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Party issues new rules for disciplinary inspectors

THE Communist Party of China yesterday published pilot work rules for discipline inspection organs to strengthen self-supervision.

The rules, passed by a plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection earlier this month, clarify procedures for the handling of cases, including the collection and verification of facts, case filing, case hearing, and how to dispose of money and goods involved in a case.

Delivering a report on the rules, Wang Qishan, head of the CCDI, said the rules were to ensure “the power of discipline inspection organs is restrained by a cage of regulations.”

Inspecting and holding wrongdoers accountable — the most important power discipline authorities hold — is prone to abuse, Wang said, adding that some inspectors had been found guilty of violating Party rules and state laws.

These violations had exposed loopholes in management, including a lack of regulations and weak implementation of rules, Wang said.

Guilty officials have interacted with corrupt officials and businessmen, dealt with case clues without authorization, breached confidentiality rules, and sought profits for themselves or others by taking advantage of their positions.

To address these problems, the new rules provide detailed instructions on, among others, the collection and handling of tip-offs, gathering of evidence, and time allowed for investigations and hearings.

For example, the rules note, the investigation of a suspect usually should not last more than 90 days. Under special circumstances, it could be extended only once, for no longer than 90 days.

The rules ban verbal or physical assault of suspects, or corporal punishment during investigations, and require suspects be given food, rest and medical attention.

According to the rules, powers of daily supervision over discipline enforcement, investigations into disciplinary violations and case filing, case management, as well as case hearings, are to be exercised by different divisions of a discipline inspection agency.

“By defining the powers of different divisions, a mechanism of checks and balances will be formed, thus, preventing any single division from having too much power,” said Wang Yukai, a professor with the Chinese Academy of Governance.

By establishing a system of self-supervision, the rules will improve the management and capacity of discipline inspection organs, Wang Qishan said.

He said that making the rules public would be conducive to integrating supervision within the organs with intra-Party and social supervision.

Wang stressed that a variety of measures should be used in investigation, and decisions should be made based on discipline work procedures in a strict manner.




 

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