On the morning of July 1, the Drug Control and Prevention Team of the Hanoi Customs Department announced a significant breakthrough in drug enforcement.

Since the case involving four flight attendants carrying drugs from France to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City Police have expanded their investigation, leading to the prosecution of 318 cases involving 961 defendants.

The General Department of Vietnam Customs seized over more than a tonne of narcotics and detained 148 people in 140 related cases over the first six months of the year.

The Criminal Science Institute under the Ministry of Public Security has recently discovered eight new illicit drugs in Vietnam, all of which are not on the country’s list of banned substances.

Minster of Public Security General To Lam on August 2 asked public security forces to continue their intensive and extensive cooperation with Laos across spheres, especially in the fight against drug crimes.

Hanoi police have busted a drug trafficking ring that was being run out of a hospital.

Major General Nguyen Van Vien, director of the Drug-related Crime Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, talks to the Vietnam Government Portal chinhphu.vn about the drug-related crime situation 

Law enforcement officers in the US have praised the support and professionalism of their Vietnamese counterparts following the arrest in HCM City of a wanted child sex offender.

Minister of Public Security, General To Lam and Director of the Russian National Guard General Victor Zolotov held talks in Hanoi on December 3.