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| A gambling case in the form of cockfights with money was caught by the police. Photo: Documentation |
Along with launching a movement to denounce crimes, the police force has implemented many solutions and plans to fight gambling. This work is carried out regularly, many cases are handled promptly, ensuring the peaceful life of people, especially in rural areas.
Gambling problems not only push many families into debt and happiness, but also cause many other crimes such as theft, robbery, robbery, etc.
Data for the first 6 months of 2023 of the Steering Committee for the Prevention of Crimes and Social Evils and Building the Movement of All People to Protect National Security in the province, with the drastic intervention of the police force detected and handled 116 gambling and gambling organizations. The object of gambling and gambling organization in many forms such as: cock fighting, playing cards, shaking money and fainting, number of topics.
"Gamblers" are mainly local people, but in some cases, subjects have been discovered from other places to collude with each other to organize gambling. The place of killing is usually a place where no one passes by, the road is difficult to avoid tracking and it is easy to escape if discovered by the police.
The subjects who bought and sold topics were exchanged via phone or social networks, causing many difficulties for the functional forces in the struggle, detection and collection of documents and evidence.
The People's Court of Vung Liem district sentenced defendant Nguyen Ngoc Thanh (SN 1980) to 1 year and 6 months of suspended prison, Nguyen Thi Be Hai (SN 1975, living in Trung Hieu commune) 1 year suspended prison, the same crime of "Gambling".
The case was discovered after the police force checked the house of a resident in Trung Hieu commune and caught many people gathering to play four-color cards. In the phones confiscated at the scene, the police discovered the text messages of the Be Hai sisters. The defendant admitted that due to the precarious sale of lottery tickets, he wrote the title and handed it over to Thanh to "earn extra income".
Both defendants committed this crime surreptitiously for a long time, the illicit profits were used for personal consumption. Regarding the case, a number of other people have been administratively handled by the authorities because the gambling money is not enough to be criminally prosecuted and they themselves have no criminal record.
In addition to the gambling cases mentioned above, recently, the situation of criminals using high technology to organize gambling in cyberspace tends to increase and become increasingly sophisticated. In March 3, the police of Vung Liem district and the police of Long Ho district arrested two cases of cockfighting with money through the internet.
In both cases, there were many subjects involved, the police seized many phones used to watch online cockfighting and bet with the amount of up to tens of millions of dong. Not only causing insecurity and order, participants in online gambling are also at risk of being scammed to appropriate property by overseas entities or becoming victims of black credit crimes, arresting illegal persons. law.
Through the gambling cases brought to trial by the court, most of the defendants are teenagers, although they are healthy, they cannot find a good job, generate a legitimate income, but fall into the gambling path. pay the price of five months in prison.
In particular, some cases, although the amount of crime is not large, not enough to prosecute criminal liability, but because the "gambler" has a bad character, has been administratively fined or jailed for gambling, after recidivism should continue to be prosecuted for penal liability. In order to effectively prevent and fight gambling, the police force has implemented many specific and drastic measures.
In particular, focusing on doing well propaganda on the harms, methods of operation of criminals to raise people's awareness in the prevention work.
At the same time, actively mobilize the entire population to participate in crime prevention, detection and denunciation. In addition to the peak periods of crime prevention, the Vinh Long Provincial Police deployed a specific plan on the peak of fighting against social evils, in order to eliminate the points, dens and strictly handle the perpetrators. cards, cock fighting, number of topics, shaking talent.
At the same time, the police of units and localities review and identify gangs, masterminds, leaders, organizations, protection and cover for criminals and proactively prevent conditions that arise. crime and breaking the law.
TRUNG HUNG
