Promoting sources of information and denunciation to prevent crimes in Nghi Loc

Many valuable sources

Most recently, through a criminal report, at about 12:00 on June 1, 2022, in My Dinh 2 ward, Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi city, Nghi Loc district police successfully arrested Phung Viet Hung for fraud and property appropriation.

This is a subject who sells tracking software, reads messages to defraud and appropriate the buyer's property. When the victim agrees to buy, Hung requires the money to be transferred first before providing an account. However, in reality, the website and software Hung sells cannot track other people's personal devices. After receiving the money, Hung tries every way to delay and block the buyer's phone number to appropriate the property.

Subject Phung Viet Hung with evidence seized by the police. Photo courtesy

To clarify the subject's behavior, Nghi Loc District Police have applied a combination of professional measures, verification, and investigation in many locations inside and outside the province such as Hanoi, Thanh Hoa, Bac Giang...

At the police station, Phung Viet Hung confessed that with the above methods and tricks, from 2021 to now, he has defrauded and appropriated property of hundreds of victims nationwide. Each victim was defrauded by Hung from 2 million to 10 million VND. Based on the bank account statements of the subject, the Investigation Committee determined that the transaction amount related to the subject's fraud from 2021 to now is more than 2 billion VND.

Not only at the District Police, but also at the Police of communes and towns in the area, through receiving denunciations and reports of crimes, many cases have been handled promptly. According to Captain Hoang Van Phung - Head of Nghi Trung Commune Police, in 2021, the Commune Police received and handled 4 reports, of which 3 were prosecuted and 1 was administratively handled; from the beginning of 2022 until now, 2 reports have been received and are currently being handled.

For example, at 8:30 p.m. on December 19, 2021, through a report from the people, the Commune Police promptly handled the case of a young man being beaten unconscious in Nghi Trung Commune. After receiving the report, the Commune Police coordinated to provide first aid and take the injured person, Mai Van Ch. (born in 1989, hamlet 5, Nghi Trung Commune) to the emergency room, and quickly identified the perpetrator as Ho Sy H. (born in 1980, residing in Dien Trung Commune, Dien Chau District) to handle according to the provisions of law.

From information reported by the people, many cases have been verified and handled promptly. Photo: D.C.

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Y - Chief of Quan Hanh Town Police also said that since the beginning of the year, the Town Police have received and processed reports of 5 cases and have transferred them all to the police investigation agency for prosecution.

Most recently, at 10:00 a.m. on April 7, the unit received a report from the Nghi Loc District Road Traffic Management Department about thieves stealing 10 cast iron trash nets on National Highway 1A, with a total value of 16,575,000 VND. Accordingly, after receiving the report, the Town Police conducted an investigation, and on April 9, they clarified and arrested Tran Van Cong (born in 1983, residing in Nghi Phuong Commune, Nghi Loc District), the person who committed the above theft. Accordingly, the case file was quickly completed and transferred to the District Police Investigation Agency for prosecution according to regulations.

According to the Commune and Town Police, since the new regulations of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code on the functions and tasks of the Commune Police force in receiving and handling denunciations and reports of crimes, specifically, increasing the time from 24 hours to no more than 7 days from the time of receiving to transferring denunciations and reports of crimes with related documents and objects to the competent investigation agency, the handling of sources of reports and denunciations by the Commune Police has achieved increasingly good results.

Ensure timely reception and resolution

Practices over the years have shown that Nghi Loc District Police have paid special attention to and directed the effective implementation of the work of handling crime reports and denunciations through many forms. In addition to maintaining 24/24 duty; setting up a crime denunciation mailbox; receiving information from petitions sent by post, on-duty phone, and hotline. In particular, they also receive crime reports and denunciations through social networks such as Zalo, Facebook, etc.

Nghi Trung Commune Police (Nghi Loc) received complaints from local people. Photo: D.C.

According to statistics, in 2021, Nghi Loc District Police alone received 34 reports of crimes, of which 17 cases were prosecuted. Since the beginning of the year, 27 reports have been received and 9 cases have been prosecuted. Notably, the information received is increasingly of better quality and accuracy, contributing to stabilizing the situation and promptly preventing violations of the law.

Major Hoang Danh Toan - Head of the General Investigation Team, Nghi Loc District Police said: The reports and denunciations that the unit receives are mostly serious cases with signs of crime. Therefore, immediately after receiving them, the unit classifies and assigns investigators to handle them according to regulations. After organizing the investigation and verifying the reports and denunciations, there are conclusions to decide whether to prosecute or not to prosecute the case.

Along with directing the good implementation of the work of receiving denunciations and crime reports, the settlement process always ensures objectivity, speed, and timeliness in accordance with the provisions of law; not allowing the situation of reports and denunciations to be backlogged, violating the settlement process, letting criminals escape, causing resentment among the masses, contributing significantly to the work of preventing and fighting crimes and maintaining social order and safety in the area. In reality, many people are still afraid and do not dare to denounce crimes for fear of being implicated.

According to Major Hoang Danh Toan: "People do not need to worry about being implicated for providing information to the police, because the identity of the whistleblower and information about crimes is always kept confidential and protected by law."

Many forms of receiving information about the security and order situation in the area have been deployed by the police of communes and towns in Nghi Loc district. Photo: D.C.

Regarding the plan in the coming time, to improve the effectiveness of receiving and handling crime reports and denunciations, some solutions identified by Nghi Loc District Police are to promote the movement of All People participating in protecting national security, maintain the Police forum to listen to people's opinions... Training will be strengthened on receiving and handling crime reports and denunciations, along with propaganda to raise people's awareness and vigilance against criminal acts and new types of crimes; add more mailboxes and hotlines for crime reports and denunciations...