New York (VNA) – Vietnam is actively preparing to send its policemen to UNpeacekeeping missions, said Lieut. Gen. Tran Van Ve, Acting General Director ofthe General Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, at the UnitedNations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) that took place in New York on June 21.

Currently,Vietnam is joining hands with the international community to overcomeconsequences of conflicts in the world, Ve said at the summit which drew theattendance of police chiefs from 193 UN member countries.

More than30 Vietnamese military officers have engaged in peacekeeping missions in SouthSudan and the Central African Republic, he noted.

He saidthat Vietnam highly evaluated the UNCOPS mechanism and believed that it will helpoptimise values of UN police forces, contributing to ensuring peace, settlingsecurity challenges, and promoting efforts in protecting social order innational and UN scales.

The UNCOPsalso helps strengthen partnership and share information and experience among membercountries and partners, Ve said, adding that Vietnam strongly supports andhopes the mechanism will continue to be maintained and developed.

He stated thatcurrently, the situation of organized and trans-national crimes in the worldand the region is developing complicatedly with different forms, includingdrug-related crimes, weapon and human trafficking, money laundry, internationaleconomic crimes and high-technology crimes.

These arebig challenges to law enforcement forces in all countries in the world andVietnam in particular, Ve stressed.

In order tocope with these challenges, Vietnam has coordinated closely with police forces ofother countries, he said, adding that the cooperation results have beenrecognised and lauded by the international community, continuing to fulfillingthe common goals of the international law enforcement forces and protectingsecurity, peace, human rights, prosperity and sustainable development.

To furtherpromote the efficiency of operations of the UN police force, Ve suggestedstronger collaboration between the force and existing police mechanisms such asInterpol, Europol and ASEANPOL, aiming to share information and coordinate moresmoothly in operations.

The membercountries should also increase the sharing of resources and information with theUN police force, thus maximizing their assistance in building and improvingcapacity for police who will join UN peace keeping operations.

The UNpolice was first deployed in 1960. Over the past 58 years, the force has becomea key pillar of the peacekeeping operations. Currently, the force has about 11,000officers from 89 countries, who have been deployed to UN missions around theworld.-VNA