On August 19, a man from Liaoning surnamed Li posted a thread in a Kunming forum claiming that his life had been turned upside down after police falsely accused him of drug dealing based on the fact that he somehow shared an ID number with a criminal.

In 1990 he moved from Liaoning to Hanconghe Village in Heilongjiang Province and after marrying in 1993 decided to register his hukou in the village. However, in 2000 he and his wife decided to move back to his hometown in Lioaning and from 2003 his troubles began. Police in Heilongjiang would constantly go to his former address looking for him, asking neighbors about his whereabouts and even tracked down relatives in neighboring counties. People would call him asking if he was in some sort of legal trouble.

Every time Mr. Li would go on trips, police at bus stations would always check him. The situation escalated further when on July 4 this year he was asked to show his ID at the train station in Shenyang on his way to visit his sick mother. Police then took him to a room, stripped his clothes off, performed a full body search and then let him go. Fuming, Mr. Li demanded an explanation. According to a police offer, a drug team belonging to a public security branch in Kunming caught a drug dealer whose name and  ID number was the same as Mr. Li’s.

On August 20, police in Kunming confirmed that Mr. Li’s ID name and number was exactly the same as a drug dealer who had already been sentenced and imprisoned. According to the police, this wasn’t caused by police inputting an incorrect ID number into the computer system but probably caused by the fact that the same number was issued twice. Convinced?

Police are currently still looking into the case, but why do we get the feeling that they won’t admit screwing up?

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