Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries,departments, and localities to intensify national and internationalcooperation in the fight against crime, especially trans-national,hi-tech crime and crime with foreign elements involved.
The Deputy PM made the statement at the National Steering Committeefor Crime Combat and Prevention’s a teleconference in Hanoi on April15 to look back its operation in the first quarter of 2013 and work outplans for the second quarter.
Phuc, who heads theCommittee, praised the productive participation of all ministries,sectors, the Vietnam’s Fatherland Front, and people in combating andpreventing crime, but warned of a tendency of crime re-rising up in amore complex manner.
He said control and preventive activitiesneed to be reinforced as a core, regular task of local Party Committeesand authorities, and raids on criminals must be continued with theinvolvement of people and local self-defence forces in the comingmonths.
The Committee reported that in the first quarter, morethan 14,000 criminal cases were uncovered, up 4.83 percent from theprevious quarter. Of which, nearly 4,000 cases related to herointrafficking, with over 7,000 involved people arrested and 98 kilogramsof heroin and 600 kilograms of marijuana seized, and 50 cases areengaged in human trafficking, with 131 people arrested.-VNA
The Deputy PM made the statement at the National Steering Committeefor Crime Combat and Prevention’s a teleconference in Hanoi on April15 to look back its operation in the first quarter of 2013 and work outplans for the second quarter.
Phuc, who heads theCommittee, praised the productive participation of all ministries,sectors, the Vietnam’s Fatherland Front, and people in combating andpreventing crime, but warned of a tendency of crime re-rising up in amore complex manner.
He said control and preventive activitiesneed to be reinforced as a core, regular task of local Party Committeesand authorities, and raids on criminals must be continued with theinvolvement of people and local self-defence forces in the comingmonths.
The Committee reported that in the first quarter, morethan 14,000 criminal cases were uncovered, up 4.83 percent from theprevious quarter. Of which, nearly 4,000 cases related to herointrafficking, with over 7,000 involved people arrested and 98 kilogramsof heroin and 600 kilograms of marijuana seized, and 50 cases areengaged in human trafficking, with 131 people arrested.-VNA
