By Lu Xuejiao
Next to the hall of Liangcheng Xincun Police Station, there is a little people's mediation studio called Hongxin Mediation Studio. The eight-square-meter mediation room with home decoration style gives people a sense of peace and warmth. The judicial mediators and full-time lawyers work here every working day, and policemen provide full-time mediation. Through the grass-rooted "Three-institution Linkage" mechanism, all kinds of contradictions and disputes among residents are resolved on the spot and the actual difficulties of residents are to be cleared with the purpose of fully solving the contradictions as early as possible.
"If the residents have difficulties, they will have a place to discuss and solve." On the afternoon of March 3, Guo Fang, Party Chief of Hongkou District Party Committee, came to the Liangcheng Xincun Police Station, had a talk with the staff and inspected the construction and operation of the "Three Agencies’ Cooperation" mechanism and the social results achieved.
The small heartwarming mediation room solves contradictions and disputes. It is reported that Hongkou actively integrates the strength of law firms on the basis of police station and sub-district judicial office, establishes the "Hongxin - Three Agencies’ Cooperation" investigation and resolution mechanism of contradictions and disputes, makes the idea of "seeking law services in case of trouble" become a consensus of the residents, and strives to enhance the front-end ability of detecting and resolving contradictions and disputes. Since the implementation of the mechanism in the whole district in 2021, it has become the front line of community dispute mediation, a new place for rule of law publicity and a new path for eliminating hidden dangers. So far, the Hongxin Mediation Studios of all police stations in the district have received 479 residents' legal consultation and mediation, mediated 148 civil disputes, solved 12 complex contradictions and disputes behind repeated police calls, and provided solutions to people's contradictions and disputes.
"The innovation of grass-roots governance should be effective, not only in its form, but also in its essences". At the on-site meeting of "Three Agencies’ Cooperation" promoting the resolution of contradictions and disputes and the regular meeting of sub-district Party chiefs, Guo Fang put forward requirements for the innovation of grass-roots governance. While grasping the integrity and periodicity of grass-roots governance, we should also pay attention to the effect orientation, focus on cohesion and make concerted efforts to build the working mechanism of "Three Agencies’ Cooperation" into a replicable and popularized template, a good mechanism for the convenience of the people and a good practice for the people.
At the meeting, Guo Fang also stressed the necessity of ensuring safety, and asked the officials of the sub-district to take the initiative to focus on key work. "We should pay attention to the concrete work and make the work results more recognized by the masses," Guo Fang said.
This year, while continuing to adhere to and develop the experience of Fengqiao in the new era, Hongkou Branch of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau will take Liangcheng Xincun Police Station as a pilot, actively explore the upgraded version of 2.0, upgrade the " Three Agencies’ Cooperation" to the "Three + N-Agencies’ Cooperation", introduce more relevant departments to jointly extend, strengthen and publicize the investigation and resolution mechanism of contradiction and dispute to the outside, to the inside, to the whole region, and we will extend the tentacles of the mechanism at the same time by upgrading the 9 Hongxin Mediation Studios in the jurisdiction to 9 + 202 ones to give full play to the role of 202 neighborhood committees and people's mediation committees in Hongkou. We will create 202 Community Hongxin Mediation Studios, so that the residents can feel the legal warmth without leaving their communities