Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung, Permanent Vice Chairman of the MPS Science Council, chaired the ceremony.
The ceremony is of great significance as it took place in the context that MPS is implementing the Party and State’s policy on building truly clean, strong, regular, elite and modern Public Security Forces, as well as taking the lead in realizing the Politburo’s Resolution No. 57 to create breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation.
The celebration was a reaffirmation of the critical role of science and technology in the operation of the Public Security Forces.
At the event, the Public Security Central Party Committee honored scientists and scholars working with the Public Security Forces, and put forth orientations for development and modernization of science and technology in the Public Security Forces in the time to come.
During a discussion session, delegates discussed the significance of achievements in scientific research and technological applications in the Public Security Forces.
They also proposed various approaches to address existing obstacles to the development and application of science and technology in the Public Security Forces.
Addressing the ceremony, on behalf of the Public Security Central Party Committee and the leadership of MPS, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung extended his best regards to all delegates, scientists and officers in charge of science management on the occasion of the 2025 Vietnam Science and Technology Day.
To develop science and technology within the Public Security Forces to meet their increasing task requirements, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung emphasized that leaders of public security units and agencies should strengthen their direct and comprehensive leadership of scientific research and technological application, noting that development of science and technology can contribute to efficiency and effectiveness of all public security operations.
He also urged relevant units to continue building and improving mechanisms, policies and legal frameworks on science and technology with the aim of facilitating the development of science and technology, underscoring that removing the existing obstacles in legal documents must be considered the first and foremost “breakthrough of breakthroughs”.
In addition, the Deputy Minister underscored the need to strengthen international integration in science, technology and innovation to take a shortcut in the development of security-related industries and the application of advanced technologies in public security work.
He further stressed the importance of building a self-reliant security industry capable of receiving transfers of outcomes of scientific and technological research and turning them into products to serve the mission of safeguarding national security and ensuring social order.
