The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has launched a pilot program for building smart procuratorates among a number of provincial-level procuratorial organs starting in April. It selected crime types and causes with a high number of cases from various procuratorates across the country, focusing on key scenarios and challenges in case handling.
On the list of the first group for the pilot program are 10 provincial-level procuratorates from Beijing, Shanghai, the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan, and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. According to the work plan for the pilot program, the SPP's Office of the Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization is responsible for the pilot program's overall coordination. Matters related to intelligent criminal prosecution and application scenarios are being coordinated by the SPP's Office of the Leading Group for Criminal Prosecution, with support from the criminal prosecution steering groups at the provincial-level procuratorates.
Crimes such as theft, fraud, dangerous driving, intentional injury, disguising or concealing criminal proceeds, assisting information network-related criminals, drug trafficking, running gambling establishments, rape, traffic accidents, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, soliciting or introducing prostitution, illegal business operations, illegal border crossing, and gambling are among the 18 crime types and causes with a high number of cases that are the focus of the pilot program for building intelligent procuratorates.
The SPP urged the procuratorates involved in the pilot program to prioritize this initiative and make it a key task for this year. The participating procuratorates should strengthen organization for the program, establish dedicated working groups, enhance close cooperation between relevant departments and information technology (IT) departments, and promote related work in an orderly manner.
The Special Task Force for the Intelligent Development of the Investigation and Supervision Platform is the first specialized working group for the pilot program. Its primary task is to explore and study ways to enhance prosecutors' ability to detect violations through intelligent and IT means during case handling.
The pilot program is a significant step in thoroughly implementing the directives of the SPP's Party Leadership Group to accelerate the digitization of legal supervision, enhance prosecutors' capabilities in case handling and performance of procuratorial duty, improve procuratorial work with digital technologies, and strive to handle each case with high quality and efficiency.
