Ho Chi Minh City Police Launch Intensive Campaign to Suppress Crime and Ensure Public Security and Order
Saturday, Aug/30/2025 - 07:48
On the morning of August 1, the Ho Chi Minh City Police organized a ceremony to launch an intensive campaign to attack and suppress crime, ensuring public security and order in celebration of the Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day on September 2, as well as the 80th anniversary of the Traditional Day of the People’s Public Security.
Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee, and Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Police, Lieutenant General Mai Hoang, presided over the ceremony.
Attending the ceremony were: Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Van Tho; along with representatives of leaders of municipal departments, agencies, and sectors, as well as the Board of Directors and commanding officers of the municipal police units.
Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Police, Lieutenant General Mai Hoang, delivering a speech at the ceremony
The intensive campaign will run until September 15. The Ho Chi Minh City Police will implement key and focused measures, mobilize all resources and methods, and strive to achieve and surpass the set campaign targets. In particular, a comprehensive and synchronous deployment of measures will be carried out to grasp the situation early, from afar, and from the grassroots level; proactively identify complex issues concerning political security and grassroots security in order to promptly adopt effective solutions, ensuring that no passivity or surprise arises in any circumstances.
The police force will perform effectively the functions of state management over public security and order, with a focus on residence management and management of business sectors subject to conditions relating to security and order; and will strive to complete ahead of schedule the 50-day-and-night campaign of issuing electronic identification accounts for foreigners.
The intensive campaign will run until September 15
Speaking at the ceremony, Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Police, Lieutenant General Mai Hoang, emphasized that this intensive campaign constitutes an important preparatory step in terms of security and order to serve the Party Congresses at all levels and the major national holidays.
“The municipal police force demonstrates the highest determination, mobilizing all resources to attack and suppress all types of crimes, particularly organized crime, drug-related crime, usury (‘black credit’), and cybercrime, thereby contributing to the preservation of the city’s peace and stability,” the Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Police underscored.
Police units under the Ho Chi Minh City Police force launching the intensive campaign
Permanent Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Van Tho, acknowledged and commended the fighting spirit and the dedication to protecting the people demonstrated by the entire municipal police force. At the same time, he requested that all levels and sectors closely coordinate with the municipal police in implementing preventive measures and in effectively combating crimes and violations of law.
Immediately after the launching ceremony, the functional forces simultaneously organized parades and patrols on central routes of Ho Chi Minh City, creating a vibrant atmosphere and demonstrating the determination to achieve victory in the intensive campaign.
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