Preventing danger

Drugs have destroyed the lives and futures of many young people from all walks of life, including laborers working in export processing zones and industrial parks. Binh Duong currently has more than 1.2 million immigrant workers who are easy to contact social evils. This is because they live away from their families, so they are easily manipulated by drug dealers while most of them have limited legal knowledge.

Since then, it has led to a part of workers getting into "traps", violating the law and getting social evils like in the past time. In the face of complicated and unpredictable developments of this type of crime, over the past time, the province’s specialized forces for drug crime prevention and control have closely coordinated with local police forces to actively grasp the situation, struggling to prevent drug sources early, from afar; organize the eradication of drug-related crime groups. Thanks to promoting the core role of the police force investigating drug-related crimes at grassroots level, over the past time, the points, venues, locations, and subjects related to drug-related crimes were eradicated.

Recently, provincial Steering Committee for crimes and social evils control and building of the “All people protecting security movement (provincial Steering Committee 138) has issued a plan to open the 2022 peak campaign against drugs in the province. Accordingly, the plan will be implemented from June 1 to June 30, 2022. In addition to the inspection of residence and inspection of business establishments with security and order conditions, the local functional forces will also strengthen the dissemination of current provisions on drug prevention and control, especially the new Law on Drug Prevention and Control and its guidance documents, related ones to drug prevention and control, detoxification and post-detoxification management; the harmful effects of drugs on human health; especially organize direct propaganda sessions in industrial parks, compounds, schools, self-managed lodging facility clubs, residential groups... to propagandize and warn of drug violations more effectively and appropriately.

In addition, trade unions at all levels in the province have taken more specific and timely measures to prevent and protect trade unionists and workers from drugs. They have also set up, maintained and replicated advanced typical models on drug prevention and control to ensure security and order; built communication models on drug prevention and control in industrial parks; strengthened institutions for cultural and sports activities to create healthy playgrounds, helping workers stay away from drugs and social evils... In addition to the above-mentioned forces, let's join hands, contributing to preventing the danger of drugs more effectively, protecting people's health, keeping peace for the society...

Reported by K.Tan-Translated by Kim Tin