Major General Nguyen Phi Hung, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Public Security’s General Police Department, said the training course makes a new stride in drug prevention and control in each country and across the shared border, thus boosting overall crime fighting co-operation.
Brigadier General Y Set, an officer of Cambodia’s drug prevention and combat national committee, said the course will provide valuable anti-drug information for the country’s law enforcement forces, promoting bilateral coordination in fighting drug crimes. It will also help enhance the nations’ sound neighbourliness, traditional amity, and all-round co-operation.
Despite joint efforts between anti-drug forces of Vietnam and Cambodia, drug crime across their shared border has grown in recent years. Heroin, synthetic drugs and addictive substances are trafficked from Cambodia to Vietnam’s HCM City through small-scale border trade and inland waterways.
Traffickers also use Vietnam as a transit point for drugs to be shipped to other countries. Meanwhile, some international trafficking rings also operate across the Vietnam-Cambodia border.
The training course on drug investigation techniques and strategies is part of a memorandum of understanding signed at the 15th bilateral meeting at the ministerial level on anti-drug co-operation in Ho Chi Minh City in December 2015.
