Thanh Chuong district lacks 27 commune police officers

Deputy Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee Thai Thi An Chung chaired the meeting. Photo: Minh Chi

Working with the People's Committee of Thanh Chuong district, the working delegation of the Legal Committee of the Provincial People's Council acknowledged the seriousness and timeliness of the district and its agencies in implementing and bringing the Resolutions issued by the Provincial People's Council into life.

Thereby contributing to supplementing equipment for the police, militia, self-defense, and civil defense forces as well as ensuring their regimes and policies, contributing to creating conditions to improve the quality of performing the tasks of the forces, maintaining order and security in the entire district.

However, in addition, practice is also posing some limitations. That is, the decentralization of spending tasks under the district and commune budgets according to Resolution No. 54/2016/NQ-HDND for militia forces in some establishments has not been ensured. Specifically, the district budget alone only ensures 10.8/19.6 billion VND of the 2017 estimate and 11.8/22.9 billion VND of the 2018 estimate.

Vice Chairman of the District People's Committee Nguyen Huu Hien said that each year Thanh Chuong's budget revenue in the area is only about 100 billion VND, which is a difficulty in ensuring resources for the militia force according to regulations. Photo: Minh Chi

In addition, currently, the arrangement of commune police is not in accordance with the prescribed staffing level, the whole district is lacking 27 commune police officers. Of which, there are 5 commune police chiefs; 9 deputy commune police chiefs; 7 permanent police officers; 6 police officers.

Not only lacking in quantity, some commune police have limited ability to handle situations, lack of flexibility, are rigid and focus on punishment, lack explanation and propaganda...

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Head of the Legal Committee of the Provincial People's Council Thai Thi An Chung acknowledged the seriousness and responsibility of the Party Committees and authorities at all levels in Thanh Chuong in implementing and bringing the Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council into life.

Mr. Phan Tuan Anh - Head of PV28 Department (Provincial Police) answered questions related to policies, regimes and equipment for the commune police force. Photo: Minh Chi

Sharing the difficulties with the locality, the Deputy Head of the Legal Committee of the Provincial People's Council also raised the issue that currently, the district is lacking some commune police positions in some localities and in the past, these localities have still ensured security and order in the area. So, the issue is whether it is necessary to study to arrange and streamline the commune police force or not.

Ms. Thai Thi An Chung also requested the district and communes to pay attention to allocating budget as well as working conditions for the military force and commune police; requested the district to pay attention to consolidating and building the commune police force, militia and self-defense force, civil defense force and increasing training to improve the quality of activities of these forces; pay attention to managing and preserving the provided equipment to ensure safety and quality...