Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has presented the Gold Star Order, the noblest decoration of the Vietnamese State, to the People’s Public Security Institute on the occasion of its 65th anniversary.

At the ceremony in Hanoi on Nov. 11, PM Dung commended the institute’s lecturers and students on their contributions to ensuring national security over the past 65 years.

The institute should enhance training the police forces with political firmness and a pure revolutionary quality, he said.

The PM said “The institute should develop itself into a major scientific centre, gaining prestige not only in the public security sector but also in other fields. The institute should contribute to perfecting professional theories, techniques and skills in its speciality, thus helping address effectively newly-arising issues in the era of international integration and globalisation.”

He said he hope the institute will become a major university of the public security sector and the nation and successfully complete its assigned task and make more practical contributions to the national education and training cause and the police forces.

Director of the Institute Phan Duc Du said that the institute has fulfilled its political tasks assigned by the Party, State and the Ministry of Public Security and met the demands of the fight to ensure national security in different periods of the revolution.

At present, more than half of its lecturers hold doctorates and masters degrees, he added./.