Ministry of Public Security holds Running Day

Deputy Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To presided over the ceremony.

The event was organized on the occasion of the 75 years since Uncle Ho gave the Six Teachings to the People's Public Security and the 75th founding anniversary of the force building sector of the Ministry of Public Security (11/3/1948) and the 75th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's appeal for patriotic emulation (June 11, 1948).

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To emphasized that on March 27, 1946, Uncle Ho called on all Vietnamese people to regularly do exercise. Following Uncle Ho's call, the Public Security Central Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security have attached importance to physical training and sport movements in the Public Security Forces, with the aim of improving physical fitness, health, bravery and fighting will for public security officers and soldiers, helping them successfully fulfill their tasks of safeguarding national security, ensuring social order and safety, as well as contributing to building truly clean, strong, regular, elite, modern Public Security Forces. 

Physical training and sports in the Public Security Forces are always organized in a various, rich and practical manner in order to draw the participation of officers and soldiers to physical and sport activities, and at the same time spread physical training and sports to the public. Doing physical exercise and playing sports has become a high need in the life of police officers and soldiers. Through physical training and sports movements, the Ministry of Public Security have also selected talents to train as coaches and athletes for national sports teams.

Right after the Opening Ceremony, nearly 2,500 officers and soldiers from 62 agencies and units under the Ministry of Public Security and Hanoi Municipal Police Department participated in running together around Thien Quang lake, Hai Ba Trung district.