At the awards ceremony in Hanoi on April3, the AFP’s Deputy Commander Andrew Colvin said that both officersdeserved the medal for “ their outstanding devotion to duty, with theutmost integrity and for displaying leadership and commitment of thehighest standard and influencing international policing to benefit thepeople of Australia and Vietnam ”.
Major-GeneralTran Gia Cuong is currently Director-General of the InternationalCooperation Department and Major-General Vu Hung Vuong is the DeputyDirector-General of General Police Department for Crime Prevention andCombat.
The Commissioner’s Medal for Excellence is thehighest award the AFP can bestow. The medal has only been awarded 29times in the history of the AFP and never before to foreign lawenforcement officers.-VNA