How to deal with threats?

You can call the police immediately, and the public security organ will punish the perpetrators according to the specific circumstances. Threatening refers to the behavior that the perpetrator threatens the future of the intimidated person or close relatives with certain dangerous behavior. Threatening to violate the law on public security administration punishment strictly constitutes a criminal offence.

Legal analysis

If you are threatened in your life, you can protect your own safety by calling the police. The public security department will file a case for serious threats and intimidation, which will play a deterrent role to criminals' threats and intimidation to a certain extent. 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

Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan for any of the following acts; If the circumstances are serious, he 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: (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.