According to Articles 5, 6, and 7 of Decree 176/2024/ND-CP, individuals or organizations, when providing information reflecting on traffic violations, can be rewarded up to VND5 million ($200) per case. This decree is applied from January 1, 2025.
Although it is a decree of the Government, it is from the proposal of the Ministry of Public Security. The rights of traffic police, Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang all borrowed the hand of the Government to issue documents, to have higher legal value than documents signed by himself.
Notably, before that, from November 15, 2024, the Ministry of Public Security applied Circular 46/2024 of this ministry, to eliminate the right of people to monitor traffic police with audio and video recording devices.
Thus, there may be a situation where the traffic violator is a police officer. In that case, the person who provides the clip of the traffic violation to earn the reward may be caught up in Circular 46/2024. And then, instead of being rewarded, they may be punished.
Obviously, it can be seen that Decree 176/2024/ND-CP of the Government is no different from “a piece of cheese on a mousetrap” that people need to be alert, otherwise they will fall into Luong Tam Quang’s trap.
This is a variation of the law that applies to everyone, “except me.” This model was initiated by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, when he gave himself a special priority. Now, the Ministry of Public Security has expanded it to ensure that the police can legally corrupt.
If people accidentally commit a minor violation, the government will severely punish them. But when committing heinous crimes, police officers are still protected, even protected by law. Yet, the authorities still keep saying “Our state is a state of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
During his lifetime, poet Bui Giang once wrote:
“One hand holds an AK gun
The other hand writes the law, damn the people.”
After so many years, the way this regime manages and operates the country is still the same. The Communist Party still relies on the AK gun in hand, to write laws very arbitrarily. Specifically, for the same violation, the people are denounced, severely punished, but the officials are not affected, because they are protected by the regime.
The National Assembly of this regime is considered a “Party Assembly” or rubber-stamped one because almost 100% are Communist Party members. In which, officials from the central to local levels act as “people’s representatives,” sitting there only to nod in agreement with the Party’s policies. The laws enacted by the legislature are not built from the needs of the people but from the will of the Party. Laws that the people need, such as the law on demonstrations, have been suspended for many years, because they were assigned to the Ministry of Public Security to draft.
In addition, the legal system in this country is in chaos, because sub-law documents are considered more important than the laws and codes themselves. The government and ministers sign countless sub-law documents, such as decisions, decrees, circulars, etc., to administer.
In democratic countries, sub-law documents still exist, usually “executive orders” of the President. However, these documents are the concretization of the law, do not overlap and do not negate the law. The principles of application still strictly follow the hierarchy of legal effects of the legal document system.
With the way laws are made in Vietnam, people will suffer in every way, being trapped by the government for a long time, with no way to prevent it.
If this “cheese on a mousetrap” brings safety to the police force, then why don’t other ministries and agencies replicate this model?
The entire state apparatus is competing to take advantage of the people, and they are very afraid of being discovered and denounced by the people, so they will think of more ways to create sub-law documents to trap the people and protect themselves, like what Luong Tam Quang did.
Hoang Phuc – Thoibao.de
