Attending the ceremony, there were Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Minh Duc - Deputy Head of Police Science Institute, the People's Police Academy; Mr. Vijaya Ratnam Raman - Senior Legal Expert of UNICEF; Mr. Guillermo Glarza - Director of Law Enforcement Training & Technology, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) together with other representatives of the functional units inside and outside the PPA.

The Chairman Committee of the WorkshopMajor Colonel, Dr. Nguyen Minh Hien 

- Director of Center for Criminology and Crime Investigation 

made speech at the meeting

Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Xuan Minh - Deputy Director of Police Department of Anti-High-tech Crime (C50) said: spreading the depraved cultural products on websites, forums in the recent years has been rapidly growing. Criminals often established, participated in forums to share movies, depraving children pictures through the Internet and organized meetings in private homes, game shops... to get acquainted with, entice, seduce or force children to join in law breaking activities, such as: prostitution, usage and sale of narcotics, theft or force children to carry out abusive activities.

From 2010 to now, every year, Police Department of Anti-High-tech Crime (C50) and Police Department of Crime Investigation on Social Order (C45) received dozens of proposals of coordination of investigating and vivificating the cases involving child sexual abuse on the Internet from the international police.

Overview of the Workshop

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Minh Duc - Deputy Head of Police Science Institute emphasized: In the future, the development of the internet, the social network with the huge number of participants will be forecasted an ideal land for children abuse criminals to carry out abusive activities. Therefore, enhancing capacity of investigation against this type of crime of the Anti-High-tech Crime Police force was extremely essential and must be implemented at the universities. Facing this situation, the Center for Criminology and  Crime Investigation together with UNICEF organized Workshop "Adding investigation of computer facilitated crimes against children into PPA’s training program" with an aim to assess the current status of crime using high-tech to abuse children in Vietnam and around the world in the recent period of time; Situation of discovery, detection, prevention, investigations against crime as well as evaluate the teaching programs and contents of the people's police schools in general and the PPA in particular on legal issues, investigations profession of crime using high-tech to abuse children; thereby, initially propose and recommend the ability to add the investigation of computer facilitated crimes against children into PPA’s training program.

Mr Guillermo Galarza – Director of Law Enforcement Training & Technology,

 ICMEC made his presentation

At the Workshop, the participants were listening to 06 presentations by experts from the ICMEC; C50, C45; the Department of Training; General Department of Police and the PPA with contents relating to the global perspectives of crime using high-technology to abuse children; policies and laws on crimes against children through the network; trends of child exploitation; enhancing the  capacity of child-abuse prevention as well as necessity of adding content relating to investigation of computer facilitated crimes against children into PPA’s training program.

Representative of the UNICEF, Mr. Vijaya Ratnam Raman - Senior Legal Expert of the UNICEF emphasized that the development of crime using high-tech to abuse children was very complex. Meanwhile, the task of detection and fight of crime against children on the Internet was extremely difficult, which required the people's police force to improve the capacity to prevent, detect and fight effectively. Thus, UNICEF was always ready to support Vietnam in general and the People's Police Academy in particular to find solutions to protect children against this problem.

The delegates took the memorial photos

Ending the workshop, Colonel, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Minh Duc - Deputy Director of the Institute of Science Police highly appreciated the experts' comments at the workshop, besides recognized the positive feedbacks which would be implemented early in the coming time. He also hoped the specialized units would continue to work together to take more effective measures to prevent and reverse problem of crime using high-technology to abuse children which was extremely complicated and unpredictable as today.

Translated by Khanh Linh B10D41