Plan to arrange 30 people per commune

The above content was mentioned by Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long, Deputy Minister of Public Security, when giving his opinion on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code at the meeting on the afternoon of April 28 of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Provincial police investigators who become commune police chiefs/deputy chiefs will have some additional powers.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long said that according to the plan, the number of commune-level administrative units nationwide will decrease by 60-70%, so the number of commune-level police units will also decrease accordingly, but the scale will increase by an average of 3 times compared to present.

"In order for the commune-level police to be able to resolve cases at the grassroots level with the goal of being close to the people, serving the people better and connecting crime prevention and control work, the Ministry of Public Security proposes to amend and supplement the regulations on the responsibilities and powers of investigators in the Criminal Procedure Code," said the Deputy Minister.

Accordingly, for less serious and serious incidents and cases occurring in the commune, intermediate or senior investigators of the provincial police investigation agency are assigned as chief or deputy chief of commune police in charge of crime prevention work, and may be assigned certain powers.

Specifically: directly organizing and directing the handling of crime reports; initiating investigations; deciding on the assignment and change of investigators and investigation officers assigned to the commune police; inspecting the activities of handling criminal information sources in criminal cases; deciding on preventive measures; deciding on wanted persons and suspending wanted persons; searching, seizing, temporarily detaining, and handling physical evidence...

"To do this, at the current commune level, we arrange about 30 - 60 commune police officers. In Hanoi , there could be 50 - 60 commune police officers," said Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long.

The Deputy Minister of Public Security said that after the merger, the communal police will be a police level with preventive activities. To complete the work, some provincial police investigators must be assigned to be the current chief and deputy chief of the communal police.

"If approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Ministry of Public Security will coordinate with the drafting agency to research and supplement it to suit the current crime prevention situation," Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long added.

Regarding the above proposal, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy Nguyen Huy Tien said that he had just received this policy from the Ministry of Public Security today and that this was a very new policy, not yet available during the coordination process.

Assessing this as a major issue that needs to be carefully considered, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy said that the drafting committee will accept the opinions of the National Assembly Standing Committee for discussion and research.

Concluding this content, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh proposed to study the addition of authority to some investigators sent from the provincial police to work at the commune police.

The Vice Chairman of the National Assembly suggested that the Supreme People's Procuracy and the Ministry of Public Security discuss how to resolve the most favorable issues, both respecting human rights and citizens' rights, while also ensuring that the overload for higher-level investigation agencies is reduced, and promptly handling violations of the law right at the grassroots level.

PV (synthesis)

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