According to the Ministry of Public Security's electronic information portal, on the basis of summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security reported to the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee on summarizing Resolution 18-NQ/TW to request the policy on the arrangement of organization, functions, tasks, powers, and apparatus of the Ministry of Public Security, and to study and develop the Project "Arranging and streamlining the local Public Security apparatus to operate effectively and efficiently, meeting the requirements and tasks in the new situation".
After this Project is approved, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security will advise the Government to issue a Decree amending and supplementing Decree No. 01/ND-CP dated August 6, 2018 of the Government stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security.
In Document No. 35/CV-BCDTKNQ18 dated January 23, 2025 on completing the plan to arrange and streamline the organizational apparatus, the Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the Government also requested the Ministry of Public Security (based on the conclusion of the Politburo) to complete the draft Decree stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security;
At the same time, proactively guide the provincial police to implement the Project on reorganizing district-level police and perfecting the functions, tasks and powers of the provincial police according to the direction of the Politburo and the Central Executive Committee (at the Central Conference held on January 23-24, 2025).
Previously, according to Decree No. 01/ND-CP in 2018, the functions, tasks and powers of the Ministry of Public Security remained basically unchanged, but the organization of the Ministry of Public Security was focused, unified and specialized in the direction of "Ministry is refined, province is strong, district is comprehensive, commune is close to the grassroots", as a basis for adjusting, arranging forces and implementing staff streamlining; focusing on investment for direct combat units, focusing on the grassroots.
In which, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security is not organized at the General Department level, the agencies of the Ministry of Public Security are streamlined into Department-level units directly under the Ministry, according to the principle that units with similar functions and tasks, units with unclear tasks and work objects or with closely related functions and tasks that require a coordination mechanism during operation are merged and consolidated, ensuring that one agency or unit can perform many tasks and one task is only assigned to one agency or unit to preside over and take primary responsibility.
Merge 20 provincial and municipal fire prevention and fighting police departments with provincial and municipal police departments and rearrange the organization of provincial and municipal police departments to make them more streamlined.
Streamline and improve the quality and efficiency of public service units in education, training, press, and health in the People's Public Security. Reduce the number of department-level units and district-level police. Build regular commune and town police; initially arrange regular commune police in key areas with complicated security and order issues, and move towards uniform implementation nationwide after completing relevant legal documents.
According to Decree 01/ND-CP in 2018, the organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security includes department-level units. Compared to the old organizational structure, there have been 6 fewer general departments, nearly 60 fewer department-level units, and nearly 300 fewer division-level units.
At the local police, 20 fire prevention and fighting police departments were merged into the provincial and municipal police departments and the organization of the provincial and district police departments was streamlined, reducing more than 500 department-level units and nearly 1,000 team-level units.
