The sports festival and the competition has been participated by 20 teams with nearly 4,000 athletes, who are police officers and enlistees from police departments of the provinces and cities in Region 4, public security schools, the Mobile Police Command and the Security Guard Command.
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| Delegates attend the opening ceremony. |
Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Director of the Department of Party and Political Affairs and Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for the Sports Festival and the Competition Major General Le Hong Hiep underlined that promoting the physical exercise and sports movement as well as training regulations, shooting and martial arts for public security officers is plays an important role in building truly clean, strong, regular, elite and modern Public Security Forces to meet the task requirements in the new situation articulated in Resolution No.12 by the Politburo.
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| Overview of the event. |
The sports festival and the competition aims to not only evaluate public security units and agencies’ the physical exercise and sports movement and training programs on regulations, shooting and martial arts for their officers and enlistees in the past year, but also demonstrate the power of the Public Security Forces and spread the “For National Security” emulation movement, in celebration of the 80th founding anniversary of the Public Security Forces and the 20th anniversary of the “All people protecting national security” Festival.
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| Special performances take place. |
At the opening ceremony, thousands of police officers and enlistees performed motorcycle escorts, qigong, cavalry parade as well as several other tactical performances, which pleased the eye of thousands of local people and visitors.