inter-departmental cooperation, unify standards for evidence identification and application of the law, and crack down on environmental pollution crimes in accordance with the law, so as to provide robust judicial support for winning the battle against pollution, the official said.
