On February 27th,
2014, Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President of the PPA had a
courtesy meeting with Major General Chris McDevitt, Senior Liaison Officer-Chief
of the Australian Federal Police Office (AFP) in Vietnam.
At the meeting,
Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President of the PPA expressed his
gratitude to the Australian Federal Police Office in Vietnam for their cooperation and
support recently. The PPA President believed that the cooperation relationship
between the PPA and the Australian Federal Police would increasingly expand and
achieve good results in the coming time. Currently, the Academy wished to quickly
implement the cooperation between the PPA’s Center
of Criminology and Crime Investigation
located in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam with the Australian-Vietnam Joint
Transnational Crime
Center.
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President of the PPA Nguyen Xuan
Yem, received and worked with
Major General Chris
McDevitt, Senior Liaison Officer Chief of the AFP’s Office in Vietnam.
Also at the
meeting, Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem formally invited Major
General Chris McDevitt to report his practical experience for the PPA’s trainees
who had been attending the leadership training courses and students of the
Economic Crime Investigation Faculty. At the same time, Lieutenant General
Nguyen Xuan Yem also hoped that the two sides would have more exchange activities
of arts, sports and more scientific research activities in the future.
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Delegates visited the
exhibition area of Vietnamese ethnic costumes at the PPA
On behalf of the
Australian Federal Police Office in Vietnam, Major General Chris
McDevitt expressed his thank to the PPA for the cooperation relationship
between the two sides in the previous years. He also presented the changes in current
international strategy of the Australian Federal Police, including the issues
relating to Vietnam.
Especially, he also looked forward to selecting experts to have lectures for the
trainees of the Asian Regional Law Enforcement Management Program (ARLEMP 33)
with the title of “Fighting corruption and fraud" at the PPA.
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Major General Chris McDevitt wrote on the
traditional Note of the PPA
Summarizing the
meeting, the two sides exchanged and came to agreement on many important issues
relating to the cooperation contents which would be implemented in the near
future.
| The Asian Regional Law Enforcement Management Program (ARLEMP) is a special training program for senior police officers of the Asian countries which was initiated by the AFP. The program makes an opportunity for trainees to improve skills of communication and organization and the specific management skills of police branch, as well as contributes to create connective environment between the trainees to support each other in working in the future, beyond boundaries of Asia region. |
Written
by Nguyen Dinh Dat
Translated
by Xuan Thanh