6 special protection modes for senior leaders

The draft Law on Security Guards proposes six groups of measures and special protection regimes for the General Secretary, President, National Assembly Chairman and Prime Minister.

The draft Law on Security Guards was submitted by Minister of Public Security To Lam to the National Assembly during the working session on October 31. Accordingly, security guarding is a special protection task organized by the state to ensure absolute safety for the guarded subjects.

Senior Lieutenant General To Lam said that the 2005 Guard Ordinance has created an important legal basis for the guard force to perform well its assigned tasks, contributing to serving the cause of protecting the Party and the State as well as protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety.

However, according to the Minister of Public Security, the highest legal document in the field of security is the ordinance, so its enforcement is low and not commensurate with the position, functions, tasks and powers of the security force in the current situation... Meanwhile, the country is in the process of integration, Party and State leaders regularly visit and work in countries around the world; our country also increasingly welcomes many delegations of heads of state and international delegations, and organizes many important political, economic and social events.

"Therefore, the requirements for security work are becoming more and more difficult and complicated. Specific regulations are needed to create a more complete legal basis for security forces to perform their duties, contributing to ensuring security and order in the new situation," said Senior Lieutenant General To Lam.

Minister of Public Security To Lam read the draft Law on Guards on the morning of October 31. Photo: Giang Huy.

The draft Law on Guards devotes an article to regulating measures and regimes for security guards for those holding high-ranking positions and titles of the Party, the State and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. In particular, for the General Secretary, the President, the Chairman of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister, the draft Law applies 6 groups of measures and regimes for security guards. The first is close protection, which is understood as a security measure undertaken by security officers, carried out regularly and directly to ensure absolute safety in all situations for the subject of protection.

The next security measures and regime is to arrange armed security forces to patrol and guard regularly at residences and workplaces; check the security and safety of belongings, items, means of transport, explosives, flammable substances, biological, chemical and radioactive substances; test food and drinking water before use; and increase security forces and means when necessary.

Along with that, when traveling by car, the General Secretary, the President, the Chairman of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister are arranged with a police car as escort; when traveling by train, they are arranged with a private car; when traveling by plane, they are allowed to use a special compartment or plane; when traveling by ship, they are allowed to use a private ship or boat with escort vehicles for protection and are arranged with forces to go ahead to grasp the situation, survey, develop and deploy protection plans.

The sixth group of security regimes is other professional measures as prescribed by the Law on People's Public Security and the Law on National Security.

It is expected that on November 9, the National Assembly will discuss the draft Law on Security Guards.

According to VNE