On the morning of November 6, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) held a ceremony to mark Viet Nam Law Day 2026 in the People's Public Security (PPS) Forces. The event reviewed policy communication efforts regarding draft laws chaired and prepared by the MPS for review at upcoming sessions of the 15th National Assembly, and summarized the results of the 2026 Contest for Outstanding Legal Rapporteurs and Communicators among the Grassroots Police Force.
Senior Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung, Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security, chaired the ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by Senior Lieutenant General Le Tan Toi, Member of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for National Defense, Security and Foreign Affairs; Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Gau, Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of National Defense; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ngoc, Deputy Minister of Justice; along with representatives from central agencies, ministries, sectors, National Assembly bodies, and judicial agencies.
The event was held in person at the MPS Headquarters (96 Nguyen Du Street, Ha Noi) and connected online to provincial and municipal Police Departments nationwide.
Delivering the opening remarks, Lieutenant General Pham Cong Nguyen, Director of the Department of Legal Affairs and Administrative and Judicial Reform, highlighted the role of the PPS Forces in implementing Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025, of the Politburo on reforming lawmaking and law enforcement to meet national development requirements in the new era.
Accordingly, the MPS's lawmaking and legal refinement work has seen positive transformations, notably a shift in mindset from focusing on state management to proactively facilitating development. The Ministry has modernized its lawmaking methods toward a scientific, professional, and strategically oriented approach that places citizens at the center, thereby helping to unlock resources, create momentum for socioeconomic development, and firmly safeguard national security and social order and safety.
In 2026, demonstrating a proactive, pioneering, and innovative spirit, the PPS Forces chaired the drafting of and submitted 304 legal normative documents to competent authorities for promulgation. The Ministry also chaired and coordinated with relevant agencies and units to submit eight draft laws and one resolution to the 16th National Assembly for consideration, discussion and adoption at its 2nd Session.
Alongside lawmaking efforts, the MPS has placed particular emphasis on enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement, closely linking legal development with the practical requirements of police duties, combat readiness, and service to the people. The Ministry has also strengthened discipline and administrative order to ensure that legal provisions are executed strictly, consistently, and effectively.
Legal communication, popularization and education across the PPS Forces have continued to receive close attention, undergoing reform in both content and delivery to suit specific target groups, localities and sectors. Relevant public security agencies and local police departments have proactively organized numerous practical activities, including conferences, seminars, legal knowledge competitions, and Law Day activities.
They have also developed specialized communication sections across mass media and leveraged digital technologies and social networks to bring legal information closer to officers, soldiers, and the public.
In particular, the PPS Forces have prioritized legal communication, dissemination, and education for residents in ethnic minority areas, remote and secluded regions, and areas with extremely difficult socioeconomic conditions, thereby helping to enhance legal awareness and compliance directly from the grassroots level.
A prominent highlight of 2026 was the successful organization of the Contest for Outstanding Legal Rapporteurs and Communicators among Grassroots Police Forces, featuring rich and creative presentation formats with content closely tied to practical police work, combat operations, and the daily lives of the people. The contest helped enhance the legal dissemination and education capacity of grassroots police officers, creating a positive ripple effect and encouraging effective models and innovative approaches to bringing the law into daily life.
At the ceremony, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung presented Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of Public Security to units and individual officers with outstanding achievements in institutional development, legal refinement, law enforcement, and legal communication and education. He also presented certificates and emblems to 10 exemplary individual officers recognized for their outstanding contributions to institutional building, legal refinement, and law enforcement within the PPS Forces during the 2024–2026 period.
Delivering his concluding and directive remarks at the ceremony, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung praised and commended the achievements and results accomplished by relevant public security agencies and local police departments in developing and perfecting the legal framework, organizing law enforcement, and observing Viet Nam Law Day 2026.
To continue effectively implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Congress of the Party, Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo, and the Resolution of the 8th Congress of the Public Security CPV Organization, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung requested that public security agencies and local police departments focus on carrying out several key tasks:
- First, continue to strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees and leaders of public security agencies and units at all levels regarding lawmaking and law enforcement in the field of security and order; uphold the responsibility of agency heads; and make a decisive shift from awareness to action, and from political determination to tangible results.
- Second, continue to innovate legislative thinking to both guarantee security and order requirements and facilitate development, encourage innovation, and unlock resources and capacities; ensure stable, simple, and easily enforceable laws that place citizens at the center while respecting, guaranteeing, and protecting human rights as well as the legitimate rights and interests of citizens.
- Third, promote innovation in legal communication, dissemination and education to raise awareness of upholding the Constitution and the law among public security officers and soldiers; build a contingent of PPS officers who thoroughly master and effectively apply the laws to their duties, serving as shining examples of legal compliance.
- Fourth, focus on building a clean, strong, regular, elite, and modern PPS Legal Affairs Force that is politically steadfast, professionally proficient, highly skilled in law and foreign languages, and deeply knowledgeable about the practical realities of security and order maintenance, meeting the requirements of strategic advisement, lawmaking, legal refinement, and law enforcement in the new context.
In response to Viet Nam Law Day 2026, under the motto “Utmost Discipline – Utmost Loyalty – Closest to the People,” every officer and soldier of the PPS Forces will continue to promote a pioneering and exemplary role in upholding the Constitution and the law, fostering a culture of legal compliance, and contributing to building a disciplined, safe, and civilized society, thereby laying a solid foundation for the rapid and sustainable development of the country in the new era.
