What weapons and combat gears are traffic police equipped with when patrolling and controlling traffic in Vietnam?

What weapons and combat gears are traffic police equipped with when patrolling and controlling traffic in Vietnam? (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. What weapons and combat gears are traffic police equipped with when patrolling and controlling traffic in Vietnam?

According to Clause 3, Article 13 of Circular 32/2023/TT-BCA, traffic police are equipped with weapons and support tools when patrolling and controlling traffic, including:

Handguns, rifles, submachine guns, stun guns, net guns, rubber bullet guns, tear gas guns, tracer guns, pepper spray, electric batons, body armor, number 8 locks, and traffic command stick.

2. Cases in which gunfire is allowed to ensure the security and order in Vietnam

According to Article 23 of the Law on management and use of weapons, explosives and combat gears 2017, cases in which gunfire is allowed to ensure the security and order are as follows:

- A person carrying out an independent mission shall give warning in acts, verbal orders or warning shot before shooting at the suspect if:

+ The subject is using weapons, explosives, force or other tools for attacking, resisting or threatening lives and health of law enforcement officials or other people;

+ The suspect is using weapons, explosives, force or other tools for disturbing the public order and threatening the lives, health and property of other people;

+ The person who is being sought, arrested or detained in case of emergency or person who is temporarily detained, escorted, sentenced or imprisoned is resisting and threatening the lives and health of law enforcement officials or other people;

The suspect is rescuing people who are subject to coercive delivery or forced escort, imprisoned or detained due to serious crimes, committing very serious crimes, extremely serious crimes or dangerous recidivism;

+ It is clear that the suspect is committing a serious crime, very serious crime or extremely serious crime; and

+ A person carrying out an independent mission is allowed to shoot at a road vehicle or vehicle of inland waterway traffic, except for those of diplomatic missions, foreign consuls, representatives of international organizations, to stop this vehicle if the person driving this vehicle attacks or directly threatens the lives and health of law enforcement officials or other people;

Or it is clear that the vehicle driven by this person is deliberately run away unless there are people or hostages on this vehicle or it is clear that the vehicle carrying crimes, illegal weapons or explosives, reactionary documents, narcotics or national precious objects deliberately run away unless there are people or hostages on this vehicle.

- A person carrying out an independent mission is allowed to shoot at a suspect without warning if:

+ The suspect is using weapons and explosives for directly terrorizing, killing people, taking hostages or is directly using these weapons and explosives for resisting arrest as soon as completing his/her crime.

+ The suspect that produces, trades in, storages, transports or organizes the illegal use of narcotics directly uses weapons or explosives for resisting arrest;

+ The suspect is using weapons or explosives for directly attacking or threatening the safety of the VIP, important works of national security and important targets protected in accordance with regulations of law

+ The suspect is using weapons, explosives or force for directly threatening lives and health of law enforcement officials or other people;

+ The suspect is directly robbing law enforcement officials of their guns; and

+ A person carrying out an independent mission is allowed to shoot at animals directly threatening lives and health of law enforcement officials or other people;

Nguyen Ngoc Que Anh

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