From an orphan boy to the only person from Nghe An to achieve the title of excellent young civil servant nationwide

Orphaned, had to travel a long way to school

Gentle and friendly, knowledgeable and enthusiastic, that is the comment of many people when meeting Vo Trong Thang (born 1987) - an officer of the Con Cuong District Procuracy. "I lost my father at the age of 9, my mother worked hard to raise two brothers and received help from many people to get to where she is today. Therefore, I must always be cheerful and polite to everyone as a way to repay some of their kindness" - Thang shared.

Comrade Truong Hoa Binh - Politburo member, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister awarded the Certificate of Merit "5th National Excellent Cadre, Civil Servants, Public Employees, and Young People" to Prosecutor Vo Trong Thang (white shirt). Photo: Ba Hau

Vo Trong Thang lives in Thong Nhat village, Mau Duc commune (Con Cuong). His father died in an accident when he was only 9 years old. His mother took on the responsibility of raising two young children. His family was poor, conditions were difficult and arduous, but the orphaned boy always tried to excel in his studies. From grade 1 to grade 12, he was an excellent and advanced student. During his high school years, his house was nearly 10km away from school, the road was always muddy, the student named Thang had to stay at the school, had to walk there and back every week and take care of his own activities.

In this poor rural area, people's knowledge is limited, especially in terms of legal knowledge, so Thang dreams of studying Law to return to help his fellow countrymen. With that dream, in 2005 Thang took the entrance exam and was admitted to Hanoi Law University, and 4 years later became a Bachelor of Law.

After graduating, it took Thang 2 years to find a job. In 2011, Thang was recruited by the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province and assigned to work at the People's Procuracy of Con Cuong district. After working for a short time, his mother became seriously ill and passed away. From then on, Thang had to take care of his younger sister in her place.

Efforts to fight wrongful convictions and missed criminals

Working in the Procuracy, Vo Trong Thang has experienced many positions such as office, statistics, complaint and denunciation inspection and practicing the right to prosecute and prosecutor in initiating, investigating, prosecuting and trying criminal cases. Thanks to that, Thang has accumulated a lot of experience and always devoted all his strength, intelligence and enthusiasm to the common work.

Certificate of Merit from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union awarded to Vo Trong Thang. Photo: Cong Kien

“In recent years, the biggest problem for the prosecution agencies is preventing wrongful convictions and letting criminals escape. To limit this problem, I have constantly researched, learned, and found many initiatives and measures to minimize it,” Thang said.

When assigned by the unit leader to practice the right to prosecute and inspect sources of information about crimes and criminal cases, Thang always proactively coordinates with investigators to resolve denunciations and reports about crimes, proposes specific and detailed requests to verify reports, collects complete information, and then proceeds to classify subjects. For difficult and complicated denunciations and reports, Thang proposes to coordinate inter-sectoral meetings to unify the resolution viewpoint, avoiding the situation of criminalizing civil affairs and vice versa.

After more than 7 years of working, with carefulness, enthusiasm and dedication to work, Vo Trong Thang has always completed the assigned tasks. Notably, for 5 consecutive years (2014 - 2018), Thang has always been classified as an excellent performer of his tasks; 3 consecutive years of achieving the title of Emulation Fighter at the grassroots level; was awarded a Certificate of Merit and recognized as Emulation Fighter of the People's Procuracy sector in 2017 by the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy.

Prosecutor Vo Trong Thang provides legal advice to citizens in the area. Photo: Ba Hau

In addition, Vo Trong Thang is also known as an exemplary and enthusiastic Youth Union officer, currently the Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union of the Court - Institute - Execution of Judgments of Con Cuong district. In this position, Thang and his comrades in the Executive Committee regularly mobilize Youth Union members to organize volunteer activities to help poor children and participate in new rural development...

In recognition of the efforts of prosecutor Vo Trong Thang, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union decided to award the “5th National Excellent Cadre, Civil Servants, Public Employees, and Young People” Award. It is known that the whole country has 36 faces awarded, Thang is the only representative of Nghe An and also the only face of the Procuracy to receive this award.

This is a noble award to encourage, honor and reward young cadres, civil servants and public employees working in state administrative agencies and state-owned enterprises with outstanding achievements in training, labor and work; being advanced examples in concretizing the movements "3 responsibilities", "Young creativity", and participating in administrative reform.

Vo Trong Thang shared: "Receiving the award "National Excellent Young Cadres, Civil Servants and Public Employees" is a great honor and motivation for me to continue to strive in my professional and Youth Union activities."