Vietnam police crack down on nearly 2,000 criminal gangs in 2016

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on June 1 held a ceremony to honor children of police officers who achieved outstanding international and national academic results, children of wounded and fallen police personnel, and children sponsored by the People's Public Security (PPS) force.

As a member of a high-ranking delegation accompanying General Secretary and President To Lam on his State visit to Singapore, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang had talks with Singaporean Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo on the afternoon of May 30 in Singapore.

PSNews - A high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security led by Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long paid a visit to South Africa from May 20 to 27, seeking to strengthen cooperation with law enforcement partners of the host country.

PSNews - Recently, member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long presided over the monthly meeting of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) with citizens at the Ministry’s citizen reception hall in Hanoi.

General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security held talks on May 30 with Singapore’s Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam.

Vietnam is pushing ahead with efforts to streamline its state apparatus, improve institutions and strengthen national governance capacity, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam said.

Also on May 27 in Moscow, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo Member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, held talks with the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.

General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo Member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, leading a high-level delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, attended the 6th Russia-ASEAN High-Level Consultations on Security, on the afternoon of May 27 (local time) in Moscow.

As part of his visit to Russia and participation in the first International Security Forum in Moscow, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, met with the Secretary of the National Security Council of Mongolia Byambajargal, on the afternoon of May 27.

Within the framework of his visit to the Russian Federation and attendance at the first International Security Forum organized by the Security Council of Russia, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, attended the signing ceremony of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on cooperation in technology, security, and digital infrastructure between Vietnamese and Russian enterprises, on the morning of May 26 in Moscow.

Member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang, leading a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, arrived in Moscow on May 25, beginning an official visit to the Russian Federation and attending the first International Security Forum hosted by the Russian Security Council, at the invitation of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation General Sergei Shoigu.

The Department of Information and Communications under the Ministry of Public Security held a ceremony, on the afternoon of May 26, in Hanoi, to launch the Electronic Newsroom Management System and a new interface for the online edition of the People’s Public Security (OK9 Cab) Newspaper.

Within the framework of his visit to Russia to attend the first International Security Forum, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang held separate talks with Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Aleksandr Kurenkov and Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, on the afternoon of May 26 (local time).

PSNews - Cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is set to deepen through a range of practical projects, spanning patrol vessels, fire prevention and rescue capabilities, cybersecurity and digital transformation in traffic safety training.

On May 21, the Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with Nghe An Province and relevant units, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a housing project for People's Public Security forces in Vinh Phu Ward, Nghe An Province.

Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang hosted a meeting with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman on May 19 in Hanoi.

Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang hosted a meeting with Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR) Rick Switzer on the morning of May 19 in Hanoi.

On the occasion of the 136th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 – 2026), the Ministry of Public Security held a ceremony to present a documentary film on President Ho Chi Minh’s 1955 visit to Sverdlovsk province of the former Soviet Union to the Office of the Party Central Committee, Vietnam Television and the Ho Chi Minh Museum, on May 19 in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Public Security solemnly held a ceremony to announce the Minister of Public Security’s decision to officially establish the Dong Nai City Police Department, on May 18 in Dong Nai City.

The People’s Security Academy held an opening ceremony for a refresher course for leaders of all under-ministeral departments and provincial-level police departments and other equivalent units under the Ministry of Public Security on the afternoon of May 19 in Hanoi.