The People’s Police Academy under the Ministry of Public Security and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on April 13 signed an official document of Japan-funded project on traffic police training.

According to the Record of Discussions (R/D), the Project for Strengthening the Traffic Police Training in the People’s Police Academy and Various Police Training Institutions in Vietnam will be conducted in three years.

The 4 million USD project aims to enhance traffic-police training capability of the academy’s teachers, said the Saigon Giai phong (Saigon Liberation) daily on April 14.

During project implementation, the syllabus, training materials and training methods will be reviewed and revised, or newly formulated.

Modern equipments and teaching aids will be procured to help improve the quality of traffic-police training. Teachers of the Academy will be sent to Japan for training with support of Japan ’s National Police Agency. Experienced Japanese experts will be sent to Vietnam and work closely with the Academy.

JICA has initiated many projecjts on improving traffic safety over the past years, including the “Northern Vietnam National Roads Traffic Safety Improvement Project”, the “Project for Traffic Safety Human Resource Development in Hanoi” and the "Study on National Road Traffic Safety Master Plan in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam until 2020”.