Handling 44 party members, civil servants, and public employees for drug-related violations in 5 years

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, leaders of a number of relevant departments and branches.Photo: Thanh Duy

In the past 5 years, functional forces in the province have detected and arrested 5,328 cases/6,583 drug-related criminals; seized 279 kg of heroin, 201,266 pills and 6.3 kg of synthetic drugs, 24.6 kg of crystal meth, 28.3 kg of opium, 28.4 kg of marijuana...

Authorities have initiated investigations into 4,327 cases/5,076 defendants for drug crimes; prosecuted 4,293 cases/4,961 defendants; tried 4,175 cases/4,818 defendants, of which 38 defendants were sentenced to death, 60 defendants to life imprisonment, and 225 defendants to terms of 15-20 years in prison.

The work of reviewing, counting, classifying, managing addicts, organizing community drug rehabilitation and making records to send them to centralized drug rehabilitation has also been carried out with attention by Party committees, authorities and departments, branches and unions from the province down to the grassroots.

The province currently has 6,901 drug addicts with records, a decrease of 705 people compared to 2013; records were made to send 3,520 people to compulsory drug rehabilitation facilities; voluntary drug rehabilitation was organized for 1,475 people; community drug rehabilitation at commune, ward and town facilities was provided for 3,700 people and 315 people were treated at home.

Comrade Phan Duc Dong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Department spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Since Directive 13 - CT/TU, the whole province has discovered and handled 44 party members, civil servants, and public employees who violated drug-related laws, of which 41 were expelled from the Party, 2 were reprimanded, and 1 was suspended from activities. Administrative handling: 2 were dismissed from office, 6 were forced to quit their jobs.

Drug crimes are still complicated

However, according to the assessment, the situation of drug-related crimes and social evils is still complicated and potentially complicated; there are still many localities where the number of drug addicts has increased compared to 2013 such as: Quynh Luu, Yen Thanh, Ky Son, Con Cuong, Thai Hoa town...

Colonel Nguyen Huu Cau - Director of the Provincial Police Department spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Speaking at the meeting, Colonel Nguyen Huu Cau - Director of the Provincial Police Department, assessed that the drug trafficking situation in the province is very complicated. Previously, only the Drug Crime Investigation Police Department caught large drug rings with dozens of heroin cakes, but now many police in districts and cities have also caught large amounts of evidence.

“In the past five years, the functional forces fighting against drugs alone have suffered more than 40 injuries, including HIV exposure,” said Colonel Nguyen Huu Cau.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Xuan Duong highly appreciated the effectiveness and significance of the issuance and implementation of Directive 13 - CT/TU. Regarding the upcoming tasks, the head of the Provincial People's Committee suggested that more funding should be allocated to equip the functional forces with means in the fight against drugs.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also emphasized that the fight against drug abuse must be carried out more synchronously and drastically. "To do so, not only the police and border guards but also the entire political system must participate" - said the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, and at the same time suggested that there should be more specific regulations on rewards to motivate the functional forces.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Xuan Duong speaks at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Concluding this content, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh basically agreed with the draft report prepared by the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee; at the same time, he acknowledged the efforts to destroy drug trafficking rings and the work of local management.

The Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that the Internal Affairs Committee should coordinate with localities to review and commend for the entire period; at the same time, for localities with increased numbers, it is recommended to review more deeply the leadership and direction work and take measures to reduce crimes and social evils related to drugs.

Agreeing with the solutions proposed in the draft report, Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh also noted that there are additional legal recommendations to further improve the legal framework to more effectively combat drug-related crimes and drug addiction.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh delivered a concluding speech at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The head of the Provincial Party Committee also welcomed the good work of the authorities in recent times, especially the police and border guards who have completed their tasks of cracking down on major drug cases very well.

However, according to the Provincial Party Secretary, this is only the core force, and to better implement drug prevention and control work, the entire political system must participate.

Also this afternoon, the Provincial Party Standing Committee listened to and gave opinions on a number of other issues such as: converting the purpose of using rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land to implement investment projects;...