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| People's Public Security of Vietnam Công an Nhân dân Việt Nam | |
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| Common name | police (cảnh sát), public security (công an) |
| Abbreviation | PPS (CAND) |
| Motto | Protecting the Fatherland's Security Bảo vệ an ninh tổ quốc |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 19 August, 1945 |
| Legal personality | Police force |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Vietnam |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of Public Security |
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| March: We Are The Policemen (authored by Professor, People's Artist Trọng Bằng) Colors: Yellow Red Green | |
ThePeople's Public Security of Vietnam (Vietnamese:Công an Nhân dân Việt Nam), alternatively thePeople's Public Security Forces (PPS;Vietnamese:Lực lượng Công an Nhân dân -CAND), also recognized as theVietnamese Police or by its Vietnamese short nameCông an (lit. 'the Public Security/Police';IPA:[kəwŋ͡m˧˧ʔaːn˧˧]), is the nationalpolice and the main domesticsecurity force ofVietnam.
The People's Public Security of Vietnam has two branches: the People's Security and the People's Police (including Civil Defense forces). These two forces are trained and educated mainly at two institutions, thePeople's Police Academy and the People's Security Academy, both located in the capital city of Hanoi.
The People's Security prevents, investigates, and eliminates potential actions from enemies of the Vietnamese state that could endanger national security. It engages in espionage and joins forces with other uniformed bodies as established by law in internal political security, economic security, ideological and cultural security, network security, and informational security. It manages entrance and exit visas, border security crossing and checkpoints, and immigration stations in airports, as well as in securing foreigners and Vietnamese expats during their visits to the country. It also defends the secrecy of the government of the republic against external and internal threats and helps to build personal security in every aspect of life and every area of the country. In accordance with the Vietnamese law, it performs several other missions and responsibilities under the law of Vietnam.
The People's Police prevents, investigates, and solves issues relating to environmental, political, traffic, functional, and corruption-related criminal activities in keeping with the laws of the Socialist Republic. It also work with the general public in preventing participation in criminal actions, and perform responsibilities and duties about identification security, public security, transport security, road and highway safety, firefighting, civil defense, disaster preparedness and response, managing theMobile Police Command, and many other duties and missions assigned by the Constitution and the laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Being a component of thePeople's Armed Forces of Vietnam alongside theMilitary and theMilitia, PPS is placed under political leadership of theCommunist Party of Vietnam (via the Public Security Central Party Committee -Đảng ủy Công an Trung ương as the political head) and the executive administration of theMinistry of Public Security (Government of Vietnam).
The PPS's powers are regulated under No. 73/2014/QH13, which was passed on 27 November 2014.[2]
The organisational system of the People's Public Security Forces is composed of theMinistry of Public Security, headed by the Minister.
Subordinate to the Ministry are the municipalities and provinces' Departments of Public Security, headed by the Directors.
As of March 2025, the MPS has dissolved 694 districts, communes, wards, and townships-level Public Security offices/posts.
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| General (Đại tướng) | Colonel general (Thượng tướng) | Lieutenant general (Trung tướng) | Major general (Thiếu tướng) | Senior colonel (Đại tá) | Colonel (Thượng tá) | Lieutenant colonel (Trung tá) | Major (Thiếu tá) | Captain (Đại úy) | Senior lieutenant (Thượng úy) | Lieutenant (Trung úy) | Second lieutenant (Thiếu úy) | University - college cadet (Học viên Đại học - Cao đẳng) | Intermediate - primary student (Học viên Trung cấp - Sơ cấp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Master sergeant (Thượng sĩ) | Sergeant (Trung sĩ) | Corporal (Hạ sĩ) | Constable 1st class (Chiến sĩ bậc 1) | Constable 2nd class (Chiến sĩ bậc 2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain:"Law on people's public security forces, Chapter 1". Vietnam Ministry of Justice. 29 November 2005. Retrieved25 February 2017.
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