Police (Vietnam)

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The Vietnamese People's Security Forces ( Vietnamese : Công an Nhân dân Việt Nam ) are the nationwide police force in Vietnam .

organization

The Vietnamese People's Security Forces are under the control of the Ministry of the Interior (since 1998: Ministry of Public Security) under the Minister General Tô Lâm . They are divided into the

  • People's police with original police tasks and the
  • Public security with tasks related to state security

Headquarters are in the five largest cities in the country:

  1. Ho Chi Minh City : 6,642,000 inhabitants
  2. Hanoi : 3,442,000 inhabitants
  3. Da Nang : 915,000 inhabitants
  4. Hai Phong : 842,000 inhabitants
  5. Bien Hoa : 821,000 inhabitants

In fact, Vietnam has no independent police force and no independent judiciary . The persons acting in the Vietnamese legal system are all selected directly or indirectly by the Communist Party or the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, whereby political reliability is an important selection criterion. Current figures on the strength of the People's Security Forces are not available. But it is assumed that there will be up to 1.2 million employees.

history

The Vietnamese People's Security Forces were founded on August 19, 1945 ( August Revolution ) in North Vietnam by Võ Nguyên Giáp . With the military defeat of South Vietnam in 1975, on July 2, 1976, Vietnam was reunified as the "Socialist Republic of Vietnam". Since then, the People's Security Forces have been responsible for all of Vietnam.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ citypopulation.de (as of 2016)
  2. ^ Carlyle A. Thayer: The Apparatus of Authoritarian Rule in Viet Nam in Jonathan London, ed., Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Party, State, and Authority Relations. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 135–161 (English)

Web links

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