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"If every commune and ward has traffic safety; every district and town has traffic safety; every province and city has traffic safety, then the whole country will have traffic safety," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized.
On the morning of September 22, in Bac Ninh City, Bac Ninh Province, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the conference to review 1 year of building a "Traffic Safety Province" jointly organized by the Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committee and the Central Public Security Party Committee.
Also attending the conference were leaders of central ministries, departments, agencies and Bac Ninh province.
The conference was held directly in Bac Ninh City, online with the Public Security of 12 provinces and centrally-run cities: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Vinh Phuc, Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Ninh Binh, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang.
In 2023, implementing the policy of the Central Public Security Party Committee on building a "Traffic Safety Province", the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province urgently advised the Provincial Party Committee to issue a Resolution, and the Provincial People's Committee to issue a Plan on building a "Traffic Safety Province".
After more than 1 year of piloting the construction of "Traffic Safety Province", many outstanding results have been achieved, security and order have been maintained, traffic culture has gradually formed, contributing to promoting sustainable socio-economic development, ensuring safety and happiness of the people.
The entire political system in Bac Ninh province has really taken drastic action; the Party Committee, government, and people have agreed to support and highly appreciated it. Awareness and consciousness of obeying traffic laws have clearly changed, initially forming traffic habits and culture of Bac Ninh people.
Cadres, party members, and teachers have played an exemplary role, taking the lead in building a “Traffic Safety Province,” with a very low rate of violations by party members. In particular, traffic accidents have decreased by 16%, deaths by 20%, and injuries by 19% compared to before.
Along with that, the traffic safety and order of the province has changed positively. Traffic organization has been thoroughly reviewed, black spots and potential traffic accidents have been handled 100%; speed bumps have been installed 100% from alleys to roads. Traffic infrastructure has been strengthened, many key projects have been drastically accelerated and completed; some shortcomings that have existed for many years have been overcome.
Implementing the conversion of the status of the Traffic Police force from manual to technology application. Patrolling and handling of violations increased compared to before implementing the "Traffic Safety Province." 45,401 cases were fined, with a total amount of 103.5 billion VND, an increase of 101% compared to before building the "Traffic Safety Province." There were no vehicles with extended cargo beds in the area.
The above results can confirm that the construction of "Traffic Safety Province" is a correct and timely policy, of great significance to the work of ensuring traffic order and safety in particular and the cause of socio-economic development in the province in general, recognized, supported and highly appreciated by all levels, sectors and people.
One of the important contents to build a "Traffic Safety Province" is to modernize the traffic police force. Therefore, the Bac Ninh Provincial Police Command Information Center was invested.
The center simultaneously operates two camera systems to serve the work of ensuring security and order, ensuring traffic order and safety; fire prevention and fighting, rescue; and fighting and preventing crimes.
The Bac Ninh Provincial Police Command Information Center was developed and mastered by the Global Telecommunications Technology Corporation (Gtel), an enterprise directly serving the defense and security of the Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with the Ministry's professional units and the Bac Ninh Provincial Police, to digitalize the entire professional process of the Provincial Police forces in the digital environment with outstanding features such as: intelligent traffic command system; automatic detection and handling of traffic violations throughout the process based on the AI system; digitalization of patrol and control work; support for the detection, tracing, investigation, and resolution of traffic accidents and security and order; integration and sharing of data connections with units inside and outside the industry.
Speaking at the conference, sharing about the process of selecting Bac Ninh province to build the model of "Traffic Safety Province" and building the Provincial Police Command Information Center, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that from the model built in Bac Ninh province to research, replicate widely, to ensure safety, security and public safety.
“If every commune and ward has traffic safety; every district and town has traffic safety; every province and city has traffic safety, then the whole country will have traffic safety,” the Prime Minister emphasized.
The Prime Minister said that in light of the current situation, the Government has recently submitted to the National Assembly the separation of the Road Traffic Law into the Road Law and the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law. Currently, achievements in science and technology, innovation, and artificial intelligence are being applied in all social activities, including the field of ensuring traffic safety.
According to the Prime Minister, the Party and State pay great attention to ensuring traffic safety and order, with the motto of putting people's lives and safety first and foremost. Over the past years, the Party and State have had many policies and laws on traffic safety.
Among them, many regulations and sanctions have been built and completed; the State has devoted large resources to investing in traffic infrastructure; applied modern technology to traffic management, organized traffic in a systematic, scientific and modern manner; promoted and raised traffic compliance awareness in the whole society; focused on building traffic culture and awareness of traffic safety law compliance. Thanks to that, it has contributed to reducing traffic accidents nationwide.
In 2023, traffic accidents will decrease compared to the same period in 2022 in terms of the number of cases and deaths.
In the first 8 months of 2024, traffic accidents continued to decrease compared to the same period in 2023, traffic congestion was well controlled and decreased by over 65%; the number of traffic accidents caused by drivers violating alcohol concentration regulations during peak periods decreased sharply compared to previous years; violations of vehicle overloading, violations of vehicle wall and cargo extensions were fundamentally handled. Traffic violations are strictly handled, without exception, without prohibited areas.
Praising Bac Ninh province for its outstanding achievements in building a pilot "Traffic Safety Province", the Prime Minister pointed out 6 lessons in ensuring traffic safety: ensuring traffic order and safety must be under the leadership of the Party, the management of the State, and the participation of the entire political system and the people; must take the people as the center, the subject, the resource, and the driving force; with the spirit of "First support, second support", "One call, all responses", "Unanimity from top to bottom", "Consistency across the board"; having a constantly upgraded and modernized traffic infrastructure; traffic management must be smart and modern based on science and technology; education and communication so that awareness of ensuring traffic order and safety permeates every citizen; building pilot models on traffic safety, then drawing experience and gradually expanding.
Emphasizing that traffic safety is happiness for every family, the Prime Minister requested that in the coming time, we continue to strengthen leadership, direction, inspection, and urging the strict implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws on ensuring traffic order and safety. Cadres, Party members, civil servants, and public employees must be exemplary and actively encourage their relatives, families, and people to comply with regulations on ensuring traffic order and safety.
Along with that, continue to perfect the legal system in the direction of clearly defining the responsibility of state management in ensuring traffic order and safety associated with ensuring social order and safety; modernize and build modern traffic infrastructure for all types and modes of road, rail, waterway and air transport; continue to strengthen propaganda, dissemination and legal education to raise awareness, responsibility and skills in ensuring traffic order and safety; improve management capacity; strengthen coordination between ministries, branches, localities and forces in ensuring traffic order and safety.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that after a preliminary review of one year of building the “Traffic Safety Province,” the Ministry of Public Security and Bac Ninh province continue to maintain the model; comprehensively and comprehensively evaluate and perfect the model.
The Ministry of Public Security continues to research and deploy the expansion of the "Traffic Safety Province" model in provinces and cities across the country, so that all provinces and cities across the country are traffic safety provinces and cities, Vietnam becomes a country of traffic safety, a safe destination in terms of security and order, ensuring traffic safety.
VN (according to VNA)
