Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son attended and delivered a speech at the meeting. The event also saw the presence of former leaders of the Ministry of Public Security and under-ministerial departments, representatives of public security schools as well as former leaders, staff, and alumni of the E1171 School.
Half a century ago, following the resolution of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, the Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc Hoan signed a decision on October 29 to establish the Training School for Southern Security Officers, known as E1171 in Tinh Luyen village, Dong Tinh commune, Tam Duong district, Vinh Phuc province.
As its additional assignment, the school provided secondary education for more than 1,000 children of the Southern officials studying in the North, creating a source of police personnel for the southern provinces after 1975.
During 4 years from December 1971 until the national reunification in 1975, the school trained 2,580 Southern security officers, or more than 30% of the total number of public security officers from the South in the North as well as 11,648 security students from the North.
The Training School for Southern Security Officers is the forerunner of several present public security schools, including People's Security College 1, People’s Public Security University of Technology and Logistics, and People's Public Security Professional Training School.
At the event, Senior Colonel Nguyen Van Nghiem, former Rector of the E1171 School and Head of the school’s Alumni Liaison Board, briefed the delegates on the history and achievements of the training institution over the past five decades.
For his part, Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son expressed his pride of being an alumnus of the school and his delight at meeting with his schoolmates who have made great contributions and devotion to the Public Security Forces and to the country.
According to the Deputy Minister, under the sound leadership of the Party and the Ministry of Public Security, the Southern Security Officer Training School always fulfilled its missions in its historical periods.
Deputy Minister Son hoped that the former leaders, officers and alumni of the school will continue to make more positive contributions to the cause of protecting national security and social order as well as building revolutionary, professional, elite and modernized People's Public Security Forces.
