Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Ngoc Lam said that competent police units and agencies as well as in-charge officers had been tasked with reviewing amnesty lists in an open, objective, transparent and responsible manner according to with the laws.
Further, to effectively implementing the work of considering and proposing amnesty for prisoners in compliance with the laws, MPS directed inter-sectoral appraisal teams, Criminal Judgement Execution Agencies of police departments of provinces and centrally-run cities as well as all prisons and detention centers under the ministry to carefully review all profiles of amnesty beneficiary inmates, ensuring that ineligible prisoners would not get into the amnesty list or prisoners eligible for amnesty would be out of the list.
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| Deputy Minister Nguyen Ngoc Lam speaks at the meeting. |
At the meeting, members of the MPS's Steering Committee for Amnesty discussed issues regarding the work of considering and proposing amnesty for prisoners in 2024.
Concluding the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Ngoc Lam requested that the Police Department of Prison, Correctional Institution and Juvenile Reformatory Management should gather all opinions of members of the Steering Committee for Amnesty and carefully prepare documents for the upcoming meeting of the Central Advisory Council on Amnesty.
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| Overview of the meeting. |
The Deputy Minister also asked the police department to closely coordinate with relevant agencies to open a press conference to announce the President’s decisions on amnesty, as well as draw up plans for members of the Central Advisory Council on Amnesty, leaders of MPS to attend amnesty decisions announcement ceremonies in prisons and detention centers.