Who is responsible for preventing and fighting crime?
(Baonghean.vn) - Ms. Lu Thi Thao, residing in Quy Chau district, asked according to the provisions of the Penal Code, who is responsible for preventing and combating crime?
Reply:
Article 4 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended and supplemented in 2017, clearly stipulates the responsibility for preventing and combating crime as follows:
1. The Public Security, People's Procuracy, People's Court and other relevant agencies are responsible for fully performing their functions, tasks and powers, and at the same time guiding and assisting other State agencies, organizations and individuals in preventing and combating crime, supervising and educating criminals in the community.
2. Agencies and organizations have the duty to educate those under their management to raise vigilance, awareness of protecting and obeying the law, respecting the rules of socialist life; promptly taking measures to eliminate the causes and conditions that cause crime within their agencies and organizations.
3. Every citizen has the obligation to actively participate in crime prevention and control.
This law shows that the responsibility for preventing and combating crime belongs to the whole society and is not limited to the responsibility of agencies and organizations within the state apparatus.
Clause 3, Article 4 of the Penal Code also clearly states that the responsibility to prevent and combat crime is the responsibility of every citizen.
Every citizen has the responsibility to participate in the fight against crime as a denouncer, a person reporting on crimes, proposing prosecution or as a witness (Article 55, Criminal Procedure Code).