Major General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Nhat - Vice President of the PPA; Senior Colonel Pham Van Chinh - Deputy Director of Police Department of drug-related crimes investigation - MPS co-chaired the Workshop. Attending the Workshop were leaders of the MPS’s Departments; the forces of Border Guard, the Customs, the Coast Guard and the local police of the northern provinces; the units of the PPA and the students of specialty of drug-related crimes investigation.

Overview of the Workshop

Through the opening speech of the Workshop, Colonel, Assoc.Prof. Dr. Bui Minh Trung - Head of Faculty of drug-related crime investigation - PPA reported that in the recent years, the situation of drug-related crimes was extremely complex, had the tendency to increase the number of cases, objects, the amount and types of narcotics drugs and especially, the nature of crime was increasingly reckless, the activities were organized, professional and transnational, in particular in the border area of Northwest and Northeast. To fight against drug crimes effectively, the police force for drug-related crimes investigation of the MPS closely coordinated with the functional forces inside and outside the Public Security force and synchronously used the measures, tactics, particularly, the measures of legal propaganda and mass mobilization to prevent and combat the drug-related crimes played the very important role in the fight against this type of crime.

At the Workshop, all presentations focused to clarify the following issues:

- Analyze and clarify the recent theoretical issues on propaganda for drug related crimes prevention.

- Assess the current status of crime and drug related to social evils, the results in the fight against this crime as well as the propaganda for prevention of drug-related crimes in the northern provinces in recent years.

- Exchange the advantages, limitations and their causes of propaganda for the fight against drug crimes.

- Mention the experiences in implementing some propaganda models for prevention of drug related crimes.

- Forecast the situation of drug crimes and drug related to social evils in the northern provinces, point out the recommendations, proposals for innovation, improving the efficiency of the mass mobilization in preventing the drug-related crimes in the northern provinces in the near future.

Representative discussed at the Workshop

Speaking at the Workshop, Colonel Pham Van Chinh - Deputy Director of Police Department of drug-related crimes investigation - MPS affirmed that in the fight against drug crimes, the propaganda was the forefront measure, the prevention and fight against drugs should be combined together. The propaganda must be done comprehensively, regularly, perseveringly and need the drastic participation of authorities, governments, organizations. In addition, the Public Security forces need actively to make the annual propaganda plan on drug prevention; strengthen the inspection; combine propaganda with attack of the drug-related crimes. At the same time, it was necessary to strengthen the budget for the activities of drug related crimes prevention in general, for the mobilization of ethnic minorities in particular in preventing and combating drug crimes.

The participants of the Workshop took souvenir photograph

At the end of the Workshop, Major General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Nhat - Vice President of the PPA emphasized that the Workshop clarified the role of propaganda for drug crimes prevention, pointed out the valuable scientific basis and practical experiences in mobilizing people to participate in the fight against drugs and drug crimes prevention. In particular, many specific practical solutions were proposed to improve the communication skills in order to prevent the drug related crimes in the coming time, contribute to improving the efficiency of the fight against crimes, maintaining the security and order in the northern provinces in particular and the country in general.

Written by Do Hung