Ho Chi Minh City police launch campaign to punish drivers using drugs and alcohol while driving

SGGPO 11/24/2023 5:23 PM

On the afternoon of November 24, Ho Chi Minh City Police held a conference to review the work of ensuring traffic safety and order (TTATGT) in the first 11 months of 2023 and deploy a number of key tasks to be implemented from now until the end of 2023.

Conference scene

According to Lieutenant Colonel Tran Trung Hieu, Head of the Traffic Police Department (CSGT), PC08, Ho Chi Minh City Police, since the beginning of 2023, the City Traffic Police have seriously and effectively implemented their tasks and solutions to ensure traffic safety. Thereby, the number of cases, deaths and injuries has been significantly reduced compared to 2022; no particularly serious traffic accidents have occurred.

In addition, PC08 proactively checked routes and areas where gatherings, traffic in groups, public disorder (PDO) and illegal racing often occur or are at risk; advised Ho Chi Minh City Police to establish 5 anti-racing clusters.

Along with that, we focus on monitoring, reviewing, and detecting associations and groups on social networks related to gathering, driving to disrupt traffic, illegal racing, and the operation of "car tuning workshops", establishments buying and selling spare parts for "car tuning"; videos posted promoting images of gathering, high-speed driving, buying and selling spare parts, and information about "car tuning workshops".

In the first 11 months of 2023, the City Traffic Police detected and handled 609,783 violations; detained 1,261 cars, 139,086 motorbikes, 1,242 3-4 wheel vehicles; fined 390,208 cases with a total amount of nearly 700 billion VND; revoked driving licenses in 98,917 cases.

Major General Tran Duc Tai, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police Department

Speaking to SGGP Newspaper, Major General Tran Duc Tai, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police, said that he has requested the entire traffic police force of the city to seriously and effectively carry out tasks and solutions to ensure traffic safety according to the direction of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Public Security. In particular, it is necessary to control accidents, reduce traffic congestion, and absolutely not let especially serious traffic accidents occur.

The Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police informed that in just one week of pilot testing on National Highway 1, the city's traffic police discovered 17 drivers who tested positive for stimulants and 123 drivers with alcohol levels. The situation of drivers using stimulants and alcohol is very complicated and poses a potential risk of causing accidents. On the evening of November 24, Ho Chi Minh City traffic police simultaneously deployed throughout the city and divided into 5 clusters in the inner city and 5 clusters in the suburbs to "tighten" alcohol and drivers using stimulants.

“Ho Chi Minh City Police will maintain and resolutely handle traffic safety violations, especially those involving people using stimulants or alcohol while participating in traffic; and those carrying oversized or overloaded loads that disrupt traffic safety on public transport routes,” Major General Tran Duc Tai emphasized.

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/cong-an-tphcm-ra-quan-xu-ly-tai-xe-su-dung-ma-tuy-bia-ruou-khi-lai-xe-post715594.html