Talking to reporters of Hanoi Moi Newspaper about the work of preventing and combating social evils, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Tay Nam emphasized that repelling social evils has never been easy.
In order to complete the assigned targets in 2023, Hanoi city authorities will strengthen the fight against and eradicate complicated cases, points and hotspots of social evils; at the same time, replicate the model of preventing and combating social evils at the grassroots level.
- First, can you tell us more clearly about the current difficulties in preventing and combating social evils?
- Besides favorable and positive factors, Hanoi is a locality with many potential risks of social evils, most clearly drug abuse, prostitution, and human trafficking.
Regarding drugs, the difficulty in combating, preventing, and supporting drug addiction treatment is reflected in many aspects. It is easy to see that the number of drug cases and crimes is increasingly sophisticated and complicated. Drug crimes and evils are focusing on young people, causing unpredictable harm. Meanwhile, the work of supporting drug addiction treatment, especially support for drug addiction treatment at home and in the community, is very difficult to implement.
Regarding prostitution, in recent years, public prostitution spots and venues in the city have been basically eradicated. However, through inspection, the authorities have recorded small, isolated cases of suspected prostitution suspects waiting for customers on the roadside in some public places and the potential risk of disguised prostitution...
Regarding the work of preventing and combating human trafficking, there are currently complicated manifestations. The subjects of human trafficking are not only women and children but also young people and men... They use sophisticated tricks, diversifying the subjects, changing the initial approach to the victims from direct to indirect, associated with the introduction of job recruitment across the border "easy work, high salary" to control, exploit labor, and demand ransom. Only when the victim is forced to pay ransom do the family know and report, making it difficult for the authorities to detect and fight the cases.
- In reality, the authorities of Hanoi city are both concerned with preventing and combating, and focusing on repelling the evils of drugs, prostitution, and human trafficking. So, in your opinion, why are these evils still permeating community life?
- With drug addiction, effective implementation of drug addiction treatment is an important solution to reduce the demand for use and reduce the harm caused by drugs. However, many localities have not yet ensured the conditions for facilities providing voluntary drug addiction treatment support services at home and in the community. Due to subjective and objective reasons, the management and support for reintegration of drug addicts after drug addiction treatment has not yet covered all subjects under management and support...
Prostitution prevention and control activities at the grassroots level still lack close coordination between functional forces and localities in some border areas, leading to the situation where when checking and handling in one area, the subjects move to neighboring locations to operate. Furthermore, current legal regulations do not clearly stipulate the level of spending for prostitution prevention and control work, so localities do not have a basis to allocate funds to support patrol forces and maintain checkpoints at complicated locations. The handling of subjects with violations of prostitution activities is still quite light, so it is not enough to deter...
Regarding the situation of buying and selling people, there are still people who are not vigilant, easily believe in promises, leading to being tricked and sold. When rescued, there are victims who do not have information or do not cooperate with the authorities to be able to properly carry out the steps to bring them back to their families and communities...
- To gradually push back social evils and contribute to bringing a safe and peaceful life to the people, what have the authorities been doing, sir?
- The key solution implemented by the authorities is to improve the knowledge and professional skills of the staff and volunteers participating in the prevention and fight against social evils. Accordingly, from the beginning of 2023 to now, the authorities have coordinated to organize many training courses and specialized training courses on social support work in drug addiction treatment; propaganda to improve capacity in preventing and fighting prostitution; preventing and fighting human trafficking...
In parallel with the propaganda work, the parties coordinated to conduct inspections, controls, surveys, and assessments, thereby clearly identifying drug and prostitution hotspots and locations and planning to attack and eradicate them; at the same time, zoning high-risk hotspots and locations to have plans to reduce the risk. From the beginning of 2023 to the end of May, the entire city fought and destroyed 60 cases related to prostitution, arrested 239 subjects; conducted interdisciplinary inspections at more than 1,300 establishments prone to social evils. Based on the inspection results, 58 establishments with violations were punished.
Drug sweeps are regularly carried out, thereby detecting and handling many serious cases. Treatment for drug addicts and users is applied in parallel with many forms such as compulsory drug addiction treatment at drug addiction treatment facilities, voluntary drug addiction treatment at drug addiction treatment facilities, at home, in the community, using Methadone replacement treatment drugs, etc.
In general, in the first months of the year, the whole city has made records, examined, made decisions and sent more than 800 people to compulsory drug rehabilitation facilities, reaching 67.4% of the yearly plan; mobilized more than 600 people to voluntarily undergo drug rehabilitation, reaching more than 50%, received management and care; maintained treatment with Methadone replacement drugs for thousands of people.
In particular, on June 23, 2023, the Hanoi People's Committee issued Plan No. 174/KH-UBND on statistics and screening of drug addicts and illegal drug users in the area in 2023. Through the implementation of this plan, the parties will clearly assess the current situation, causes, and propose appropriate solutions. Regarding the prevention of prostitution and support for victims of trafficking, sectors and localities focus on implementing well the model of consulting, support, intervention, and harm reduction services...
- As you know, Hanoi city's viewpoint is to prevent and combat social evils from afar, early on. So how is this content realized?
- Contributing to preventing social evils from penetrating into community life, each sector, unit and locality has different, flexible and appropriate implementation methods according to population characteristics. In particular, localities in the city build models of residential areas and residential groups that are secure, safe and free of social evils, associated with the movement of the whole people uniting to build a cultural life and build new rural areas. This solution aims to mobilize the strength of the community to participate in preventing and combating social evils, proactively fighting and denouncing crimes related to drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, etc. Every year, the absence of social evils is one of the most important criteria for evaluating, reviewing and recognizing cultural titles and emulation movements.
For young people, departments, branches, functional organizations coordinate to effectively implement the models "Civilized schools, friendly students, no social evils", "Drug-free schools"; "Youth say no to law violations and social evils"...
In order to perform the function of preventing and combating social evils, in addition to the solutions that have been and are being implemented, in the last months of this year, the Hanoi Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs will continue to advise and closely follow the direction of the City People's Committee to complete and submit to the City People's Council for approval the Resolution "Regulating the level of expenditure for the regime of applying compulsory drug rehabilitation measures; supporting post-rehabilitation management of drug addicts; regulating the support regime and contribution level for voluntary drug addicts in Hanoi".
In addition, the Department of Staff will develop, submit to the City People's Committee for approval, and implement a project on regulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of public drug rehabilitation facilities... These regulations, once approved and implemented, will help authorities remove many obstacles in drug rehabilitation treatment...
In general, the work of preventing and combating social evils has never been easy. However, agencies, functional units from the city to the grassroots and each citizen always strive with the highest spirit to create more and more safe residential areas, neighborhood groups, agencies, units, and schools without social evils.
Thank you very much!
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