Environmental Management Administration

The Southern Center of Environmental Management collaborates with prosecutors, police, and environmental protection agencies to investigate cross-regional and major environmental crime cases, collecting and analyzing environmental crime patterns based on the "person, event, time, place, and object" framework.

Environmental crime encompasses a wide range of offenses, such as illegal waste dumping, disposal and treatment, falsified reporting to conceal waste flows, illegal discharge of hazardous wastewater into water bodies via bypasses, and improper emission of untreated air pollutants directly into the atmosphere. These violations pollute the environment and ultimately harm human health. Consequently, environmental crime investigations not only uncover unlawful practices by unscrupulous businesses but also seek to recover illicit gains and pursue costs necessary for remedying environmental damage.

Through a collaborative platform involving prosecutors, police, environmental protection agencies, and anti-corruption agencies, data reported by businesses is analyzed alongside field surveillance to identify evidence of environmental crimes. Scientific tools are employed to analyze criminal patterns, enabling the early disruption of potential follow-up crimes. Additionally, insights from past cases are used to identify suspicious patterns, significantly reducing investigation time.

The collaborative efforts facilitated by the prosecutor-police-environmental agency interagency platform effectively analyze and identify environmental crime evidence, allowing for the early prevention of subsequent violations. The center is dedicated to holding offenders accountable for their unlawful activities and ensuring that environmental damage caused by these actions is properly remedied. In the future, the center will continue its professional and pragmatic approach to tracing the roots of environmental crime, striving to eradicate systematic and organized criminal methods in the sector.