Vietnam focuses on combating transnational crime

The Prime Minister has approved a plan on the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.
The Prime Minister has approved a plan on the implementation of the UNConvention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocol toPrevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Womenand Children.

Under the plan, these documents willbe implemented together with the country’s action plans and programmeson crime combat and prevention, especially the 2012-2015 national targetprogramme on crime prevention, the action programme on fighting humantrafficking crime in the 2011-2015 period.

TheNational Steering Committee for Crime Combat and Prevention reportedthat in the first quarter, more than 14,000 criminal cases wereuncovered, up 4.83 percent from the previous quarter.

Of which,nearly 4,000 cases related to heroin trafficking, with over 7,000involved people arrested and 98 kilograms of heroin and 600 kilograms ofmarijuana seized, and 50 cases were engaged in human trafficking, with131 people arrested.-VNA

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Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Viet Hung meets with the OVs in Sakaeo province, Thailand. (Photo: VNA)

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