Can I call the police if someone threatens my personal safety through text messages?

If someone threatens your personal safety through text messages, you can call the police. Intimidating others, if the circumstances are serious, constitutes a crime.

If the circumstances are minor, the case may be dealt with in accordance with Articles 42 and 42 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments (Presidential Order No. 38)" .

The following are the provisions of the Criminal Law on the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 293: Anyone who commits one of the following acts of picking quarrels and provoking troubles and disrupts social order shall be sentenced to five years in prison: The following fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention or surveillance:

(1) Beating others at will, with serious circumstances;

(2) Chasing, intercepting, insulting, or intimidating others, with serious circumstances;< /p>

(3) Forcibly taking or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property, the circumstances are serious;

(4) Making trouble in a public place, causing a public place The order is seriously disordered.

Whoever gathers others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph multiple times and seriously disrupts social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and may also be fined.