Prime Minister requests to reduce procedures for submitting criminal records

Government leaders requested ministries and branches to review and study options to reduce unreasonable regulations and procedures requiring the submission of criminal records.

According to the administrative procedure reform plan for 2024 issued on January 24, the Prime Minister also requested units to complete plans to simplify regulations related to criminal records. This content will be completed in February and reported to the Prime Minister for consideration.

After the ministries submit plans to reduce procedures requiring submission of criminal records, the Government Office will synthesize and submit them to the Prime Minister for approval in March.

People lined up from 4 a.m. in front of the Hanoi Department of Justice to get their criminal records, April 2023. Photo: Ngoc Thanh

A criminal record is a document proving whether or not an individual has a criminal record. People can go to the Department of Justice to request a certificate or do it online. However, after registering on the National or local Public Service Portal, people still have to send paper documents by post or directly to the competent authority to submit.

Many businesses and organizations have recently abused the requirement of criminal records when recruiting, managing, and employing workers. Some provinces and cities have not promptly resolved the need for confirmation, causing public outrage.

The reason is that ministries and branches have not yet reduced regulations requiring the submission of criminal records and have not applied information technology to issue them online to people.

In mid-2023, the Government assigned the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and Thua Thien Hue province to study a pilot project to issue criminal records on the VNeID application. The Ministry of Justice is drafting a resolution of the National Assembly to pilot the issuance of criminal records at the district level in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nghe An, instead of only the National Center for Criminal Records and the Department of Justice.

Viet Tuan

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