2019/06/06
The "Regulations on the Entire Process Recording of Administrative Law Enforcement by the Safety Production Supervision and Administration Bureau" clearly stipulates that administrative law enforcement officers shall make a complete record through text, audio-visual, and other recording methods. Audio-visual recording methods include taking photos, audio recording, video recording, and video surveillance. The main on-site data acquisition equipment for audio-visual recording is the law enforcement recorder.
The regulations also clearly stipulate that law enforcement officers using the safety supervision law enforcement recorder should comply with the following provisions:
(1) When starting the law enforcement recorder, the parties involved should be informed first. The standard wording for the notification is: To protect your legitimate rights and interests and supervise our law enforcement actions, this law enforcement process will be audio and video recorded.
(2) During the administrative law enforcement process, the language should be civilized and polite, and the behavior should be legal and standardized. In any circumstances where the law and regulations stipulate that a law enforcement certificate must be presented, the law enforcement certificate must be presented.
(3) The information recorded by the law enforcement recorder should be complete, objective, and true. The recorded information should reflect the time, place, law enforcement matters, parties involved and relevant personnel, law enforcement officers, and the law enforcement process.
(4) When carrying out law enforcement actions, the obvious signs of the location should be recorded; if there are no obvious signs, the surrounding landmark buildings should be recorded, and the name of the location should be verbally stated.
(5) After the law enforcement recorder starts recording, continuous recording should not be interrupted at the same law enforcement location, and arbitrary selection or omission or post-recording should not be allowed, and no other images should be inserted.
According to the needs of administrative law enforcement, audio-visual acquisition, storage, and recording supporting facilities and equipment are provided for each supervision and inspection room. Among them, law enforcement recorders are equipped at the standard of one for every two people. The maintenance of administrative law enforcement information acquisition and storage equipment should be strengthened to ensure normal operation. Before using the law enforcement recorder, administrative law enforcement officers should conduct a comprehensive inspection to ensure that the battery power is sufficient and the memory card has sufficient storage space. Strengthen storage security management to prevent the damage, loss, or leakage of recorded audio-visual materials.
2019/06/06
The important role of body cameras in law enforcement
To achieve lawful, just, and civilized law enforcement in traffic safety management and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of frontline traffic police officers and parties involved, the increasingly irreplaceable importance of police body cameras for traffic police officers is becoming more and more apparent. The use of police body cameras by traffic police officers ensures that they perform their duties in accordance with the law, promotes improved standardized law enforcement, and provides important safeguards for supervising law enforcement behavior. It is evident that police body cameras play an important role in traffic police law enforcement.
1. Body cameras help standardize the law enforcement behavior of law enforcement officers. In the past, traffic police officers were not strict enough in their law enforcement behavior. After wearing body cameras, their actions are recorded throughout the process and can be reviewed at any time. This standardizes the law enforcement behavior of traffic police officers and effectively prevents violations of laws and disciplines by frontline traffic police officers during law enforcement.
2. Body cameras help protect the legitimate rights and interests and safety of police officers. In many cases, due to a lack of strong evidence, it is impossible to truly restore the scene of law enforcement, resulting in infringement on the rights and interests of many frontline traffic police officers. Body cameras can record the scene during law enforcement, truthfully recording the traffic violations committed by the offenders, and fixing the evidence of violations. In case of complaints or disputes, they can serve as strong on-site evidence, truly achieving "giving the public a clear understanding and clearing the name of the police officers."
2019/06/06
Currently, China is in the process of industrialization and urbanization, with enterprises continuously expanding their production scale. Therefore, safety production is a major issue related to the life and property safety of the people, and grasping safety production operations has become a top priority for the safety supervision departments. Previously, the central government issued "Opinions on Promoting Reform and Development in the Field of Safety Production." All levels of safety supervision and law enforcement departments actively responded to these Opinions, strengthening the reform of safety supervision and law enforcement systems, improving supervision and law enforcement equipment, and requiring law enforcement personnel to wear law enforcement recorders.
Safety supervision personnel must wear safety supervision law enforcement recorders and 4G law enforcement recorders during law enforcement. During law enforcement, law enforcement personnel can start the law enforcement recorder with one click to record the law enforcement process and save the law enforcement data in the form of pictures, audio, and video. In addition, some personnel are required to wear 4G law enforcement recorders to transmit real-time audio and video images to the background monitoring center via 4G and WIFI networks. The work of law enforcement personnel can be monitored in real time through the network. In the event of an accident, the monitoring center can respond promptly, monitor the scene in real time through a large screen, and communicate and command front-line law enforcement personnel.
The Opinions point out that the target task is to basically mature the safety production supervision system and mechanism and basically improve the legal system by 2020. By 2030, the modernization of the safety production governance system and governance capacity will be achieved. Wearing law enforcement recorders is an important measure for the reform of safety supervision law enforcement. Safety supervision law enforcement recorders are law enforcement equipment that promotes the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity on the track of the rule of law. They are an important means of supervising law enforcement personnel and production enterprises and are conducive to promoting positive progress in national safety production work.
2019/06/05
City management's small black box -- law enforcement recorder
Recently, a small, phone-sized "black box" worn by urban management enforcement officers has piqued public curiosity. This "black box", officially known as a "law enforcement recorder", is a portable device with video recording, photo taking, and audio recording capabilities. Its purpose is to facilitate evidence collection during law enforcement activities and to provide oversight of officers' conduct. The device is now widely used by urban management teams.
To monitor urban management officers during enforcement actions, promote civilized law enforcement, and avoid disputes with merchants due to lack of evidence, officers are equipped with "law enforcement recorders." According to enforcement officers, these multifunctional recorders combine video, photo, audio, and intercom functions in a device smaller than a typical mobile phone. Resembling a walkie-talkie in appearance, officers can easily clip them onto their epaulets during patrols. The recorder features a 3600-megapixel camera on the front with an ultra-wide angle lens, providing clear recordings of enforcement activities. The back has an LCD screen. Officers simply press a button to automatically start recording, which can continuously record for 18 hours, capturing detailed records of daily enforcement activities.
Furthermore, the urban management law enforcement recorder is waterproof, allowing for normal operation even in inclement weather such as heavy rain. "Equipping officers with law enforcement recorders enhances their rapid response and on-site handling capabilities, enabling quick dispatch and management," said a relevant official. "It will also serve as a tool to transform law enforcement concepts, strengthen internal management, allow for random checks of recordings, supervise officers' implementation of the 'four-step approach to civilized law enforcement,' further standardize enforcement behavior, and improve the image of urban management."
2019/06/05
In recent years, a new national ecological environment law enforcement team has been established, strictly overseeing environmental protection work in key areas nationwide. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has focused on building unified uniforms, law enforcement, and traceability for various law enforcement teams, equipping them with environmental monitoring law enforcement recorders to effectively monitor nationwide law enforcement. The 2018-19 Blue Sky Protection Campaign launched strengthened supervision in key areas, utilizing enhanced 4G law enforcement recorders for real-time law enforcement and environmental protection dispatch.
The Law Enforcement Bureau coordinated 19,500 person-times of national ecological environment system personnel, deploying personnel wearing law enforcement recorders to produce 2 million law enforcement videos, and conducting over 2,000 4G real-time dispatch connections. Standardized law enforcement through law enforcement recorders enabled 22 rounds of "staggered" strengthened supervision, with environmental monitoring law enforcement recorder videos inspecting 666,000 sites. The 4G law enforcement recorder management platform strictly monitored environmental data, pushing 11,917 alarm grids nationwide, to provinces, and municipalities. 52,000 ecological and environmental problems were identified and transferred from illegal and irregular videos recorded by law enforcement recorders, all with real-time early warnings from the 4G law enforcement recorder management platform. Key issues were highlighted, tracked, and addressed until resolved. Through the standardized construction of law enforcement recorders, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has continuously increased the intensity of supervision and law enforcement, resolutely protecting green mountains and clear waters.
Through the establishment of a comprehensive law enforcement video system and the equipping of law enforcement personnel with law enforcement recorders, nationwide environmental remediation of drinking water sources was carried out. Over 2,000 law enforcement personnel went to the front lines, strictly standardizing video evidence from water source law enforcement recorders, recording 1,586 water sources.
Environmental monitoring departments nationwide have conducted in-depth investigations into garbage incineration, using law enforcement recorder videos to restore law enforcement activities. Environmental monitoring departments strictly regulated the special rectification campaign for the garbage incineration power generation industry. All 150 garbage incineration plants listed in the rectification list by environmental monitoring personnel using law enforcement recorder videos completed the rectification tasks, with an average investment of over 24 million yuan per plant. Through the special rectification, law enforcement recorder videos rapidly expanded, solving a large number of long-standing problems, and significantly improving the overall industry compliance rate.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will rely on the standardized construction of law enforcement recorders to integrate environmental protection with pollution control from land, agriculture, water conservancy, and ocean departments. The ecological environment law enforcement team will combine actual development to unify and coordinate reforms with more than 20 departments including industry and information technology, public security, supervision, finance, land and resources, housing and urban-rural construction, transportation, water conservancy, agriculture, finance, commerce, health, audit, customs, industry and commerce, quality inspection, work safety, forestry, meteorology, ocean, and energy, which have environmental protection supervision and management responsibilities. This will unify ecological protection law enforcement responsibilities and teams, implementing unified ecological environmental protection law enforcement.
Nationwide, through environmental monitoring law enforcement reform, law enforcement procedures have been improved, and law enforcement responsibilities have been strengthened. Through strict real-time law enforcement videos from law enforcement recorders and 4G law enforcement recorders, a "one-network" environmental monitoring law enforcement project has been established, ensuring strict, standardized, just, and civilized law enforcement.
2019/06/05
Body cameras assist in recording the entire law enforcement process
In order to implement the "Implementation Outline for the Construction of a Government Under the Rule of Law (2015-2020)" issued by the State Council, which clearly proposes the requirement of "full process recording of law enforcement", law enforcement departments nationwide have purchased a batch of law enforcement recorders, allowing law enforcement officers to record the entire law enforcement process through video recording.
At present, from the perspective of the current law enforcement situation, there are still phenomena such as arbitrary law enforcement, non-procedural law enforcement, and uncivilized law enforcement. Problems such as incomplete law enforcement evidence and unfixed evidence are numerous, thus leading to administrative disputes, rendering some administrative law enforcement actions invalid, triggering administrative litigation, and even causing law enforcement agencies to lose lawsuits. The reasons for this include the failure to record the law enforcement process, incomplete records, single recording methods, and non-standard recording, all of which can put maritime law enforcement agencies in a passive position in dispute resolution. The use of law enforcement recorders for law enforcement is an effective measure to address the current law enforcement situation. Law enforcement recorders integrate photography and video recording, and can meet the needs of evidence collection under various environments. By providing effective on-site video materials, they can be used for case evidence collection afterwards. At the same time, they are small in size, easy to carry, and have a long standby time. 4G law enforcement recorders can also transmit on-site video in real time via 4G or WIFI networks. Every word and action during law enforcement will be transmitted in real time to the command center via the 4G network. The command center can issue instructions to on-site law enforcement personnel through the transmitted video, realizing real-time two-way remote audio-visual command and dispatch control.
Full-process recording of law enforcement is an important system for deepening the promotion of law-based administration. By recording the entire law enforcement process, it is possible to comprehensively regulate administrative law enforcement behavior and strengthen supervision and restraint over administrative law enforcement powers. Currently, law enforcement recorders have been widely used in various industries, including tax law enforcement recorders, traffic police law enforcement recorders, maritime law enforcement recorders, urban management law enforcement recorders, and work safety supervision law enforcement recorders.
In daily supervision and law enforcement work, how law enforcement officers can fully and effectively perform their duties, avoid being held accountable, prevent the occurrence of "nonfeasance and malfeasance" is a current important research topic. Implementing full-process recording of law enforcement, standardizing administrative law enforcement procedures, and allowing law enforcement officers to use law enforcement recorders to record administrative law enforcement activities such as investigation, evidence collection, decision-making, and service through audio-visual recording methods, realizing full-process traceability and retrievable management, can promote maritime authorities to strictly, standardly, fairly, and civilly enforce laws, ensuring the full and effective performance of their duties and protecting the legitimate interests of the people.


