At the meeting, Deputy Minister Le Van Tuyen and Vice Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) highly valued the cooperation results between the two police forces in recent years, particularly in combating transnational crimes affecting both countries, including high-tech crime, human trafficking, transnational fraud and terrorism.
The two head delegates reached consensus that the effective cooperation between the two police forces has significantly contributed to ensuring safety and security of two countries’ citizens while fostering the socio-economic development of each country.
To enhance the effectiveness of cooperation between the two police forces amidst the increasingly complicated development of transnational crimes in each country and in the world, Deputy Minister Le Van Tuyen and Fedpol’s Vice Director Simon Spoerri agreed that the two sides need to further strengthen collaboration in specific areas of mutual interest in the coming time.
Accordingly, the two sides should further enhance exchange of delegations at both high levels and lower levels to deepen bilateral cooperation, while speeding up the negotiation and signing of bilateral cooperation agreements on law enforcement, especially the agreements on protection and exchange of confidential information, extradition and transfer of sentenced persons.
Additionally, the two sides agreed to regularly exchange hands-on experiences in law enforcement, share criminal information and jointly investigate criminal cases involving the two countries’ citizens, as well as track and arrest fugitives wanted by each country.
The two sides also consented to strengthen cooperation in preventing and combating all types of crimes, especially transnational crimes, drug-related crimes, terrorism, high-tech crimes, environmental crimes, and human trafficking, while enhancing consultation and mutual support at multilateral police cooperation forums of the United Nations and INTERPOL.
The two sides also agreed to enhance cooperation in training and building the capacity of their law enforcement forces, particularly the forces in charge of combating transnational crimes, while ensuring security, safety and legitimate rights and interests of each country's citizens in the other country.
Finally, they also committed to preventing any individuals or organizations from taking advantage of one country's territory to carry out sabotage activities against the other country.
