In 2006, the railway police carried out crackdown on offenses and crimes endangering railway security, clear 2,956 criminal cases and 1,079 offenses jeopardizing public order. By organizing raids named “Railway Hawk” and “Blue Shield”, and rectification of such problems as robberies, snatches, thefts, ticket-hawkers, and forcibly occupying and selling seats, the railway police cleared 6,093 cases of robbing, snatching and stealing properties from passengers, eliminated 105 flee-hither-and-thither criminal gangs, and investigated 21,000 ticket-hawkers, resulting in restoration of public order in railway stations and passengers' satisfaction with railway police services. Additionally, taking advantage of their superiorities in detection, the railway police arrested 15,000 trans-province fugitives whose profiles had been stored in computer database and shared between public security agencies in China, and cleared 3,311 drug-related cases and 80 firearm-related cases, resulting in the seizure of 331.8 Kilograms of illicit drugs, 53 various firearms and 77,000 bullets respectively, in 2006.