Hanoi (VNA) – Prime MinisterPham Minh Chinh outlined certain tasks for the public security force while attendingthe 79th National Public Security Conference opened in Hanoi onDecember 27.

The two-day event is held by theCentral Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security.

In his speech, PM Chinh said the people’spublic security force has reaped better results compared to last year thoughthere are more difficulties and challenges than opportunities and advantages inthe domestic and world situations in 2023.

It has fulfilled its role in advisingthe Party and State about political, economic, social, security, order, anddiplomatic affairs; guaranteeing peace, security, and stability for development;helping perfect the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, andbuild a law-governed socialist State; and protecting national security as wellas social order and safety, he noted.

The force has taken the lead in andinspired ministries, sectors, and localities’ actions in administrative reform,e-Government building, and digital transformation. It has also activelypromoted external relations and international cooperation while setting a goodexample of implementing the Party and public security force building tasks.

In addition, it has managed tomobilise the entire political system’s engagement in protecting security andorder and fighting crimes, and also coordinated with all-level Party committeesto ensure social security, according to the PM.

Asbigger difficulties and challenges are predicted for 2024, he asked the publicsecurity force to proactively grasp, assess, and forecast the domestic,regional, and global situations to submit proposals to the Party and State.

The force needs to press on withmaintaining political stability and social order and safety; expanding externalrelations; creating an environment of peace, security, and stability fordevelopment; thwarting and combating all sabotage plots and activities by hostile and reactionary forces, along with “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”.

Ithas to guarantee absolute safety for important targets and events of thecountry, activities of Party and State leaders, foreign delegations, andinternational conferences in Vietnam; proactively detect, prevent, and deal withsecurity and order problems right from the grassroots level; and avoidpassivity in security, order, and safety affairs, the Government leader went on.

PMChinh also ordered strongly promoting administrative reform and digitaltransformation, developing the security industry, investing more ingrassroots-level public security units and those directly engaging in combatantactivities, boosting external relations, and holding security dialogues with importantpartners.

Besides,the force needs to coordinate with ministries, sectors, and all-level Partycommittees and administrations, especially the army, courts, and procuracies,to carry out the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws on protectingnational security and social order and safety. It also needs to keep taking thelead in the Party building and rectification and build a clean and strongpublic security force, he said.

The PM stressed that the Party,State, and people believe that the force will continue to uphold its tradition of heroism, be a role model in implementing the Party and State’s guidelinesand policies, exert stronger efforts to serve the Fatherland and people, anddeserve its status as a crucial, trustworthy, and absolutely loyal armed forceof the Party, State, and people./.