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Ministry of Public Security: Department of Criminal Police

Address

Department of Criminal Police
Ministry of Public Security
60 Nguyen Du Street
Hanoi
Vietnam

Contact Information

If calling from Vietnam:

Tel: 04 822 2537
Fax: 04 942 4381

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +84 4 822 2537
Fax: +84 4 942 4381

Activities

The Ministry of Public Security has the lead on all law enforcement issues. The Criminal Police is one of two main government agencies involved in efforts to combat trafficking.

The Social Evils Department of MOLISA and the Criminal Police Department of the MPS are the main government agencies involved in efforts to combat trafficking, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, the Women's Union, and the Border Guards. In recent years, the police have taken an increasingly active role in investigating trafficking cases.

The Vietnamese government does not implement specific anti-trafficking programs, although the Ministry of Public Security in 2003 did establish a separate office dedicated to trafficking concerns and held a high-level inter-agency meeting on improving performance on trafficking issues, chaired by a Deputy Prime Minister. The government, moreover, cooperated with several international organizations on anti-trafficking studies in 2003 and sponsored public awareness campaigns using television and newspapers.

In 2004, the Ministry of Public Security worked closely with the UNODC to train police officers, border army personnel, prosecutors and judges on human trafficking under the project entitled "Strengthening of the Legal and Law Enforcement Institutions in Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Persons in Viet Nam".