06 tasks and powers of the Investigating Police Office of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam

According to Article 19 of the Law on organization of criminal investigation bodies 2015 of Vietnam, tasks and powers of the Investigating Police Office of the Ministry of Public Security are specified as follows:

- To organize anti-criminal on-duty activities, receive denunciations and reports on crimes and propose the institution of criminal cases; to classify and handle denunciations and reports on crimes and propose the institution of criminal cases, which fall under its settling jurisdiction or immediately transfer them to competent bodies for settlement.

- To conduct investigation into criminal cases falling under the investigating jurisdiction of the investigating police offices of the provincial-level Public Security Departments, regarding particularly serious and complicated crimes occurring in many provinces and centrally run cities or transnational organized crimes, if deeming it necessary to directly conduct the investigation; particularly serious cases falling under the investigating jurisdiction of the investigating police offices, which are abrogated by the Judicial Council of the Supreme People’s Court for re-investigation.

- To guide and direct the investigating operation and examine the law observance and professional operation in receipt and handling of denunciations and reports on crimes, proposing the institution of criminal cases and crime investigation and handling activities of the investigating police offices of the provincial-level Public Security Departments and district-level Public Security Sections; to guide offices of the People’s Police forces, which are tasked to conduct a number of investigating activities in conducting such activities.

- To propose concerned agencies and organizations to apply measures to redress the causes of, and conditions giving rise to, crimes.

- To organize preliminary and final reviews of receipt and handling of denunciations and reports on crimes, proposal on the institution of criminal cases and crime investigation and handling activities falling within the tasks and powers of the investigating police offices of the People’s Public Security.

- To settle complaints and denunciations in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code.

View more details at the Law on organization of criminal investigation bodies 2015 of Vietnam, effective on July 01, 2016.

Ty Na

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