Ho Chi Minh City: Temporarily suspend traffic police officers from chasing and kicking violators' cars down onto the road

Regarding the clip of a Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Police officer raising his foot and kicking a motorcyclist down onto the street, a Traffic Police officer was temporarily suspended from work. The incident caused offense, created negative public opinion, and affected the image of the force.

Information from Thanh Nien, on December 15, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department of Traffic Police said that the unit is continuing to verify to handle in accordance with industry regulations and the law, related to the case of a traffic police officer kicking someone. motorcyclist fell on the road.

The traffic police officer involved in the case is Captain Duong Hai of the Ban Co Traffic Police Team (under the Traffic Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police).

Previously, on December 14, a 22-second clip appeared on a number of social networking sites (recording time has not been determined) reflecting the image of traffic police officers using special motorcycles to chase and pedal. fell off a motorbike driven by a young man on February 3 Street near the Hoa Binh Theater area (District 10). Receiving the above information, the Traffic Police Department organized a verification of the case.

According to Vietnamnet, around 12:15 a.m. on December 5, the working group of the Ban Co Traffic Police Team was on patrol and control duty on a number of routes in charge of the unit.

When approaching the intersection of Ba Thang Hai Street - Su Van Hanh Street, District 10, the working group discovered a number of people driving vehicles violating road traffic laws, with the error "not keeping to the right in the direction of travel". me". The working group stopped the vehicles to make a handling record.

While administratively handling a number of people, a member of the working group, Captain Duong Hai, discovered a young man, later clarified his name was TH (30 years old), driving a motorbike. Registration number: 59H1 - 66... commits a violation of "not driving on the right side in the direction of travel" so he signals to stop the vehicle. However, H. did not obey the traffic police's orders, but accelerated and ran away, weaving through many other vehicles toward Cao Thang street.

Captain Duong Hai drove a special motorcycle in pursuit to stop and prevent the violator from continuing to commit dangerous acts to pedestrians.

When catching up, Captain Duong Hai asked the violator to stop, but this person continued to not comply and avoided, continuing to accelerate and turn the car around in the opposite direction. According to PC08 Room, Captain Duong Hai suspected that the driver of the vehicle had signs of a crime, so he tried every way to avoid the control of the authorities and resolutely pursued him.

When chasing in front of Hoa Binh theater, Captain Duong Hai drove close to the violator, who drove onto the sidewalk to continue running away. When the violator drove down the road to continue escaping, Captain Duong Hai approached and used his foot to kick the vehicle. When the violator still intentionally drove the vehicle to escape, Captain Duong Hai continued to step on his foot, causing the person and the vehicle to collide with another vehicle, but not causing injury to that person.

Immediately afterwards, traffic police from the Ban Co Traffic Police Team promptly arrived and assisted in stopping the violators.

Traffic police checked people and vehicles but there were no signs of crime, so they made an administrative violation record against the violator for errors, including not walking on the right side in the direction of travel, not obeying signs. order of the traffic controller, no driver's license, no vehicle registration according to regulations... and impound the vehicle according to regulations.

The Traffic Police Department found that Captain Duong Hai stepping on the vehicle to stop the violator was incorrect, causing offense, creating negative public opinion, affecting the image of the traffic police force and endangering people. involved in traffic, so Captain Duong Hai was temporarily suspended.

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