Police officers from Vietnam and Laos gathered at a conference in HoChi Minh City on April 22 to discuss measures to boost cooperation infighting crimes and ensuring social safety and order.
Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieut. Gen. Pham Quy Ngo, Chief ofthe General Department for Anti-Crime Police Major Gen. Phan Van Vinhof Vietnam and Chief of the Police General Department under the PublicSecurity Ministry of Laos, Colonel Sisavath Keomalavong, attended theevent.
Participants reviewed the recent cooperation in fightingcrime and ensuring social safety and order in areas along the twocountries’ common border and discussed measures to boost cooperativeties in 2011.
This year, the police forces of Vietnam and Laoswill focus on implementing agreements signed between the two governmentsand ministries on related work and boost cooperation to promptly dealwith complex cases of fighting crime and ensuring social safety andorder.
They also agreed to enhance the exchange of experienceand information in the field, as well as continue to organise trainingcourses.
Speaking at the conference, Ngo said that inimplementing commitments between the two police forces at the previousconference in Vientiane in March 2010, Vietnamese and Lao policeobtained remarkable achievements.
Over the past year, the policeforces, especially police in localities along the common borderline,exchanged information and coordinated to settle many drug, economic andhuman trafficking crimes. They also worked together closely to preventillegal migration and receive repatriated people.
Ngoaffirmed that this effective cooperation contributed to ensuring socialsafety and order and building the common border area into a border ofpeace and friendship as well as enhancing comprehensive cooperative tiesbetween the two ministries and countries.
He expressed hishope that the cooperation between the two police forces would befurther developed and those relations would be built into a model forcooperation in ASEANPOL.
Colonel Sisavath Keomalavong expressedhis belief that agreements reached at the conference would be afoundation for the two sides to help each other in fighting crime andensuring social safety and order./.
Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieut. Gen. Pham Quy Ngo, Chief ofthe General Department for Anti-Crime Police Major Gen. Phan Van Vinhof Vietnam and Chief of the Police General Department under the PublicSecurity Ministry of Laos, Colonel Sisavath Keomalavong, attended theevent.
Participants reviewed the recent cooperation in fightingcrime and ensuring social safety and order in areas along the twocountries’ common border and discussed measures to boost cooperativeties in 2011.
This year, the police forces of Vietnam and Laoswill focus on implementing agreements signed between the two governmentsand ministries on related work and boost cooperation to promptly dealwith complex cases of fighting crime and ensuring social safety andorder.
They also agreed to enhance the exchange of experienceand information in the field, as well as continue to organise trainingcourses.
Speaking at the conference, Ngo said that inimplementing commitments between the two police forces at the previousconference in Vientiane in March 2010, Vietnamese and Lao policeobtained remarkable achievements.
Over the past year, the policeforces, especially police in localities along the common borderline,exchanged information and coordinated to settle many drug, economic andhuman trafficking crimes. They also worked together closely to preventillegal migration and receive repatriated people.
Ngoaffirmed that this effective cooperation contributed to ensuring socialsafety and order and building the common border area into a border ofpeace and friendship as well as enhancing comprehensive cooperative tiesbetween the two ministries and countries.
He expressed hishope that the cooperation between the two police forces would befurther developed and those relations would be built into a model forcooperation in ASEANPOL.
Colonel Sisavath Keomalavong expressedhis belief that agreements reached at the conference would be afoundation for the two sides to help each other in fighting crime andensuring social safety and order./.
