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Delegates at the seminar.

The seminar was attended by Senior Colonel To Cao Lanh, Deputy Director of the Criminal Police Department; Mr. Mark Holton, head of the Immigration Office at the UK embassy in Hanoi as well as senior lecturers, experts from the UK Home Department and the People's Police Academy of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security.

Following the 2015 Joint Statement between the Vietnamese and the UK’s governments, on November 21, 2018 in London, the Minister of Public Security of Vietnam and the UK Home Secretary signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on prevention and suppression of trafficking in persons.

Within the framework of the MoU, the Criminal Police Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security in collaboration with the UK Embassy in Vietnam and the People's Police Academy has organized 20 training courses for officers directly in charge of investigating trafficking cases in 40 Vietnamese provinces and cities.

At the event, the delegates exchanged points of view on these training courses, then proposed various solutions to further enhance the effectiveness of these activities, contributing to improving capacity of the relevant forces to fight against human trafficking.

The delegates also spent time researching and contributing ideas to the training curriculum on prevention and fight against human trafficking, which had been drafted by lectures of the People's Police Academy in collaboration with British experts.