The Exchange Program was co-chaired by Senior Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr Tran Minh Chat - Vice President of the PPA and Mr. Kenichi Yamamoto, Deputy Chief Representative of the Office of JICA Vietnam. Attending the Program were Mr. Iwase Satoshi, First Secretary and Mr. Daisuke Sugiyama - Counselor of the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam; experts of the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, the Office of JICA Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, the Public Security Department of Cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh; as for the PPA were officials of Department of Traffic Police and Traffic Safety Research Center.

Overview of the Exchange Program

During the discussion, the experts shared and exchanged information about the traffic safety situation in Vietnam and Japan. The participants agreed that the problems related to traffic, especially traffic accidents and the damage caused by traffic accidents were still the common concerns of Vietnam and Japan in particular and the other countries around the world in general. Furthermore, one of the key issues shared by experts of the National Police Agency of Japan was the determination of profound causes of traffic accidents to develop appropriate preventive measures. On that basis, the experts focused on discussing the experience of the two countries as well as the solutions to decreasing traffic accidents, especially solutions to traffic safety education and safety driving management.

The experts of the PPA also shared the experience in training Traffic Police Force and introduced the activities and results of the project “Strengthening traffic police training in the PPA and other police training institutions in Vietnam”. According to the evaluation, the project was very effective, its activities were done well and the relationship between the parties was ensured and strengthened solidly.

Senior Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr Tran Minh Chat - Vice President of the PPA

 and Mr. Kenichi Yamamoto, Deputy Chief Representative

 of the Office of JICA Vietnam co-chaired the discussion

At the end of the program, Senior Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr Tran Minh Chat highly appreciated the opinions of the experts and sincerely thanked the Japanese agencies for their cooperation. He also affirmed that this Exchange Program was one of the series of activities of the PPA to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam - Japan. Vice President of the PPA wished that the Office of JICA Vietnam and the National Police Agency of Japan would continue their interest and support to the construction and development of the Academy in the coming time.

In the same day, at the headquarter of the General Department of Building up Force, Lieutenant General Nguyen Xuan Muoi, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Building up Force chaired the courtesy meeting with the delegates from the National Police Agency of Japan and the Office of JICA Vietnam.

Written by Nguyen Thi Van

Translated by Cong Phuong