On the afternoon of March 5 in Hanoi, the Government Office held a regular Government press conference in February 2025.
At the press conference, Major General Hoang Anh Tuyen - Deputy Chief of Office, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security - said that from March 1, 2025, the Public Security sector will receive 5 more task groups from ministries, branches and the local Public Security organization model reduced from 3 levels to 2 levels (provincial and commune levels).
When the District Police are not organized, the functions and tasks of the District Police are adjusted to be assigned to the Provincial Police and the Commune Police.
According to Major General Hoang Anh Tuyen, until March 5, the new apparatus of the Ministry of Public Security has been operating for 5 days. All activities of the people were not interrupted, basically there were no problems.
In recent days, the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security have sent many inspection and supervision teams to localities to make timely adjustments.
On February 25, 2025, the Minister of Public Security issued a Circular regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organization of the apparatus of the Commune, Ward and Town Police, in which the Commune-level Police have a number of new functions and tasks compared to before, such as:
Advising the Provincial Police Director on ensuring security and order; Assisting the Chairman of the Commune People's Committee in selecting members of the security and order protection team at the grassroots level;
Directly perform the task of managing people serving suspended sentences, people serving non-custodial reform sentences, or residentship bans.
Major General Hoang Anh Tuyen informed that in order to serve the people to carry out administrative procedures most conveniently right from the grassroots level, when not organizing the district-level police, the Ministry of Public Security has stepped up decentralization to the commune-level police; developed documents, organized training, and supplemented means to ensure that the commune-level police can best serve the people according to the provisions of law.
The Ministry of Public Security has issued Instruction No. 08 on decentralization of receiving and handling administrative procedures and online public services when not organizing district-level public security.
Accordingly, the commune-level police are qualified to receive and handle a maximum of 35 online administrative procedures/public services in the fields of: Immigration management (4 procedures); issuance and management of ID cards (16 procedures); electronic identification and authentication (1 procedure); management of investment and business with security and order conditions (3 procedures); registration and management of road motor vehicles (11 procedures).
From March 1, 2025, at the police of qualified communes, people can carry out a number of administrative procedures that were previously under the authority of the district-level police such as: Registration of cars and specialized motorbikes; New issuance, renewal, re-issuance of ID cards to people aged 14 and over and to people under 14 years old; issuance of electronic identification accounts to agencies and organizations; Receipt of applications for issuance, renewal and re-issuance of driving licenses.
To continue to improve the quality and efficiency of providing online administrative procedures/public services at the commune-level police, the Ministry of Public Security is directing relevant professional departments to continue researching and simplifying administrative processes and procedures; perfecting technical infrastructure to better serve people - Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security said.
