Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Dang Hong Duc chaired a nationwide online conference on natural disaster prevention and control, response to extreme weather and climate change, and civil defense tasks for 2026, on the morning of July 4, in Hanoi.
At the conference, the Ministry of Public Security also launched a campaign to proactively respond to Typhoon No. 1 (Maysak).
In his opening remarks, Deputy Minister Dang Hong Duc emphasized that the conference was convened to strictly implement the directives of General Secretary and State President To Lam during his working session with the Government's Party Committee and relevant agencies regarding response efforts to storms, floods, extreme weather, and climate change from now until the end of 2026.
According to the Deputy Minister, against the backdrop of the entire country striving to achieve double-digit economic growth targets, natural disaster prevention and control is not merely a reactive task but a vital prerequisite to ensure rapid, stable and sustainable development.
Therefore, the entire People's Public Security Forces should shift decisively from a mindset of reactive response to proactive risk management; from mitigating consequences to early, long-range prevention; from seasonal instructions to routine preparedness; and from relying primarily on experience to data-driven, scientific, technological, and legally grounded management.
At the conference, Deputy Chief of the Ministry's Office Major General Nguyen Hong Nguyen presented a report on the performance of the People's Public Security Forces in civil defense, disaster prevention and consequence mitigation over the recent past. He also detailed the consistent guiding principles of the Public Security Central Party Committee and MPS leadership in this endeavor.
Concluding the conference, Deputy Minister Dang Hong Duc commended the achievements of public security units and local police departments in civil defense and disaster mitigation efforts. He affirmed that the People's Public Security Forces have systematically prepared its forces, vehicles, equipment, training, and contingency response plans ahead of the 2026 rainy and stormy season.
The Deputy Minister requested all public security units and local police forces to urgently deploy their formulated plans in a synchronized manner, maximize human and material resources, and actively respond to all disaster scenarios. He demanded that the entire force thoroughly internalize the guiding principle of General Secretary and State President To Lam: "Protecting people's lives is the highest requirement and the ultimate command," treating this as the overarching principle across all civil defense and disaster prevention operations.
Public security units and local police must continue their strong shift from reactive response to proactive risk management, reviewing and updating disaster scenarios to fit the practical realities of each locality. They must effectively leverage the "four-on-site" principle, in which commune-level police play the core role, coordinating closely with grassroots security and order protection forces to actively handle situations from the very first hour, ensuring no passive or unexpected complications arise.
