Attending were Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu, member of the Central Party Committee, Vice Minister of Public Security; Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem, President of the PPA, Leadership Representatives of the General Departments, Police Training Institutes within the Ministry of Public Security; the Representatives of Leaders of Public Security Department of Hanoi Capital, Phu Tho, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Ngai, Da Nang; the scientists and the experienced lecturers; leaders of the functional departments within the PPA and students of the postgraduate training program in 2013 were also attended the event.

Art performance at the Ceremony

The PPA is one of the significant Academy where has the highest number of qualified teachers in the system of public security institutes with 20 Professors, Associate Professors, 80 PhD, many experienced lecturers who joint in teaching the postgraduate training program. During 22 years, the PPA has trained about 1500 Masters and over 200 PhD which contribute to supplement the high-quality human resources for the research institutes, universities and the advisory and the professional police forces of the public security force as well as for the Ministry of Defense, the People's Procuracy, the People's Court and the police forces of Laos and Cambodia.

In the school year of 2013 - 2014, the PPA held the postgraduate entry examination and has 279 students who were chosen to the master degree training program and 72 PhD researching students who were chosen to the PhD degree program.

Major General, Assoce.Prof.Dr. Pham Ngoc Ha, Vice President of the PPA 

delivered the opening speech at the Ceremony

Speaking at the ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Dang Van Hieu, Deputy Minister of Public Security congratulated the new postgraduate students and required the students to uphold the spirit of responsibility for learning and practicing, actively choose the thesis and research independently and creatively, enhance application of learned knowledge in the real situation of crime prevention.

As for the PPA, the Deputy Minister also highly appreciated the PPA’s contribution in term of post-graduation training over the previous years. He confirmed that all officers who were graduated at the postgraduate level from the PPA can meet demand for political tasks in each period and have many important contributions to the work of scientific research and the Cause of Nation Defence.

Deputy Minister Dang Van Hieu visits traditional museum of the PPA

For the requirements and tasks in the new situation, Deputy Minister Dang Van Hieu requested the PPA should focus on gathering all resources to improve the quality of teachers, create the best conditions to attract scientist inside and outside the public security force to participate in training at postgraduate level, continue to innovate the training methods, update new knowledge, strengthen practice skills, develop ability of self-studying, self-research and creativeness for students. Besides, it is necessary for the PPA to enhance international cooperation, actively exchanging experience with the training institutes inside and outside the public security force to improve the quality of post-graduate education at the Academy in the future, building the Academy become the high-quality police training Center of the Country and the region.

Translated by Gia Linh