Announcement of the Politburo's decision to appoint personnel for the Central Public Security Party Committee

Attending the ceremony were: General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and Standing member of the Secretariat Vo Van Thuong.

General To Lam, Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee, Minister of Public Security chaired the ceremony.

Also attending were representatives of the Central Party Office, the Office of the President, the Government Office, the Central Inspection Commission, the Central Organization Commission, the Central Economic Commission, the Central Internal Affairs Commission, the Central Mass Mobilization Commission, the Central Propaganda Commission, the Central Military Commission; comrades in the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2015-2020 term and comrades participating in the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term.

At the ceremony, Standing member of the Secretariat Vo Van Thuong announced Decision No. 107-QDNS/TW, dated June 1, 2021 of the Politburo on the appointmentCentral Public Security Party Committee, term 2020-2025 includes 27 comrades; The Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee consists of 10 comrades, including 3 comrades who are leaders of the Party and State: General Secretary, President, Prime Minister and 7 comrades who are leaders of the Ministry of Public Security.

"I am very pleased that in the last term, the Central Public Security Party Committee completed its tasks very well, the entire Public Security sector also achieved many innovations, remarkable results, leaving good impressions, and people's trust. Political security, social order and safety were maintained; especially the restructuring of the apparatus, foreign relations were very good; coordination with other countries, participation in international conferences..." - General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, welcomed and commended the Central Public Security Party Committee for inheriting and promoting the experience of previous terms and in that common achievement, there was a contribution from the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2015 - 2020 term.

Congratulating the comrades appointed by the Politburo to join the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term, the General Secretary hoped that they would try their best to achieve higher results. "First of all, we must maintain political security and social order and safety. That is our number 1 political task. To do so, the leadership of the Central Committee and the Central Public Security Party Committee must be very close, sharp, and timely. The internal forces must be highly united and unified, with a strict sense of organization and discipline. The army must be elite and skilled; leadership must be sharp and decisive; advice must be timely, grasp the situation firmly, must not be passive, surprised, and always be in a proactive offensive position" - the General Secretary emphasized, at the same time requesting to do a good job of grasping the situation, detecting promptly, having appropriate solutions and coordinating with all levels and sectors inside and outside the force in this work, especially the Army.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong requested the Central Public Security Party Committee to always adhere to the principle of the Party's absolute, direct, and comprehensive leadership in all aspects of the People's Public Security from the Central to the grassroots levels; thoroughly grasp and seriously implement the Party's guidelines and policies, focusing on the Resolution of the 13th National Congress; proactively develop programs, plans, policies, and specific actions to put the resolution into practice, improve the capacity to grasp the situation, analyze, evaluate, and forecast strategies, and promptly identify threats to national security in order to promptly advise the Party and State on guidelines, policies, and laws on ensuring security and order.

In addition, the Central Public Security Party Committee must always maintain the spirit of solidarity and set an example; must truly be a strong collective, unified in will and action, seriously implementing the Political Platform and Party Statutes, always promoting collective intelligence in leading all aspects of public security work; regularly focusing on innovating working methods, styles and manners, further promoting the role and responsibility of each individual.

Each member of the Central Public Security Party Committee must be truly exemplary in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle; be diligent, thrifty, honest, and upright; be impartial; dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, dare to innovate, be creative, dare to face difficulties and challenges, be resolute in direction and action; and must further promote a sense of responsibility, capacity, and intelligence to contribute to the common decisions of the Central Public Security Party Committee.

The General Secretary stated that it is necessary to continue to pay attention to building the revolutionary People's Public Security; strive to build by 2030 a revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern People's Public Security force, strong in politics, ideology, ethics, organization and personnel, contributing to firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, worthy of the trust of the Party, State and people. Pay attention to building people, "the army must be elite, the generals must be strong", with the combined strength to be able to defeat all negativity, overcome all difficulties, and excellently complete assigned tasks. "Remember, we are the heroic People's Public Security, with a very glorious and heroic tradition," the General Secretary stated.

In particular, maintaining moral qualities, qualifications, and practicing according to the teachings of President Ho Chi Minh in the fight against corruption, negativity, and waste; fighting both internally and among those participating in the Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption. The General Secretary requires cadres to be good at professional expertise, highly united and unified to promptly detect plots and tricks and find ways to fight against corruption, negativity, and waste.

"To maintain good security and order, first of all, we must be good, intelligent, clean, fair, civilized, upright, courageous, resourceful and especially have a good sense of organization and discipline. The police are the sword, the shield, the force that maintains security and order, so we need to be disciplined, compact and strong from the central to the grassroots levels. My comrades and I need to coordinate, be determined, have will, make efforts and strive that this term must be better than the previous term" - the General Secretary pointed out.

The General Secretary hopes that the Central Public Security Party Committee will continue to be exemplary and take the lead in leading and directing the work of Party building and rectification; building the Central Public Security Party Committee and Party organizations in the People's Public Security to be truly clean and strong, to be a model Party Committee, exemplary in politics, qualities, leadership capacity, absolutely loyal to the Party and the Fatherland, with high fighting strength, capable of excellently completing assigned tasks in all situations.

In the face of the current complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the General Secretary requested the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security to continue directing the Public Security forces from the central to grassroots levels to continue and urgently coordinate closely with ministries, departments, branches and localities in preventing, combating and repelling Covid-19; promptly encourage public security officers and soldiers, frontline forces in the epidemic areas who have not been afraid of difficulties and hardships, and have been proactive in performing the task of preventing and combating the epidemic.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong believes that with the spirit of "Solidarity, democracy, discipline, responsibility, efficiency" and high determination, the Central Public Security Party Committee, the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security and all officers and soldiers of the People's Public Security will successfully complete the tasks set out in the 2020-2025 term.

Accepting the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Minister To Lam stated that in the recent past, in the context of the extremely complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to leading and directing the entire People's Public Security force to excellently complete political tasks, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security have focused highly on directing the public security of units and localities to closely and actively coordinate with the health sector and related levels and sectors in the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic;...

During the 2020-2025 term, the Central Party Committee of the Public Security vows to unite as one, constantly train, improve capacity, qualifications, political mettle, and moral qualities following the example of the great President Ho Chi Minh, promote capacity, initiative, creativity, inherit and promote the heroic tradition of the People's Public Security force as well as the experience and achievements of the previous term, and lead the People's Public Security force to successfully carry out the noble tasks entrusted by the Party, State, and people.

Minister To Lam expressed his hope that in the coming time, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security will continue to receive the attention and direction of the Politburo, the Central Party Secretariat, and especially the regular attention and direction of key leaders of the Party and State participating in the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee. At the same time, the Central Public Security Party Committee also hopes to continue to receive effective coordination and collaboration from central departments, ministries, branches and localities in the work of protecting national security, maintaining social order and safety, and building the People's Public Security force.