What are tasks and powers of the Investigating Security Office of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam?

Specifically, according to Article 16 of the Law on organization of criminal investigation bodies 2015 of Vietnam, tasks and powers of the Investigating Security 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 directly handle denunciations and reports on crimes, and propose the institution of criminal cases, which fall under its jurisdiction or promptly transfer them to competent bodies for settlement.

- To conduct the criminal investigation into particularly serious or complicated crimes involving more than one province or centrally run city or foreigner, which fall under the investigating jurisdiction of the investigating security offices of the provincial-level Public Security Departments defined in Clause 2, Article 17 of this Law if deeming it necessary to directly conduct the investigation; particularly serious cases falling under the investigating jurisdiction of the investigating security offices of the People’s Public Security, 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 investigating and crime-handling activities of the investigating security offices of the provincial-level Public Security Departments; to guide offices of the People’s Security forces of the People’s Public Security, which are tasked to conduct a number of investigating activities, in doing so.

- 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 and proposal on institution of criminal cases and crime investigation and handling within the ambit of tasks and powers of the Investigating Security Office 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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