Detention centers nationwide enhance COVID-19 prevention

Major General Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, on August 24, attended a meeting reviewing COVID-19 prevention and control of the Police Department of Prison, Correctional Center and Juvenile Reformatory Management.

Major General Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, on August 24, attended a meeting reviewing COVID-19 prevention and control of the Police Department of Prison, Correctional Center and Juvenile Reformatory Management.

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  Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung speaks at the event.

According to reports at the meeting, the Police Department of Prison, Correctional Center and Juvenile Reformatory Management has instructed its sub-units to take preventive measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, disinfecting all work places, residential areas, quarantine zones of officers and soldiers as well as the detention cells.

100% of the officers and soldiers of its subunits have participated in preventing and controlling COVID-19 while maintaining security and order in the detention houses. All officers and soldiers at detention houses have been mobilized for work no one has been allowed to take leave during the pandemic.

Recently, the Police Department of Prison, Correction Center and Juvenile Reformatory Management has sent 50 officers and soldiers to Ho Chi Minh City to support the local police in controlling the pandemic, and one officer to a communal police post in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

Regarding the force’s key tasks in the coming time, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung asked leaders, officers and soldiers of the Police Department of Prison, Correction Center and Juvenile Reformatory Management to fight the pandemic in the most serious manner following the motto “fighting the COVID-19 pandemic like fighting an enemy”.

Particularly, leaders of the sub-units should revise all preventive measures and plans based on the real situation in their units and local areas, to effectively fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

In addition, leaders of all detention facilities should launch emulation movements among officers and soldiers to fight the pandemic and  support ones in need as well as to encourage officers, soldiers and workers to successfully complete their assigned tasks.

By Thien Minh

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