Politburo Member and Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended and delivered a directive speech at the conference, which was chaired by Politburo Member, Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee and Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang.
Delivering his directive speech at the conference on behalf of the Party and State leaders, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung acknowledged, congratulated, and praised the PPSF for their significant achievements and results in the first half of 2026.
The Prime Minister shared an overview of recent global and domestic situations, highlighting various difficulties and challenges. Amidst such a challenging context, the Prime Minister affirmed that national security protection and the maintenance of social order and safety had still achieved outstanding results. These efforts have contributed to firmly safeguarding the nation's independence, sovereignty and interests; protecting the Party, the State and the people; creating a peaceful, stable and favorable environment for development; building a disciplined, civilized and modern society; and bringing a peaceful, safe and healthy life to the people.
The Prime Minister emphasized five prominent results achieved by the PPSF in the first six months of the year:
Firstly, the PPSF has taken a exemplary lead in implementing the strategic guidelines and resolutions of the Party, the Politburo and the Secretariat. The PPSF has focused on grasping and concretizing new mindsets regarding national security strategy and proactive security, closely integrating security with development, and national defense with public service. It promptly institutionalized Party guidelines and spearheaded the drafting and finalization of critical legal documents concerning security and crime prevention.
Secondly, the PPSF has elevated its strategic advisory role, helping the Party Central Committee and the Government shape numerous vital policies. “This clearly demonstrates the capacity, vision, bravery, and proactiveness of the PPSF. In the first half of the year, the Ministry of Public Security submitted over 1,200 high-quality advisory reports. Notably, these reports did not merely focus on national security protection but also included numerous recommendations and proposals across various sectors, especially assisting the Government in macroeconomic management, maintaining macro stability, and mobilizing and developing resources,” Prime Minister Le Minh Hung affirmed. He also noted that the Politburo highly appreciated the MPS's advisory work in drafting the National Security Strategy and the Party Central Committee's Resolution on building a disciplined, safe, civilized, harmonious and developing society.
Thirdly, the PPSF has continued to innovate state management of security and order toward a more modern, effective, and efficient direction; most importantly, bringing it closer to the people to better serve them and support developmental goals. The PPSF has leveraged its core, pioneering role in advancing science and technology, innovation and digital transformation. Addressing the one-year review of the two-tier local public security system linked to new administrative boundaries, the Prime Minister noted: “It can be said that the commune-level police contribute not only to maintaining grassroots stability, which is a crucial factor in sustaining stability and serving development goals, but also to executing various tasks of grassroots-level governments, particularly in digital transformation and applying science and technology to grassroots leadership and governance.”
The Prime Minister emphasized that the MPS, acting as the standing body, has taken the lead and served as the core force in implementing Government Resolution 57 across all sectors, contributing to the fundamentally smooth operation of the National Public Service Portal and preventing disruptions in administrative procedures. This has been a highly effective measure in reducing compliance costs as well as time for citizens and businesses.
The fourth prominent result, according to the Prime Minister, was the synchronous, focused and decisive fight against crime and legal violations. The PPSF proactively identified new criminal methods and modalities; protected market integrity, social ethics and public health, and reinforced public trust in the laws and the State.
The PPSF implemented effective measures to detect and proactively counter the plots, tactics and sabotage activities of hostile forces. It promptly identified loopholes and shortcomings in mechanisms and policies to propose comprehensive, comprehensive and strategic solutions to perfect the nation's institutional and legal systems, serving management and governance, building an economic security posture, and contributing to preventing instability or crises amidst adverse conditions, while improving asset recovery in economic and corruption cases.
“The Politburo and the Government especially appreciate the PPSF's recent advisory work on issues related to the enforcement of tax laws and policies, attracting foreign investment, protecting public health, ensuring food safety and hygiene, safeguarding the environment, protecting state secrets, and ensuring cybersecurity,” Prime Minister Le Minh Hung emphasized.
The fifth outstanding achievement, according to Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, is that the building of the PPSF has continued to see clear transformations in mindset, organization, discipline, order and personnel capacity. The PPSF is increasingly loyal, brave, dedicated, professional, closely linked to the grassroots, legally knowledgeable, technologically proficient, and capable of handling complex, interdisciplinary and cross-border issues.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung expressed deep sympathy and profound gratitude to the families, relatives and units of the public security martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers who had bravely fought and made sacrifice for the peace of the people. In the first six months of 2026, two officers heroically sacrificed their lives and 41 were wounded in the line of duty. The Prime Minister urged the MPS and local units to execute support policies for those who had rendered meritorious service to the nation, and to care for the lives of the relatives of officers and soldiers who had sacrificed themselves for the country and its people.
He also urged the PPSF to continue maximizing its core role in leading the collection, analysis, construction and management of the DNA database of martyrs' relatives, contributing to achieving the goals of the "500 Days and Nights" Campaign to accelerate the search, gathering, and identification of martyrs' remains. This mission is entering a decisive phase, which has also been directly directed and approved by the Politburo recently.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung outlined major task groups for the PPSF to focus on, as follows:
First, continue to take an exemplary lead in concretizing and implementing the strategic guidelines of the Party and the policies and laws of the State; pioneer in creating development through concrete, measurable results and products; actively review and recommend fixes for loopholes and shortcomings in mechanisms, policies, and laws; and focus on removing bottlenecks to unlock resources for double-digit growth targets.
“First, the PPSF should focus on providing strategic advice to implement resolutions following the 3rd Meeting of the Party Central Committee, as well as the conclusions of the Politburo. Construct and complete on time, with guaranteed quality, 8 draft laws and resolutions scheduled to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration, comments and passage, especially the amended Penal Code project, the amended Law on Organization of Criminal Investigation Bodies project and the amended Law on Handling of Administrative Violations project. Second, the PPSF should actively coordinate with ministries, sectors and relevant agencies to build institutions in the spirit of the Party's guidelines, which closely integrate the assurance of security and order with socio-economic development. Third, the PPSF should ensure security and order, contributing to expanding development space,” the Prime Minister stated.
Second, enhance strategic forecasting capabilities and build a unified forecasting system that integrates foreign affairs, national defense, security, economy, finance, technology, society, and cyberspace. The PPSF should firmly grasp situations from early on, from afar and from the grassroots level; detect trends, shifts and strategic changes to not only warn of risks but also propose principles, solutions and countermeasures for proactive prevention.
Third, focus on building an economic security shield and a national firewall in cyberspace. Materialize the true role of forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level; consolidate and expand drug-free communes and wards; and decisively reduce social order crimes by an additional 10%.
Fourth, improve the efficiency of resolving crime reports and denunciations; fiercely combat all types of crimes, especially those involving market manipulation, policy profiteering, banking and finance, intellectual property and fraud, and target crimes that distort the investment and business environment or weaken the internal strength of the economy. Accelerate the investigation, prosecution, and trial of corruption, waste, and negative cases, maximizing the recovery of lost assets.
Fifth, accelerate the development of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and the security industry, treating them as strategic tools to enhance national security protection capabilities. As the standing agency of the Government Steering Committee, the MPS should continue to maximize its core role in advising, urging, inspecting, and guiding ministries, sectors, and localities to implement Resolution No. 57, focusing on promoting the completion of databases to serve the smooth operation of the National Public Service Portal and administrative procedures independent of administrative boundaries. This is a central, strategic task that must be urgently deployed according to the roadmap for core, strategic, and dual-use technological products in the security field.
Sixth, the Prime Minister requested the MPS to continue strengthening external public security relations with a pioneering, path-finding mindset, contributing to building strategic trust with partners. According to his instructions, the MPS should actively participate in cooperation mechanisms to help shape international security standards, creating a peaceful and stable environment and generating further development opportunities for the country while promoting the role of the PPSF in international cooperation mechanisms, UN peacekeeping operations, and the fight against transnational crime, money laundering, asset recovery, cybersecurity, and digital sovereignty protection.
Seventh, the PPSF is required to build a truly clean, strong, regular, elite, and modern PPSF while the MPS should urgently establish a framework to evaluate the result of task implementation of every public security officer, with substantive, objective and non-formalistic scoring and ranking criteria for the heads of all public security units and agencies. Meanwhile, the MPS is urged to enhance the development of high-quality human resources in technology, data, cybersecurity and financial investigation.
