Hanoi Police seek approach to control murder crime

PSNews – The Municipal Police of Hanoi on June 29 organized a seminar themed “Murder crime – psychological and social causes, approaches to control murder in Hanoi”. Major General Dinh Van Toan, Vice Director of the Hanoi Municipal Police Department presided over the seminar.

An overview of the seminar
An overview of the seminar 

Delegates of the seminar discussed and analyzed causes of serious murder crimes.

Major General Tran Vi Dan, Director of the Political Academy of Public Security, spoke highly of the Police of Hanoi’s organization of the seminar and highlighted the significance of the seminar in prevention of murder crimes. He also deeply analyzed psychological aspects of murderers, clarified the psychological origins and motives of this kind of crime.

Major General Dan also proposed various measures to prevent crimes from the psychological perspective such as changing circumstances, conditions, situations risking the crime; changing negative human qualities and psychological developments likely leading to the crime of murder; and promoting law dissemination and education to raise public awareness of law observance.

Colonel To Cao Lanh, Head of Division 8 of the Criminal Police Department, said that murders resulting from conflicts accounted for a high proportion of the total murder cases. In addition, there are still various indirect causes, including negative impacts of the market economy, violence from movies and the internet.

In addition to professional preventive measures by the police, Colonel To Cao Lanh also proposed a number of solutions, particularly the responsibilities of relevant agencies and organizations, the government and political system in detecting, preventing, deterring and handling murder criminals.

Concluding the discussion, Major General Dinh Van Toan appreciated the opinions and solutions proposed by delegates, which may help Hanoi Police seek effective approaches to control murder crime as well as to handle this type of crime.

By Duy Tien

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