Thesis title: “Robbery investigation in the Northern mountainous areas”

Major: Criminology and Criminal Investigation            Code: 62.38.70.01

Full name of researcher: Le Ngoc Khanh

Scientific titles, degrees and name of the instructors:

1. Assoc.Prof. Dr. Quach Ngoc Lan

2. Dr. Pham Xuan Dinh

Training Institution: The People’s Police Academy - Ministry of Public Security

New contributions of the thesis:

1. Research contents: this is the first time the robbery crime’s activities as well as robbery investigations in the Northern Mountainous area are completely and comprehensively and deeply researched in this thesis. Research results of the thesis contribute to adding some theories about robbery investigation.

2. The thesis is the first scientific work implemented seriously which investigates situation and criminal characteristics of robbery crimes in the Northern mountainous provinces from 2005 to 2014; conduct surveys and analysis of the current situations of investigating robbery cases made by social order investigation police force in some provinces of the Northern mountainous area; since then, advantages, disadvantages, remaining, limits, shortcomings, difficulties, hindrances are withdrawn to identify the reasons of such situations and to provide solutions to overcome.

3. From the aforesaid results, the thesis has recommended solutions to enhance the efficiency of the investigation activities in the Northern mountainous provinces such as: suggest to amend and supplement some legal documents; enhance investigation measures; coordination measures in investigation of robbery cases; improve the coordination relations among Police agencies, between investigation police and other forces, with Border army force and with China Police; boost up investigation quality of police force working in the Northern mountainous provinces.