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Knowing full well that Ruan did not meet the requirements for entering Beijing, Du assisted him in hiding in the cargo compartment of a truck at the Xiaotun checkpoint in Tongzhou District in an attempt to evade inspection and enter the city; both were placed under administrative detention by Beijing police in accordance with the law.

On September 15, netizens revealed that tenants in Beijing must report new residents, and the police station is jointly conducting night checks of the floating population. Beijing police require landlords to implement “register upon arrival, deregister upon departure,” and punish landlords who fail to update information in time, while encouraging the public to report.

Beijing police have launched night inspections targeting rental housing and the floating population, requiring tenants and all visiting friends and relatives to self-report through a platform, which netizens have sarcastically dubbed the "Beijing Visa."

After Beijing announced new drone management regulations on September 13, 2026, some netizens who had previously filed registrations and real-name registered their drones as required were pressured by police to hand them over. The police station did not contact the owners directly, but instead asked their parents to have the drones shipped out of Beijing or handed over to a recycling station, with buyback prices on second-hand platforms falling to 30% of the original price.

On June 1, 2026, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally notified the June Fourth victims' family group, the Tiananmen Mothers, that they are strictly forbidden from visiting Wan'an Cemetery on June 4 to mourn their killed relatives, changing a convention of many years and marking the first time in over 30 years that the victims' families have been completely banned from holding a public memorial.

On August 19, 2013, internet promoter Qin Zhihui (online alias Qin Huohuo) was criminally detained by Beijing police on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and illegal business operations, becoming the landmark case of that year's special campaign against online rumors.

During the Beijing Olympics, the authorities set up a demonstration zone. On August 18, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said it had received 77 applications involving 149 person-times in total, and not a single one was approved.