Speaking at the festival, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Duong, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police, said that in the first 6 months of 2024, the socio-economic situation of Ho Chi Minh City has had good growth. Although the demand for transporting goods and passengers continues to increase, leading to increasing pressure on the task of ensuring traffic order and safety (traffic order and safety), however, the traffic order and safety situation is still maintained stably. According to statistics, the number of deaths due to traffic accidents has decreased compared to the same period in 2023.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Duong, there have been 808 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City, killing 223 people and injuring 539 people, compared to the same period in 2023, a decrease of 12 cases, a decrease of 127 deaths (a decrease of 37 people). %). In particular, no railway and inland waterway traffic accidents occurred (compared to the same period, 3 fewer accidents, 2 fewer deaths).
"This result confirms that the solutions to ensure traffic safety that the City has been implementing are correct and effective, closely following the content of Directive No. 10/CT-TTg dated April 19, 2023 of the Prime Minister on Strengthening the work of ensuring road traffic safety in the new situation. Besides, Ho Chi Minh City Police also focuses on building a model ward police in terms of security and urban civilization," Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Duong emphasized.
Also in this phase, Ho Chi Minh City chose District 3 - the central area of Ho Chi Minh City - where there is high traffic density and frequent congestion at intersections, some roads also have encroachments. Roadbeds and sidewalks for business and commerce - as a launching point for the festival program "Volunteers participating in ensuring traffic safety and traffic culture".
Through the program, the Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police also asked union members and young people to promote their role as pioneers and innovators, focusing on propaganda and mobilizing people to strictly comply with regulations on urban order and regulations. New regulations on management and use of roadbeds and sidewalks in the City, ensuring "returning sidewalks to pedestrians and vulnerable people". At the same time, let people and business households sign a commitment to use sidewalks in accordance with regulations, not to trade on the road, and not to use homemade carts or buggies that affect traffic safety.
On this occasion, the Organizing Committee also gave gifts to traffic police officers and soldiers injured while on duty, organized a signing between the Traffic Safety Committees of 12 wards in District 3, and organized a coordination signing between the Youth Union of the Traffic Police Department. Ho Chi Minh City Police and the Traffic and Information Police Team Branch of 21 districts, Thu Duc City.
