On the afternoon of July 9, 2025, the Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue Police Team (PCCC and CNCH), the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department in coordination with the Executive Committee of the Youth Union of Nam Sam Son Ward ( Thanh Hoa ) organized a class to propagate drowning prevention skills and teach free swimming for 30 disadvantaged children in Nam Sam Son Ward.
From July 9 to August 7, 2025, children will learn basic knowledge and skills about swimming, such as: practicing breathing properly when in direct contact with water; common swimming techniques, how to handle drowning due to cramps, and quickly handle dangerous and unexpected situations when swimming.
Organizing free swimming classes for children not only contributes to promoting, instructing, and improving children's water safety skills, but also contributes to mobilizing the whole population to actively practice swimming, raise awareness of drowning prevention, and limit drowning accidents for children and the community.
Police force propagates drowning prevention skills to students and the public. Photo: CATH
According to statistics, in the first 5 months of 2025, there were 14 drowning incidents in Thanh Hoa province, taking the lives of 18 people, including 14 children. Thanh Hoa Provincial Police leaders said that there are many causes of drowning accidents in children, but most of them are due to hyperactivity and lack of skills to prevent drowning accidents in children.
In addition, there are many families who are subjective, negligent, and lack attention and management of their children. Many parents are busy with work or earning a living, so they leave their children to their grandparents at home to look after. This makes it very difficult to manage the children's time and activities, and only when an unfortunate incident occurs is it too late.
To ensure the safety of children and minimize the potential risk of drowning accidents, in recent times, the police forces in Thanh Hoa province have proactively and synchronously deployed solutions and measures to prevent and combat drowning accidents, especially drowning prevention for children. At the same time, advising Party committees and authorities at all levels to promote propaganda, training, and dissemination of knowledge on drowning prevention, improving skills in drowning prevention for children and students...
Accordingly, from the beginning of 2025 until now, the Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue Police force, the Provincial Police have coordinated to organize more than 50 propaganda sessions, instructing students on safe swimming skills, first aid skills for drowning people and how to wear life jackets properly... Through that, it has contributed to raising awareness among students about ensuring safety for themselves and those around them when participating in underwater activities.
Dai Loc Commune Police, Hau Loc District, put up danger warning signs in areas prone to drowning accidents. Photo: CATH
Particularly for the police of communes, wards and towns, in addition to propaganda work, they have regularly coordinated with forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level, Youth Union and Women's Union cadres at the grassroots level and families and schools to strengthen management, supervision and remind children to prevent drowning accidents.
In addition, the authorities have also broadcast propaganda and warnings about drowning accidents on the loudspeaker system at the grassroots level, on social networking platforms Zalo, Facebook, at coastal tourist areas and entertainment areas; issued recommendations and organized households to sign commitments, requiring households and all people to always strictly comply with measures to prevent and combat drowning. Instructed, trained and promoted the movement of teaching and practicing swimming for children at the village and commune levels.
The forces also increased patrols and warnings about the risk of drowning in areas with rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds; places where many children frequently pass by, adjacent to water sources, and places where children often gather to play. Mobilize and arrange forces and means to organize regular patrols, vigilance, and quick rescue at high-risk areas for drowning accidents.
Sam Son deploys a model of guiding and supporting safe swimming at 14 Hubways along the beach. Photo: CATH
Organize to review and create maps of danger warnings in areas and locations at risk of drowning accidents (beaches, swimming pools, rivers, lakes, ponds, wells, deep holes with water, deep and dangerous water areas, water storage structures, etc.) to advise local Party committees, authorities and relevant agencies and units to direct the overcoming of shortcomings and limitations that are the causes of drowning.
Thanh Hoa Provincial Police leaders said that it is necessary to synchronously and drastically implement solutions to prevent drowning accidents. However, to minimize the occurrence of drowning accidents, it is necessary to have the joint efforts of all levels, sectors, especially mass organizations and families in managing, supervising and creating healthy and useful playgrounds for children to protect them from the risk of drowning accidents.
Source: https://phunuvietnam.vn/cong-an-thanh-hoa-day-boi-mien-phi-cho-thieu-nhi-co-hoan-canh-kho-khan-20250710111034468.htm
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