Hanoi Police Chief Confirmed as Chairman of People’s Committee

Major General Chung on the day being elected as Hanoi's leade

Major General Chung on the day being elected as Hanoi’s leade

During his leadership in the past four years, the police forces in the capital city has intensified crackdown against local government critics and activists. A number of peaceful demonstrations against China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea, environmental violations as well as human rights harassments have been violently suppressed.

by Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 04, 2015

Major General Nguyen Duc Chung, head of the police forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, has been elected as the chairman of the municipal People’s Committee for the next five years, state media has reported.

The confirmation was made after the city’s People’s Council conducted a formal voting in its ongoing session on Dec. 4, one month after the city’s police chief was elected as a deputy secretary of the communist party’s Committee.

Chung, 48, who was promoted to head the city’s police forces in September 2012 and major general in July next year.

During his leadership in the past four years, the police forces in the capital city has intensified crackdown against local government critics and activists. A number of peaceful demonstrations against China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea, environmental violations as well as human rights harassments have been violently suppressed.

Chung is among a number of cases in which senior police officers were appointed to hold leading positions in communist committees and government agencies in provinces and central agencies. Last month, Tran Quoc To, former police major general and younger brother of Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang was elected to head the party’s committee in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.

Police forces in the capital city have inhumanely treated land petitioners, and some of them have been imprisoned for street demonstrations which aimed to demand for justice in land grabbing cases.

Last month, two lawyers were brutally attacked in Chuong My district on mid day and the assaulted recognized a local policeman among the attackers.

Hanoi’s police had illogical explanation on the case of 17-year-old Do Dang Du, who died from severe injuries during police’s custody in a local detention facility.

Vietnam will hold general and local elections on May 22 next year to elect representatives for the country’s parliament and People’s Councils in provincial, district and communal levels which will elect state leaders and local key posts for the 2016-2021 term.

The ruling communist party will hold its National Congress in early 2016 in which the party will form the new leadership for the next five years.