Informers to Get Updates of CasesChina's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) is to improve the nation's public informing system by introducing a practice that briefs tipsters on the latest developments of cases that have been based on their clues.According to Tong Baoyu, division chief of SPP's Public Reporting Centre, the SPP has already worked out a draft regulation to establish what details will be given to informers, such as the time limit within which the prosecutor should provide feedback to the informer. The regulation still needs to be approved by a SPP special committee before implementation, and as such, Tong declined to give more details about it. Despite the fact that the public have been consistently encouraged to inform against the abuse of power, quite a number of tipsters are not told how their investigation is proceeding. "If they do not get feedback, informers doubt our work and feel discouraged, even though their complaints have been seriously handled," said Xiao Shengxi, deputy procurator-general of the Second Branch of the Beijing People's Procuratorate. Since last year, informers, with their ID cards, have been able to go to the public reporting centre of Xiao's procuratorate 15 days after they filed their report to inquire about how their tip-offs have been handled or how the investigation is going. The Beijing procuratorate has also made it a rule that the centre should tell those who come to report about the results of the investigation within one month. "The purpose of doing that is to protect the tipsters' right to know the truth, and thus to encourage them," said Xiao. |
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