In 2018, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security deployed regular police to communes. Practice has shown that the communal police force has helped stabilize the situation at the grassroots level. This policy is especially meaningful in key border communes with complex security and order issues. To achieve the above results, the regular communal police force has been quietly sticking to the grassroots level day and night, carrying out many aspects of work in the locality.
Application for volunteering to go to the border
In 2021, when the Ministry of Public Security had a policy of increasing the number of officers assigned to border commune police with the aim of "focusing on the grassroots", Captain Khuat Bao Trung (officer of the Legal Department) was one of the first officers to volunteer for the task.
In a conversation with VietNamNet reporters at the end of September 2023, Captain Khuat Bao Trung had only 20 days left to complete his mission in the border commune of Mu Ca. Sharing about his 2 years working with colleagues and people of Mu Ca commune, he said he would always remember this place with beautiful memories.
Captain Khuat Bao Trung said that in September 2021, he and a delegation of officers from the Ministry of Public Security came to take up their duties at Lai Chau Police.
“When I volunteered to go to the border commune, I was determined to wholeheartedly complete the assigned tasks. Born and raised in Hanoi, I am ready to accept any task wherever I am assigned,” Captain Khuat Bao Trung shared.
Captain Trung still remembers the first bus ride from the center of Muong Te district to the commune. “The road from the district police station to the commune along Highway 4H gradually became longer and longer, the further we went, the fewer houses and people there were, and we gradually became lost in the midst of mountains, forests, passes, and rivers. At that moment, my thoughts were a bit overwhelmed by the land where I first set foot on a mission,” Captain Trung recounted.
The Mu Ca Commune Police Headquarters was only a temporary workplace at that time. The captain from Hanoi and his colleagues used B40 steel bars to fence around the workplace to prevent buffaloes and cows from entering. After a few days of renovation, the workplace was ready to serve the people and ensure the tasks.
Mu Ca commune has an area equal to half of Bac Ninh province, the length from the starting point to the end of the commune is about 60km. The area is large, the population is sparse and unevenly distributed, many villages and residential areas do not have electricity or telephone signal, these are difficulties for Captain Trung and his colleagues to grasp the area.
As an officer with 10 years of experience working at the Legal Department - Captain Khuat Bao Trung took up his assignment at the border commune of Mu Ca with the intention of bringing his knowledge and experience working at the Ministry to share with the police force at the grassroots level.
“I am strong in synthesizing document systems, reports and other areas of work such as administrative reform. At one point, I was assigned by the District Police Department leaders to provide advice and support on some issues related to new policies,” Captain Khuat Bao Trung recalled.
In addition to sharing experiences with his colleagues at the base, Captain Khuat Bao Trung also participated in police operations. One time he knocked down a drug buyer in the commune left an impression on him.
“In June 2022, Mu Ca Commune Police took the lead in intercepting and arresting a subject who was buying and transporting drugs. An officer and I directly knocked down and successfully controlled the subject. This is a memory I remember very well, because since I put on my police uniform, I have never participated in such an arrest. The first experiences will always be memorable to me,” Captain Khuat Bao Trung shared.
After two years of being attached to the land and people of Mu Ca, Captain Khuat Bao Trung reflected that the thing he learned the most was mass mobilization work, how to work close to the people, listen to and help the people.
A year ago, Minister of Public Security To Lam awarded a Certificate of Merit to the Mu Ca Commune Police for their achievement in rescuing a child and successfully taking him to a medical facility. Captain Khuat Bao Trung was the driver who directly took the child to the emergency room.
It was late in the evening of July 2022 when Mu Ca Commune Police received a distress call from Mo Su villagers about a boy with severe stomach pain. At this time in Mu Ca, it was the rainy season, with a potential risk of landslides.
Minutes after the distress call, Captain Khuat Bao Trung and a colleague immediately set out and used a car provided by the Ministry of Public Security to take the victim to the emergency room.
“That night, I drove more than 70km through the forest with more than 20 landslides to take the child to the emergency room. Luckily, the trip went smoothly and the doctors intervened and treated the child in time,” Captain Khuat Bao Trung recounted.
For Captain Trung, the memories of returning to the people are countless. Meeting and helping the people helps him learn many things.
“In Mu Ca, every time we mention the cadre Trung going to the village, there will be villages where people will compete over which family will invite the cadre to have dinner with their family,” Captain Trung laughed when talking about the close relationship between him and the villagers in the border area.
Having worked as a commune police officer for 2 years, Captain Trung said he was very happy and proud when his children asked him about his daily work.
“I am always happy to answer my children about my work in the border commune – my father is a commune police officer,” Captain Trung said, sharing that the stories in the border commune are so vivid and engaging that he really wants to share them with his children.
When asked about a souvenir he would bring back when leaving Mu Ca commune, Captain Trung said he would propose to the District Police to ask for a bag for the duty of a commune police officer. On this bag is a line that I really respect: "Commune Police". At the same time, when his job is stable, he will return to Mu Ca to visit and cherish bringing charity programs to the people here.
Police lieutenant has a fate with Mu Ca
In Mu Ca, the story of Senior Lieutenant Sung A Nhia and his wife is mentioned by many people with many predestined relationships when a commune police officer became his son-in-law in Mu Ca. Being a Mong ethnic, born and raised in Ta Tong commune (Muong Te district), Senior Lieutenant Nhia was destined to become the son-in-law of Mu Ca commune and was assigned to a mission right in his wife's hometown.
Senior Lieutenant Sung A Nhia said that he and his wife met in 2015 in Hanoi. During a picnic, he met a girl from Muong Te district and got her phone number to contact. In 2019, Senior Lieutenant Nhia and his wife registered their marriage.
At the end of the year, while working in Ta Tong commune, he was transferred to Mu Ca commune. Although his wife's house was near the commune police headquarters, the area was so large that there were times when he would work for several weeks before returning home to visit his family.
Lieutenant Sung A Nhia's work in Mu Ca faced many difficulties when he was assigned to grasp the area of three residential areas: Lu Kho, Cu Ma Cao and Cu Ma Thap. These three residential areas were the result of the free migration of Mong people from many localities across the country.
To reach the above residential areas, Lieutenant Nhia had to travel 40km, including nearly 20km of dirt road across hills, where a slight mistake could easily lead to an accident.
“I visit the village almost once a week, and during peak times I go 2-3 times a week. Each time I go, it takes 3-4 hours to travel,” said Senior Lieutenant Nhia.
According to Senior Lieutenant Nhia, he himself is Mong, so when he was on duty at 3 residential areas with 100% Mong population, the propaganda and dissemination of laws to the people was effective.
Although his wife's house is near the commune police headquarters, Lieutenant Nhia often has to leave home to take charge of the base. At peak times, he is away from home for a month. So when asked about what he still worries about in Mu Ca, Lieutenant Nhia confided: "I still owe my wife a wedding."
According to Senior Lieutenant Nhia, he registered his marriage during the epidemic so he could not hold the wedding. Then his wife gave birth to a baby, so now he and his wife are planning and choosing a suitable date to hold the wedding.
In 2021, implementing the policy of the Central Public Security Party Committee on strengthening the Border Commune Police in key and complicated areas in terms of security and order, in the first phase, 400 officers working at units under the Ministry of Public Security were transferred to work at the Border Commune Police.
The above policy aims to strengthen direct combat forces, focus on the grassroots, restructure the staff at all levels of the police and build a regular commune police force.
General To Lam - Politburo member, Minister of Public Security at the meeting with officers strengthening the Border Commune Police in October 2021 affirmed that the above policy is not only to strengthen and supplement the force for the Commune Police but also to create conditions for officers to experience, train, challenge, and supplement practical experience.
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