Currently, the population scale of our country are greater and trends to increase. According to statistics, there are 22,677,500 households in the whole country with 90,710,000 inhabitants being distributed unequally between economic- geographic regions and administrative units. Before the fact that the residence registration and management is always identified as an important part of State management on security and order to ensure that citizens execute their rights and obligations under the law, serving for social management of the State and prevention, detection of crime and law violation.

Besides, the situation of crime on social evils in our country also contains complex problems, requiring police forces at all levels to strengthen social prevention, promote to reform administrative procedures, enhancing the efficiency of residence registration and management, contributing to preventing, detecting and combating crime and other violations.

Overview of the Conference

Recognizing urgency in all aspects of theory and practice of residence registration and management in the new situation, the conference aimed to analyze and clarify role of residence registration and management, contributing to crime prevention; evaluating the achieved results, current difficulties and problems of residence registration and management; making scientific forecasts on trends of the residence situation and the work of residence registration and management in the coming time, thereby, proposing solutions and recommendations to improve the efficiency of residence registration and administration to ensure implementation of residence freedom right of citizens, contributing actively to prevent and combat crime and violations of law.

At the seminar, the participants affirmed that the State management on residence has recently achieved some positive results. Construction of legal documents on residence management has relatively been perfect. Activities of residence management have provided data and documents on population, contributing to making policies for socio-economy development, strengthening national defense and security. Results of state management on residence has supported positively for detecting and providing information and documents for professional forces in arresting wanted subjects, evading sentence enforcement, criminal case investigation and object management, etc.

However, besides these achieved results, the work of residence registration and management recently has revealed some limitations and shortcomings, such as: some provisions of the Residence Law is no longer in line with the reality, management of human, household’s movement, subject management is limited; exchange of human, household information between all levels and units are not regularly and timely; officers working in residence registration and management are limited in professional qualifications; conditions of material facilities to carry out the residence registration and management at the local level are poor and backward; application of information technology is limited, etc.

The delegates discussed at the hall

On the basis of assessing the practical situation, clarifying current inadequacy in the residence registration and management, the participants provided a system of solutions and proposals to enhance the efficiency of residents registration and management such as:

- Continue to strictly implement the Residence Law and the implementation guidance documents and research to perfect the system of legal documents on residence to create a legal framework for the residence registration and management, serving for requirements in crime prevention.

- Strengthen and build staffs of residence management who has legal knowledge, professional qualification, cultural posture, style, communication, upholds the sense of service, without causing inconvenience to the people.

- Build, improve regulations on coordination between the People Public Security forces and the functional authority in the residence registration and management.

- Renew content and form of propagandizing the laws on residence for people to understand, obey and support the People Public Security forces in the crime prevention.

- Equip conditions of material facilities, strengthen application of information technology in the residence registration and management in order to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of the collecting, updating and exploiting and using information on residence, population, serving for reforming administrative procedures, facilitating agencies, organizations and individuals in the residence registration and management.

- Promote international cooperation in the residence management, research and apply advanced experience, skills on residence management of police force of the developed countries.

These scientific - practical opinions of experts has confirmed the success of the Conference. This is the basis for authorities to research, improve the system of reasoning to apply into practice, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the residence registration and management, meeting the requirements of the fight against crime in the new situation.

Translated by XT