NA Standing Committee mulls over mobile police bill

At the meeting, Major General Le Tan Toi, Chairman of the NA Committee for National Defense and Security (CNDS), delivered a report on the drafting of the Law on Mobile Police, saying that the 15^th NA deputies held various discussions on the law project during the second sitting.

Following the directions of the NA Standing Committee, the CNDS conducted surveys and chaired meetings with the drafting board and relevant agencies to revise the draft law.

CNDS Chairman Le Tan Toi said that, based on the opinions of the NA deputies and scientists’ arguments, the CNDS and the drafting board advise the NA Standing Committee to add three more articles (Articles 11, Article 12 and Article 13), remove Article 2 on the interpretation of terms and amend the contents of 21 articles of the draft law.

Speaking at the meeting, Minister of Public Security General To Lam affirmed that, after the meeting, the Ministry of Public Security would closely coordinate with the CNDS to collect more opinions of NA deputies to improve and complete the bill before submitting it to the NA for consideration and approval at the 3^rd sitting.

In a speech at the event, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested the drafting board and relevant agencies to continue examining constitutionality and legitimacy of the draft Law on Mobile Police as well as check its consistency with the current legal system. The NA leader also required further research into the interpretation of terms related to the mobile police force.

“The Law on Mobile Police, if it is adopted, must be specific and clear, highly feasible and practical”, Chairman Hue stressed.