What if I am threatened? Can I call the police?

If threatened, you can call the police to solve it.

Pay attention to keep the evidence, pay attention to the threats, seek the help of the police, provide the police with evidence of intimidation, and hand over the matter to the police. The public security organ may take administrative detention against the other party according to the circumstances, and if the circumstances are serious, it may be investigated for legal responsibility according to the crime of stirring up trouble. When the victim calls the police, the public security organ will file a case for punishment according to the seriousness of the case. If the circumstances are minor, the public security organs will generally give administrative detention or a fine. If the circumstances are serious, it may involve criminal charges and will be punished accordingly. If the perpetrator threatens the personal safety of others, he shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.

Depending on the specific circumstances, if you receive harassing messages with threats and intimidation, if the circumstances are serious, the parties concerned can report to the police for handling, and the public security organs will impose administrative penalties such as detention according to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment. Whoever writes threatening letters or threatens the personal safety of others by other means shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.

Threatening others, extorting public or private property, with a large amount or repeated extortion, constitutes the crime of extortion, and the public security organ shall file a case for investigation and finally submit it to the court for trial, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined. If the threatening behavior does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall detain it for not more than five days or impose a fine of not more than five hundred yuan.

legal ground

Forty-second "People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Management Punishment Law"

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.