On the morning of 12/4, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended the 80th anniversary celebration of the Administrative Management Police for Social Order. Representing Party and State leaders, he awarded the Ho Chi Minh Order to the Administrative Management Police for Social Order and the first-class Fatherland Defense Order to the Department of Administrative Management Police for Social Order (C06), Ministry of Public Security.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung speaking at the ceremony on the morning of 12/4. *Pham Du*

The Prime Minister acknowledged that over the past 80 years, the Administrative Management Police force has achieved many accomplishments and made a significant, strategic mark in the national digital transformation process. Key examples include building the national population database, implementing chip-embedded citizen identity cards, and electronic identification and authentication.

According to the Prime Minister, this force has created a fundamental shift towards digital management, governance, and services, establishing modern management methods based on data, connectivity, sharing, and electronic authentication. This serves as a foundation for reducing procedures, paperwork, time, and costs for people and businesses.

In the new context, the Prime Minister urged the administrative management police force to remain steadfast in its core objective of ensuring security and order, with "development facilitation as the focus, and people and businesses as the service center". C06 needs to lead in transforming the mindset towards modern national governance.

He also directed C06 to focus on removing bottlenecks, completing the legal framework for administrative management, data governance, and digital transformation; and making the effectiveness of serving people and businesses the highest measure.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung presenting the Ho Chi Minh Order to the administrative management police for social order. *Pham Du*

Regarding data, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to ensure it is "accurate, complete, clean, live, unified, and shared". He also called for promoting integration, connectivity, and sharing to form a data ecosystem that serves state management and provides public services for people and businesses.

He stressed the need to continue upgrading the electronic identification and authentication system, developing VNeID into a national platform, a safe and accurate communication channel between the State and people and businesses.

The Prime Minister announced that next week, he would work directly with several ministries, especially the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, and Ministry of Home Affairs, on reforming and reducing administrative procedures and conditional business sectors. He urged ministries and sectors to proactively cut down on procedures and business conditions in April, in line with the Central Committee's conclusions.

Additionally, he directed C06 to continue innovating its mindset and working methods, shifting strongly towards modern national governance; transitioning from an administrative approach to a professional, scientific, data-driven style.

For the administrative management police force, the Prime Minister proposed building a team proficient in professional skills, law, and technology, possessing digital mindset and skills; while also fostering an innovative spirit to meet the demands of working in a modern governance environment.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, Head of the Central Organization Commission Nguyen Duy Ngoc, and Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang presenting the "Uncle Ho Visits His Hometown" statue – a gift from General Secretary and President To Lam to the force. *Pham Du*

Recalling milestones in the 80-year journey of the Administrative Management Police for Social Order, the Prime Minister noted that from the early days of regaining power, on 18/4/1946, the Minister of Interior issued Decree 121, stipulating the duties, powers, and organization of the Vietnam Public Security Department.

Accordingly, the Public Security Department included a Public Order Division. Provincial Public Security Offices had a Public Order Board responsible for maintaining public order, sanitation order, traffic order, document control, issuing identity cards, and household registration management. This was the first legal basis that laid the foundation for the establishment and development of the administrative management police for social order.