The plan aims to strictly implement the directives of the central government, the municipal Party Committee, and the municipal People’s Council on improving the effectiveness of drug prevention and control across all levels of administration and communities. It seeks to raise awareness, responsibility, and coordination in managing and monitoring legal activities involving narcotics in the capital.

The plan also emphasizes strengthening state management, supervision, and inspection of organizations, individuals, and enterprises engaged in the production, storage, sale, transportation, distribution, or use of precursor chemicals, narcotic and psychotropic medicines, aquaculture feed and veterinary drugs containing narcotic substances.

It highlights the importance of prevention, early detection, investigation, and strict handling of violations and individuals exploiting regulatory loopholes to illegally produce or trade narcotics and related substances.

In addition, the plan promotes public education on the law on drug prevention and control, the harms of illegal drug use, and the tactics used by drug-related criminals. It calls for stronger community engagement in drug prevention efforts, the expansion of effective grassroots models, and the active participation of citizens in combating drug-related crime and social evils.

Implementation solutions

To achieve these goals, the plan outlines six major groups of solutions:

1. Leadership and implementation: Ensure effective enforcement of directives issued by the Politburo, National Assembly, Government, and municipal Party Committee, as well as compliance with laws regulating legal activities related to narcotics.

2. Communication and training: Strengthen awareness through mass media, social networks, local radio systems, and community bulletin boards to inform the public about methods and tactics used to exploit legal activities related to narcotics. This will enhance public vigilance and support law enforcement in detecting and investigating drug-related crimes.

Disseminate legal knowledge to organizations and individuals engaged in legal activities involving narcotics, particularly foreign-invested enterprises and industrial manufacturers.

3. Licensing, monitoring, and management: Agencies must strictly follow the 2021 Law on Drug Prevention and Control and relevant regulations when processing license applications, renewals, or revocations for businesses handling precursor chemicals, narcotic and psychotropic substances, aquaculture feed, and veterinary drugs containing narcotic substances.

Departments and sectors must review and compile comprehensive lists of entities involved in such activities to enhance management, supervision, and accountability.

4. Inspection, supervision, and information exchange: Strengthen coordination and information sharing between central and local inter-agency working groups.

Departments and sectors must direct and guide grassroots units to coordinate with relevant agencies in inspecting and reviewing companies and facilities involved in the production, distribution, or use of precursor chemicals and controlled substances. These include medical facilities, pharmacies, veterinary clinics, and small businesses handling aquaculture feed or veterinary products containing narcotic ingredients.

5. International cooperation: Promote coordination and expand international partnerships in drug prevention and control, especially in managing import, export, temporary import for re-export, and transit activities involving precursor chemicals and controlled substances, while strengthening anti-smuggling efforts.

6. Resource allocation and capacity building: Allocate appropriate funding, upgrade equipment, and foster professional exchanges between departments and sectors to enhance the capacity of personnel working in drug prevention and control, particularly in managing legal activities related to narcotics.

The municipal People’s Committee assigned Hanoi Police to strictly comply with regulations on sampling, managing, using, and destroying narcotic substances, precursor chemicals, psychotropic drugs, and addictive medicines for research, examination, and training purposes.

Hanoi Police will also coordinate with relevant departments to conduct awareness and training programs on methods and tactics used by criminals who exploit legal activities to produce or synthesize narcotics.

At the grassroots level, commune and ward People’s Committees are required to strengthen communication using methods suited to local conditions, with special attention to key and high-risk areas.

They must focus outreach on business owners, medical facilities, and pharmacies involved in the handling or distribution of narcotic and psychotropic substances, precursor chemicals, and related products used in animal feed or aquaculture.

The Hanoi People’s Committee requested all departments, sectors, and local authorities to develop detailed implementation plans in accordance with this directive, ensuring close coordination among members of the city’s inter-agency working group on narcotics control and aligning all efforts with local conditions and responsibilities.