For the past years, the public security in districts of Northern Bac Giang province have closely worked with local Catholic places for ensuring social order and public safety in localities. 

There have been 126 self-management models for ensuring public order and social security in localities, including “Peaceful Catholic-Concentrated Areas” and “Catholic Parish and Community without crimes, drug addicts and social evils”, etc.

In the year 2017, local Catholics provided nearly 500 pieces of information relating security issues, which helped the local security force successfully investigating over 100 cases of criminal offenses.

To encourage engagement of Catholics in Luc Nam district in the protection of public order and security, the district security has developed working models suiting practical conditions in each area. So far, the security force in the district has maintained four people’s security teams, nine inter-family and self-management teams, etc, in Catholic residential areas. The district security has, in collaboration with local Catholic establishments, developed the self-management model in all Catholic communities in the district.

Captain Nguyễn Nhật Huy, head of the security unit of Luc Nam district informed that the local security force has held regularly meetings with local Catholic deacons and dignitaries for updated understanding of the social life of local people, so they can “develop appropriate schemes to be implemented”, as well as promote Catholics’ role and responsibility for the maintenance of public order in localities.  

Dao Ngan parish in Viet Yen district is a typical example in the movement engaging the participation of all people for ensuring social order and public security. Head of the parish’s management board Mai Huy Lợi shared that, in order to protect the peaceful life, the parish has collaborated with the local security unit in setting up inter-family and self-management teams. He said “There has not been any violation of laws in the village for the last three years” and the friendship and solidarity between the Catholic and non-Catholic in the village has been increasingly developed and strengthened./.

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