The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management under the Ministry of Health (MoH) on March 31 requested Central Mental Hospital No1 to report on an illicit drug abuse case involving patients at the hospital.
The traffic police force nationwide embarked on a campaign to strictly handle traffic offences regarding drug and drink driving from August 1 to December 31.
Border guards of the central province of Quang Tri on November 6 coordinated with Lao competent forces to arrest three men, seizing 30,000 meth pills they were trafficking from Laos to Vietnam.
PSNews - The Investigation Police Department on Drug-related Crimes and the Police Departments of Tay Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City have just cracked down on a major transnational drug trafficking ring from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Border guards of the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien and Lao competent forces on May 18 arrested two Lao men for smuggling 120,000 meth pills.
The Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City has collaborated with the municipal police to detect three postal consignments containing nearly 8kgs of meth.
Border guards and police officers from the southwestern province of An Giang have arrested five people involving in the largest cross-border drug trafficking ring in the locality.
The Investigation Police Department for Drug-Related Criminals under the Ministry of Public Security has issued a decision to start legal proceedings for a major drug trafficking case involving four defendants, including one Chinese national, for the illegal transporting and smuggling of drugs.
The police of Vietnam and the Philippines have worked together on the trans-national case trafficking 300 kilos of drugs in Vietnam and seized 276 kilos more in the Philippines.
The Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with the Border Guards and the General Department of Vietnam Customs, broke a major drug trafficking ring on March 20, seizing 300kg of drugs.
Border guards in the central province of Quang Tri, in coordination with the security force of Savannakhet province of Laos, have arrested a Lao man for smuggling 94,000 meth pills.
Police in Bach Thong district, the northern province of Bac Kan, on October 16 arrested three men who smuggled 198 bricks of heroin from Laos into Vietnam. The drug was believed to be forwarded to China.
The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) launched many campaigns to crack down on crimes in the first half of 2018, thus uncovering a number of transnational drug trafficking rings, MPS Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. To Lam said on July 2.
Anti-drug police in Ha Long city of the northern province of Quang Ninh on June 29 discovered an illegal garden of marijuana in the city, seizing 62 marijuana plants.
Authorised forces in Ho Chi Minh City on June 27 discovered and seized about 12.5 kilogrammes of methamphetamine hidden in eight parcels sent to Vietnam from some European countries via express mail service (EMS).
Border guards of the central province of Thanh Hoa announced on May 9 that they caught two persons red-handed for carrying 34,000 meth pills from the Lao province of Houaphan to Vietnam.
Border guards in the northern province of Son La arrested two Lao nationals suspected of trafficking 18,000 pills of synthetic drugs and two bricks of heroin.
PSNews – Senior Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong, Deputy Minister of Public Security sent a letter to praise the General Department of Police and Cao Bang Provincial Police for successfully investigating a major drug case.
PSNews – The Standing Office on Drug Prevention and Control, under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), organized a training course on treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts for Cambodian officers.
