A friend owed a loan shark and was locked up. Is it useful to call the police?

Useful, usury is not protected by law, and public security organs have the obligation to protect citizens' personal safety.

According to the People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China, the provisions are as follows:

Article 6 The people's police of public security organs shall perform the following duties according to the division of responsibilities:

(a) to prevent, stop and investigate illegal and criminal activities;

(2) Maintaining public order and stopping acts endangering public order;

(3) Maintaining traffic safety and traffic order and handling traffic accidents;

(four) to organize the implementation of fire control work, the implementation of fire supervision;

(five) the management of firearms, ammunition, controlled knives and inflammable, explosive, toxic, radioactive and other dangerous goods;

(six) the management of special industries as stipulated by laws and regulations;

(seven) to guard the specific personnel specified by the state and guard the important places and facilities;

(8) Managing assemblies, processions and demonstrations;

(nine) the management of housework, nationality, entry and exit affairs and foreigners' residence and travel in China;

(ten) to maintain public order in the country (border);

(eleven) the execution of criminal punishment for criminals sentenced to public surveillance, criminal detention, deprivation of political rights and criminals executed outside prison, and the supervision and inspection of criminals who have been declared suspended or paroled;

(twelve) to supervise and manage the security protection of computer information systems;

(thirteen) to guide and supervise the public security work of state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions and key construction projects, and to guide the public security prevention work of mass organizations such as public security committees;

(fourteen) other duties as prescribed by laws and regulations.

Extended data

A man with a good family, after many times of debt collection, tied up the debtor and ran away from home. When illegally detaining the victim, he also called drugs "takeaway" for smoking. Recently, Xinjian County Criminal Investigation Brigade successfully cracked an illegal detention case. At the same time, by digging deep into criminal clues, drug trafficking cases were detected, 3 criminal suspects were arrested, the victim 1 person was successfully rescued, and drugs Magu 2 1 pill and ice13g were seized.

According to the police investigating the case, at 22 o'clock on June 17, Deng, who lives in Xiajia Immigrant Village, Sanzhou, Xinjian County, came to the squadron of Criminal Investigation Brigade of Xinjian County Public Security Bureau to report that her husband Xia was forcibly taken away by many men at home because he owed debts to others, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

After investigation, the police learned that Xia did not have a proper job, but he liked gambling. Introduced by a friend, he borrowed 20,000 yuan from Tu, and the two sides agreed to pay 3,000 yuan a month. After Xia borrowed money, he quickly squandered it in the casino. After paying interest of 3,000 yuan in May, Xia was unable to repay the debt. On the afternoon of the incident 17, Tu took four men to Xia's home and threatened Xia to pay back the money. In the case that Xia did not pay the money, Tu took Xia away.

After the case occurred, Xinjian County Criminal Investigation Brigade quickly mobilized elite police to carry out case detection. According to Deng, when her husband was kidnapped, the suspect was driving a BMW. The police handling the case immediately transferred street video surveillance to try to find the suspected vehicle. Just as the police were collecting information to carry out their work, around June 9 15, Deng received a phone call from the suspect, saying that Xia would go home as long as his family was willing to pay back the money.

After the police learned the situation, Deng agreed to the suspect's request. The suspect informed Deng of the location of withdrawing money at the joint of Room 603 of a building on Jinggangshan Avenue in Nanchang. The police found Xia in Room 603 of the building, so the victim Deng knocked on the door. After the suspect opened the door, the ambush police quickly rushed into the room to control the suspects Tu and Wan, and Xia was successfully rescued.

Beijing Prison Administration-People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China

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