Three traffic policemen (Traffic Police) who had used batons to beat people were subject to punishment.
The Long An province’s Police Department was quoted by state media on November 2 about disciplinary measures against three traffic policemen who beat people.
Specifically, Lieutenant M. of the Traffic and Order Police Team of the Tan Tru District Police, who directly beat the people will be disciplined and downgraded to lieutenant by one level. Two other traffic policemen in the same crew as Lieutenant M., including one driving Mr. M. chasing the violator, will be disciplined and reprimanded.
On the evening of November 1, the Long An province’s Police said that there will soon be a decision to dismiss the three traffic policemen involved in the beating of people of the police force.
The incident of hitting a traffic participant was recorded in a video clip and on the afternoon of October 31, this video clip spread on the social network Facebook. The image in the clip shows two people wearing traffic police uniforms beating a red motorbike rider with batons. The place of the incident was determined on the road section in Tan Binh commune, Tan Tru district, Long An province.
Some comments to the video clip just mentioned that traffic violations not obeying the law are wrong, however, the measure of traffic police using batons to beat violators is also unacceptable.
The situation of police and traffic police using force against people often occurs in Vietnam. There are cases when the police give unconvincing explanations such as “travelers smashing their faces with the traffic police’s stick” or “policemen just touching their feet and causing the driver’s motorbike to fall.”
Thoibao.de (Translated)
