Ministry of Public Security launches "2024 Tree Planting Festival - For a Green Vietnam"

Politburo member and Minister of Public Security General To Lam chaired a ceremony to launch the "Tree Planting Festival - For a Green Vietnam" 2024 movement of the Ministry of Public Security, on the morning of February 19, at the Ninh Binh Provincial Police Department headquarters.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Minister To Lam stated, in response to President Ho Chi Minh's call for a Tree Planting Festival and the Program to plant one billion trees in the period 2021 - 2025 with the message "For a Green Vietnam", the Ministry of Public Security launched the "Tree Planting – 2024 Tet” movement.

Accordingly, all public security units and agencies nationwide are mobilized to enthusiastically participate in planting trees and forests while raising the public awareness of environmental protection and taking effective measures to protect forests as well as effectively combating all types of environmental crimes, deforestation, forest burning, and illegal forest exploitation.

Immediately after the launching ceremony, police units across Ninh Binh province simultaneously started tree planting in an effort to successfully plant 5,000 trees, contributing to creating a green, clean, beautiful environment.

At the launching ceremony, the Ministry of Public Security offered seedlings and fire-fighting equipment as well as medicines against common epidemics to communal police posts, and first aid kits and personal protective equipment to the Ninh Binh Provincial Police Department and three district police stations of Kim Son, Gia Vien, Yen Khanh.

The above police units often participate in environmental protection, forest protection, and biodiversity protection in recent years.