The Police National Video Conference called for strengthening the investigation of bribery and criminal gangs, and strictly preventing deep fake news from interfering with the election.

The Police Department today held a video conference of all police agencies across the country. A total of 768 people including police chiefs, sub-chiefs and other important police cadres attended the meeting. Director Zhang Rongxing emphasized in the meeting that ensuring the maintenance of election security is the most important task at present. Regarding bribery, underground gambling, violent intervention, deep fake news, as well as foreign power interference and transnational suppression and other illegal activities that affect the fairness of the election, the police must make absolute efforts to investigate to the end to ensure that the election achieves the three major goals of "election security, smooth voting, and post-election stability."

At the meeting of the Police Department, the chief officers of each police agency were required to personally plan and direct large-scale activities to prevent any sudden hazards. They also strengthened security protection at more than 25,000 candidate residences, campaign headquarters and other election-related places. In addition, from the printing, storage, transportation and sealing of the election (referendum) votes, the municipal and county (city) government police stations planned dedicated police forces to strictly guard the entire process to ensure the safety of the votes; on the voting day, more than 46,000 police officers were deployed to strengthen the security maintenance of 18,248 voting stations to maintain smooth and peaceful voting.

The Police Department said that in terms of purifying public security before the election, it has implemented two waves of the "Pre-election Public Security Purification Project" to vigorously crack down on gangs, firearms, gambling and illegal financial flows. As of yesterday, among the results of the investigation of bribery and violence, 149 cases of vote bribery, 717 people, 68 cases of election violence, 90 people, and 489 cases of other interference with elections, involving 574 people, have been transferred.

At the same time, Zhang Rongxing specifically requested all police agencies to accept cases of deep fake news and adhere to the principle of "quick acceptance, quick processing, and quick identification" to remove false information from the shelves as soon as possible and trace the source to avoid the continued spread of false content and affect the fairness of the election.