Speaking at the event, Secretary of the Central PublicSecurity Commission’s Party Committee and Minister of Public Security To Lam saidsince early this year, the people’s public security forces have strived tosafeguard national security, ensure social safety and order, contributing tomaintaining political stability and fulfilling socio-economic development goals.
The ministry reported that its units in localities havelaunched crackdowns on drug crimes, held conferences to improve working efficiencyof anti-drug and criminal police, and extended international cooperation in thefight against crimes.
They busted 20,595 cases, higher than last year’s sameperiod, including 9,391 economic, 2,053 smuggling and 11,324 drug cases, arrested42,785 criminals and raided 843 gangs.
Traffic accidents fell by 4.66 percent in terms of cases,2.85 percent in fatalities, and 14.43 percent in the number of the injured.
Among 1,809 search and rescue cases, 1,167 were infires with 256 people being saved and thousands others being guided to get outof danger.-VNA
