In Directive No. 20/CT-TTg recently issued, the Prime Minister assigned a number of urgent and drastic tasks to prevent and resolve environmental pollution.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Public Security to strengthen the grasp of the situation, regularly review, supplement, and update the list of polluting facilities, areas, and locations of environmental pollution nationwide and direct the inspection, investigation, and strict and thorough handling of crimes and violations of environmental laws.
In the process of fighting and handling crimes and violations of environmental laws, it is necessary to pay attention to expanding the investigation and verification of irresponsible acts, corruption, waste, negativity, taking advantage of, and abusing the position and power of relevant agencies, organizations, individuals, subjects, and acts with the purpose of opposing, complicating the security and order situation to strictly handle them according to the provisions of law.
Direct and guide the commune police to fully and effectively implement their authority to investigate crimes and handle administrative violations of environmental protection (issuing directives and instructions in the third quarter of 2025).
Focus on reviewing, proposing, and recommending amendments and supplements to legal regulations related to environmental protection to improve the effectiveness of prevention, deterrence, and ensure the strictness of the law.
Continue to improve the capacity of the Environmental Crime Prevention and Control Police force in accordance with practical requirements, ensuring comprehensive, effective, efficient and highly effective implementation of laws on environmental protection.
Preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to study and propose the issuance, amendment, and supplementation of policy mechanisms to implement the allocation of funds collected from administrative sanctions for environmental protection violations, environmental career funds, and other sources to increase investment for specialized forces in the fight against crime and violations of environmental laws.
At the same time, reward those who report and provide information about crimes and violations of environmental laws (report proposed in the fourth quarter of 2025).
Strengthen the application of information technology and digital transformation in receiving and handling denunciations and reports of crimes and environmental law violations through the establishment of hotlines, security Zalo accounts, VNeID application; complete the database of crimes and environmental law violations.
Promote the deployment and exploitation of data from security camera systems, surveillance cameras on traffic routes, areas with concentrated waste sources, and environmentally sensitive areas to promptly detect phenomena, incidents, and behaviors that cause environmental pollution and conduct verification, investigation, and handling of violations (planned to be implemented from the third quarter of 2025).
The Prime Minister requested the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy to guide the application of the law in measuring, counting, calculating qualitative factors, determining the consequences and damages caused by criminal acts as a basis for determining crimes and penalties in investigation, prosecution, and trial of environmental cases.
Closely coordinate with the investigation agency in investigating, prosecuting, and trying environmental cases.
