Nghe An: Strictly prohibit all acts of covering up or ignoring violations of alcohol concentration when driving vehicles in traffic.

Accordingly, in order to strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities and the participation of the entire political system; strengthen discipline and administrative discipline, enhance the responsibility of heads of Party committees, authorities, agencies and units in ensuring traffic safety, gradually "restore order and discipline in compliance with traffic laws by both traffic participants and traffic law enforcers", the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee requests the Party Executive Committee, Party delegation, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, heads of departments, branches, sectors at the provincial, district, city, town levels, and affiliated Party Committees to seriously implement the following contents:

1.Continue to thoroughly grasp and synchronously and effectively implement directives, resolutions, conclusions and guiding documents of the Central and the province on ensuring traffic safety. At the same time, thoroughly grasp, propagate and remind cadres, civil servants, public employees, party members, armed forces, and employees of units and localities to voluntarily and strictly comply with the provisions of the law on ensuring traffic safety; Law on prevention and control of harmful effects of alcohol and beer; Official Dispatch No. 488/CD-TTg, dated June 3, 2022 of the Prime Minister on compliance with regulations on prevention and control of harmful effects of alcohol and beer; Directive No. 19/CT-UBND, dated September 20, 2022 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on rectifying and improving the effectiveness of ensuring traffic safety in the province... Require each cadre, civil servant, public employee, party member, and armed force to be exemplary and take the lead in complying with the provisions of the law on traffic safety. In particular, do not drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or beer and do not ride in vehicles driven by drivers who have consumed alcohol or beer.

Traffic police set up checkpoints to check alcohol levels on the streets of Vinh city. Photo: Vuong Linh

2.Effectively carry out propaganda, dissemination and education on traffic safety laws, condemn the act of using alcohol when driving; focus on warning about the causes and consequences of traffic accidents due to violations of regulations on alcohol concentration when driving, regulations on handling violations... Thereby, forming the habit and culture of not driving when using alcohol and not sitting in vehicles when the driver has used alcohol. At the same time, create public opinion to sympathize, support, coordinate and help the police force in the process of performing their duties. In addition, direct to continue building and developing the movement "All people participate in ensuring traffic safety", building a culture of safe traffic and a culture of "If you drink alcohol - do not drive" to all classes of people.

3.Review and add the content "Do not drive a vehicle when drinking alcohol, alcoholic beverages, or stimulants" to the working regulations and internal rules of agencies and units, propose strict sanctions for individuals who violate and handle the responsibility of the heads and related groups; require party members, cadres, soldiers, civil servants, and public employees to write a commitment not to violate the above content.

Directing cadres, civil servants, public employees, party members, armed forces, and workers of units and localities to coordinate and support the police force in general and the traffic police in particular in inspecting and handling violations of alcohol concentration when driving vehicles. Strictly prohibiting all acts of opposition and interference in any form with the handling of violations by the authorities.

Heads of agencies, units, and localities are responsible before the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee if they allow cadres, civil servants, public employees, and party members of their agencies or units to violate or do not strictly or properly handle violations of regulations on driving vehicles while drinking alcohol or using stimulants.

4.The Party Executive Committee of the Provincial People's Committee has led the strengthening of inspection, control, and implementation of solutions to reduce traffic accidents. Including:

- Directing to accelerate the progress and improve the quality of investment in construction, upgrading the transport infrastructure system in conjunction with maintenance, ensuring traffic safety and effectively exploiting existing infrastructure works. Regularly review and prioritize resources to completely handle black spots and potential traffic accident spots in the area.

- Direct the Provincial Radio and Television Station, Nghe An Newspaper, local news agencies and newspapers to regularly edit and publish articles to propagate legal regulations on traffic safety and order: Law on Prevention and Control of Harmful Effects of Alcohol and Beer and the causes and consequences of traffic accidents in general, traffic accidents due to alcohol concentration violations in particular to raise awareness among people when participating in traffic, strictly implement and form a culture of "If you drink alcohol, beer - do not drive".

- Direct the Provincial Traffic Safety Committee to continue monitoring, urging and inspecting members in implementing the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcohol Harm; Official Dispatch No. 488/CD-TTg, dated June 3, 2022 of the Prime Minister on compliance with regulations on prevention and control of alcohol harm; Directive No. 19/CT-UBND, dated September 20, 2022 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on rectifying and improving the effectiveness of ensuring traffic safety in the province...

5.The Provincial Police Party Committee directed the effective implementation of handling violations and preventing traffic accidents, focusing on strengthening inspections and regularly and resolutely handling violations of alcohol concentration. Including:

- In the process of handling violators who are cadres, civil servants, public employees, party members, or armed forces, in addition to handling according to the provisions of law, a notice of the violation must be sent to the head of the agency or unit for review and handling according to regulations. At the same time, it must be sent to the inspection committee and the internal affairs agency at the same level to monitor the handling of violating civil servants, public employees, armed forces, and party members.

- Thoroughly educate officers and soldiers in the process of handling traffic law violations to absolutely respect the law, "no forbidden zones, no exceptions, no cases of intervention, please ignore violations, strictly handle according to regulations those who take advantage of, pretend to work for state agencies, the press, take advantage of social networks to influence the handling of the police force... Strictly prohibit all acts of covering up, changing, ignoring violations of alcohol concentration when driving a vehicle in traffic.

6.The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department directs information and propaganda work on mass media, creating consensus and support from the people, contributing to raising awareness of law enforcement on traffic safety of local people.

7.The Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee presides over and coordinates with the Department of Home Affairs to monitor and synthesize the situation of civil servants, public employees, armed forces, and party members violating traffic safety regulations; periodically every 6 months and 1 year, synthesize and report the results to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee for monitoring and direction.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee assigns the Provincial Party Committee's Party Building Committee, the Provincial People's Committee's Party Committee, and the Provincial Public Security Party Committee, according to their functions and tasks, to advise, direct, inspect, and urge the implementation of this Official Dispatch.

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