(GLO)- With vivid and visual methods of propaganda, dissemination and legal education, the model of "Mock Trial" jointly implemented by the Youth Union of Pleiku City Police (Gia Lai Province) and the Union of the People's Court and Procuracy of the city has contributed to raising awareness of law observance among all classes of people, especially young people.
On April 22, 2023, the Pleiku City Police Department and the City People's Court-Procuracy Union in coordination with the Pleiku City Youth Union and Le Loi High School organized a mock trial on the crime of "Illegal drug trafficking" attracting more than 620 students to participate.
The defendant at the mock trial was a young drug addict named Hai (born in 1995, residing in Pleiku City). At the end of October 2022, due to needing money to spend and use drugs, Hai contacted a person named Nam (unknown background) in Ho Chi Minh City to buy "American weed" for 2 million VND. After that, Hai brought the "American weed" to his rented room, divided it into many small packages and rolled them into cigarettes. Next, when he learned that a group of bad students often gathered to smoke in front of the school gate near his house, Hai enticed and enticed many students to use drugs. Being enticed, a student named Hoang repeatedly smoked cigarettes containing drugs given by Hai. When he saw that Hoang was dependent on drugs, Hai asked him to sell drugs for him and enticed other students to use them. During one time when he delivered drugs to Hoang to sell, Hai was arrested by the authorities.
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Scene of the mock trial on drug trafficking held at Le Loi High School. Photo: RH |
Although it was a mock trial, the organizing units had made careful preparations with a panel of judges including all members such as: presiding judge, people's assessors, prosecutors, secretaries, defendants, etc. During the questioning and debate at the trial, the panel of judges and prosecutors asked questions of a propaganda and warning nature to the defendants to help the participating students understand the harmful effects and consequences of drugs. Tran Cong Thanh (class 10A7, Le Loi High School) shared: "Through the program, I clearly understood the types of drugs and their harmful effects; how to prevent them when being enticed."
Mr. Huynh Minh Trung - Secretary of the Youth Union of Le Loi High School - said: The whole school has 1,706 students in 3 grades. To raise students' awareness of law compliance, the school regularly coordinates with authorities to organize extracurricular activities to propagate drug prevention and school security. "The mock trial is vivid and intuitive. The trial helps students recognize the harmful effects of drugs and common forms of enticement and enticement related to drugs, thereby contributing to raising awareness of law compliance" - Mr. Trung assessed.
According to statistics, from 2019 to present, the Pleiku City Police Department and the City People's Court-Procuracy Union have organized 9 mock trials with thousands of participants. The mock trials were all conducted in accordance with the provisions of the law; the content and form were suitable for each specific subject, ensuring effectiveness and depth.
Ms. Tran Thi Ngoc Ha - Secretary of the Youth Union of Pleiku City People's Court - informed: The mock trial focuses on violations of the law related to young people and students. In order for the mock trial to be effective, the Organizing Committee previously contacted schools, communes and wards in the city. Then, a plan was developed, specific content was assigned to each unit, from choosing the location, assigning roles to developing the content of the indictment, interrogation script, content of the verdict... "At the mock trial, we narrate a story or present a short play based on a real situation. To attract and improve the knowledge of participants, we also organized questions about the content of the mock trial that we had just watched, and gave gifts to those who answered correctly to the Organizing Committee's answers" - Ms. Ha said.
Lieutenant Thai Quang Son - Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union of Pleiku City Police said: Propaganda activities in the form of mock trials in residential areas and schools are considered necessary in the current period to raise awareness and sense of law compliance for all classes of people, especially teenagers, students, and students, contributing to effectively preventing and combating all kinds of crimes and social evils, building a cultural, healthy and safe city. "In the coming time, we will continue to coordinate with relevant units, schools, communes and wards to organize mock trials to concretize Resolution No. 03 of the Provincial Youth Union Executive Committee "On strengthening the role and responsibility of the Youth Union in preventing and combating crimes and social evils among teenagers" - Lieutenant Son informed.
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