The Ministry of Public Security's electronic information portal said that this agency has just completed the draft Law on Enforcement of Criminal Judgments (amended) consisting of 19 chapters and 192 articles, expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and comments at the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
Compared to the 2019 Criminal Judgment Enforcement Law, the draft Law amends and supplements many new regulations, including regulations on "System for organizing criminal judgment enforcement".
Article 11 of the draft Law stipulates that the criminal enforcement management agency includes: The criminal enforcement management agency under the Ministry of Public Security; The criminal enforcement management agency under the Ministry of National Defense.
The system of criminal enforcement agencies includes: Prisons under the Ministry of Public Security, Prisons under the Ministry of National Defense, Prisons under military regions; Criminal enforcement agencies of provincial and centrally run city police; Military region criminal enforcement agencies and equivalent.
Notably, the agency assigned a number of criminal judgment execution tasks including: detention camps under the Ministry of Public Security, detention camps under the Ministry of Defense, detention camps under the provincial police, military detention camp; Commune People's Committee; Military unit level and equivalent; Police in communes, wards and townships.
In addition, the Minister of Public Security and the Minister of Defense details the organizational structure of the criminal judgment enforcement agency and criminal judgment enforcement agency.
Compared to the Law on Criminal Judgment Execution in 2019, the Draft Law has a number of amendments and supplements to the "criminal judgment enforcement system" to suit the fact that the organizational structure of the police force does not organize the district police.
Previously, according to Joint Circular No. 02/2025 of the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People's Procuracy and the Supreme People's Court effective from March 1, 2025, the Commune Police will directly supervise people serving suspended sentences, people serving non-custodial reform sentences, ban on residence, ban on holding positions, ban on performing certain jobs, and deprivation of certain civil rights;
Commune police manage those whose prison sentences are postponed or temporarily suspended, those who are released from prison before their term with conditions, and control those who serve probationary sentences.
The Commune Police also have the task and authority to prepare records and report to the criminal enforcement agency of the provincial police when detecting a person serving a criminal sentence in the community who violates the law.
In mid-February 2025, the Ministry of Public Security also issued Instruction No. 08 on decentralization of receiving and handling administrative procedures and online public services at the Commune Police when not organizing district-level Police.
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).
