Chương XIII Luật Thi hành án hình sự 2019: Bảo đảm điều kiện cho hoạt động thi hành án hình sự

Chapter XIII

GUARANTEE OF CONDITIONS FOR EXECUTION OF CRIMINAL JUDGMENTS

Article 170. Payrolls, training and refresher courses provided for criminal judgment execution officers

1. The State shall assure necessary payrolls and personnel for criminal judgment execution management agencies and criminal judgment execution agencies.

2. Persons engaged in criminal judgment execution must be provided with professional training and legal knowledge necessary for their assigned tasks and powers.

Article 171. Guarantee of facilities for criminal judgment execution

Based on requirements of criminal judgment execution, areas of operation and socio-economic conditions, the State shall assure facilities of criminal judgment execution management agencies and criminal judgment execution agencies, including land, offices and other works; equipment, weapons, supporting tools, vehicles, communications and professionally technical equipment and other physical and technical conditions. It shall prioritize assurance of facilities of agencies located in deep-lying, remote and mountainous regions, regions with severely disadvantaged difficulties and areas of strategic importance to national security, social order and safety.

Article 172. Equipping and use of weapons, professionally technical equipment and supporting tools in criminal judgment execution

While executing criminal judgments, officers, non-commissioned officers, professional servicemen and soldiers of the People's Public Security Force and the People's Army shall be equipped with and allowed to use weapons, professionally technical equipment and supporting tools in accordance with law.

Article 173. Database on criminal judgment execution

1. The database on criminal judgment execution managed by the Ministry of Public Security constitutes part of the national database system of crime prevention and combat information and serves the state management of criminal judgment execution.

2. The development, data collection, storage, processing, protection, exploitation and use of the database on criminal judgment execution shall be specified by the Government.

Article 174. Allocation of funds for criminal judgment execution

The State shall allocate funds for criminal judgment execution activities. The estimation, use and settlement of funds for criminal judgment execution activities comply with the Law on the State Budget.

Article 175. Entitlements and policies for agencies, organizations and individuals engaged in criminal judgment execution

1. Officials and public employees; public security workers; defense workers and public employees and other persons performing criminal judgment execution tasks are entitled to entitlements and preferential policies provided for by law.

2. Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the people's public security force; officers, non-commissioned officers, professional servicemen and soldiers of the people's army performing criminal judgment execution tasks may be bestowed with titles or promoted to higher ranks of people's armed forces and enjoy entitlements and preferential policies provided for by law.

3. Agencies, organizations and individuals that record merits in the execution of criminal judgments shall be commended and rewarded. Persons who suffer loss of life, health or property and their families enjoy entitlements and policies provided for by law.