Guangdong pooling resources to better tackle crime

The Guangdong Public Security Department signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday with the People’s Public Security University of China to jointly develop an intelligent police force.

The deal was inked during a seminar in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

According to the agreement, both sides will introduce big data, cloud computing, internet of things technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology and other high-tech methods to prevent, analyze and fight crime.

Li Chunsheng, vice-governor of Guangdong, said the agreement will help enhance law enforcement’s understanding and use of cutting-edge scientific and technological breakthroughs, and works toward establishing an intelligent police force.

“Meanwhile, cooperation with the university will help further upgrade the modernization and efficacy of police operations and improve operational efficiency in fighting crime,” he said.

Li, who is also deputy director of the Guangdong Public Security Department, promised to introduce high-tech means to fight crime in the province, which has more than 150,000 police officers, about one-tenth of the national total.

Fan Jingyu, the university’s Party secretary, said it will organize senior professors and experts to devise new crime-fighting methods.

Hundreds of senior government officials, police officers, experts, scholars and IT business leaders from around the country attended the seminar.