Hanoi, Oct. 7 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent letters of commendation to competent forces for their successful crackdown on a major transnational drug trafficking operation that smuggled 777.7 kilogrammes of narcotics into Vietnam from abroad.
In the letters, the PM specifically recognised the Department of Drug Control and Crime Prevention under the Ministry of National Defence's Border Guard High Command, and the Drug Crime Investigation Department under the Ministry of Public Security for their outstanding work on the case.
On September 21, the units, working in concert with the border guard commands in Hai Phong city, Ho Chi Minh City, and Ha Tinh province, as well as police of Phu Tho and Dong Nai provinces, arrested 20 su...