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Aviation security contributes to national security

Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang has requested closer collaboration between the police and functional airport forces to combat and prevent airborne crime when civil aviation security is crucial to national security.
Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang has requested closercollaboration between the police and functional airport forces to combatand prevent airborne crime when civil aviation security is crucial tonational security.

At a conference on civilaviation security and safety in Hanoi on December 10, General Quangstressed that greater attention is needed to ensure aviation securityand safety at a time when the country is proactively integrating intothe global life where there are numerous complicated developments.

The Ministry of Public Security has defined aviation security crucialto national security and ensuring aviation security essential tomaintaining national security.

Since 2010, throughtheir collaboration, the police and relevant airport agencies havebrought to light a number of terrorist-related plots and schemes,smuggling cases, trade frauds and the illegal transport of banned goodsand currencies to safeguard civil aviation safety and security.-VNA
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