Nghe An calls on people to hand over and fight crimes related to weapons, explosives, and supporting tools.

The plan clearly states: Currently, the Ministry of Public Security still identifies Nghe An as one of 18 key areas for weapons, explosives, and support tools.

To continue to effectively implement the propaganda work, mobilize the entire population to hand over and fight against crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives, and supporting tools in Nghe An province in 2023, the Provincial People's Committee requests provincial departments, branches, sectors, mass organizations, People's Committees of districts, cities, and towns:

The weapons, explosives, and supporting tools seized by Thanh Chuong Police include homemade guns, homemade knives, swords, pipes, etc. Photo: Thanh Trung

- Strengthen state management of weapons, explosives and supporting tools; strictly implement the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Supporting Tools and documents guiding their implementation; raise awareness and responsibility of agencies, organizations and the entire population in complying with legal provisions on management and use of weapons, explosives and supporting tools.

- Thoroughly recover weapons, explosives, and supporting tools still floating in society, do not let criminals use them to commit crimes, and minimize damage to people and property caused by weapons, explosives, and supporting tools, especially accidents caused by bombs, mines, and explosives left over from the war.

Anh Son District Police mobilized people to voluntarily hand over 250 guns of various types. Photo: Thai Hien

- Further enhance the proactiveness, creativity and close, regular coordination between all levels, sectors, mass organizations, political and social organizations; ensure the organization and implementation of propaganda and mobilization work for people to hand over and fight against crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives and supporting tools seriously and effectively.

- Review and make a list of suspected subjects who are still illegally storing weapons, explosives, and supporting tools; individuals who still keep weapons and supporting tools as souvenirs; hunting guns previously equipped for individuals to use; ethnic minorities who still manufacture, keep, and use homemade weapons such as flintlock guns, air guns, etc. within each commune, ward, village, and hamlet to have appropriate propaganda and mobilization measures to hand them over; closely combine concentrated propaganda and individual propaganda. For subjects who deliberately do not hand them over, there will be measures to fight and strictly handle them according to the provisions of the law.

- Launch a mass movement to protect national security in detecting and denouncing violations of weapons, explosives and supporting tools; maintain and replicate effective crime prevention and control models and clubs, early detect and promptly resolve conflicts among the people; organize and mobilize people to commit not to illegally produce, trade, transport, store or use weapons, explosives and supporting tools; promptly commend, reward and replicate good models, good people, good deeds, groups and individuals with outstanding achievements in carrying out this work.

Many homemade weapons and weapons were handed over to the police by the people. Photo: Van Hau

- Organize points for receiving weapons, explosives, and support tools for people to hand over at the headquarters of the People's Committee at the commune level, Border Guard stations (if any) or the Commune, Ward, and Town Police. After receiving, it is necessary to properly classify, preserve, liquidate, and destroy weapons, explosives, and support tools according to the provisions of law. As for primitive weapons that are heirlooms and family heirlooms according to customs and practices, people must be instructed to declare them in accordance with the provisions of law.

The Provincial People's Committee also requested the relevant agencies to strengthen the state management of cyber security and the postal sector, effectively serving the work of preventing and combating crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives, and supporting tools in cyberspace and through postal services; coordinate with service providers to request the blocking and removal of social network accounts, YouTube channels, and videos advertising the purchase, sale, instruction, and manufacture of weapons, explosives, and supporting tools in cyberspace. Perform well the management of the industrial and commercial sectors, manage the area, proactively coordinate with relevant functional forces, monitor and inspect businesses and individuals trading in dangerous chemicals, explosive precursors, and industrial explosives to promptly detect, inspect, and handle violations according to the law.

Do a good job of managing foreigners' residence, checking and controlling entry and exit, coordinating with other sectors and international cooperation to exchange information, promptly and effectively serving the work of controlling, detecting, arresting and strictly handling crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives and supporting tools, especially illegal trading and transportation of weapons, explosives and supporting tools across the border. Organize inspections of the implementation of the management and use of weapons, explosives and supporting tools at agencies, organizations and enterprises licensed to equip and use weapons, explosives and supporting tools, and business establishments in industries using industrial explosives; review and evaluate the current situation of production and business to promptly correct and overcome loopholes and shortcomings, not allowing criminals to take advantage of their activities.

- Synchronously deploy professional measures to focus on preventing and combating crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives, and supporting tools. Coordinate patrols, inspections, and control of trails to detect, prevent, and handle early and remotely the illegal trading and transportation of rudimentary weapons and supporting tools from abroad into Vietnam.

Timely detect, combat and strictly handle subjects, gangs, and networks that illegally produce, trade, transport, store, and use weapons, explosives, and support tools; thoroughly investigate the origin of weapons, explosives, and support tools and thoroughly handle them. Strictly implement the law enforcement work in handling reports, denunciations, and recommendations for prosecution; investigate and handle crimes and violations of the law on weapons, explosives, and support tools.

- Improve the quality, speed up the process of resolving, strictly and legally adjudicating cases related to weapons, explosives and supporting tools. Select and identify major, key cases that are of public interest to promptly bring them to trial, actively and effectively serving the peak periods of crime suppression. Strengthen the organization of experience-sharing sessions to improve the qualifications and skills of case resolution for the team of officials holding judicial positions. Coordinate with information and media agencies on trial results to propagate and educate legal awareness, the spirit of fighting to prevent and combat crimes, and violations of the law on weapons, explosives and supporting tools.

Authorities destroy weapons and explosives. Photo: Thanh Trung

- Organize inspection and evaluation of the management and use of equipped weapons, explosives, and supporting tools. Review, compile statistics, and arrange according to regulations warehouses of weapons, explosives, and supporting tools and warehouses, places for storing and preserving weapons, explosives, and supporting tools that are evidence of cases, incidents, or have been recovered. Timely detect, rectify, and strictly handle individuals and organizations that have violated the management and use of weapons, explosives, and supporting tools, especially the act of losing weapons, explosives, and supporting tools or using weapons, explosives, and supporting tools for the wrong purpose.

The Provincial People's Committee also requested criticism and strict handling of responsibilities for heads of units, localities, organizations and individuals involved in the incident, and subjects manufacturing, trading, transporting, storing and using weapons, explosives and supporting tools to commit very serious and especially serious crimes.