The companionship of the people has assisted functional forces in promptly detecting and handling violations, firmly maintaining security and order in border areas.

The Nậm Nhừ Border Post manages and protects nearly 16.9km of the borderline, overseeing 10 villages in Nà Hỳ commune, comprising 1,395 households and 7,697 individuals. The area is home to multiple ethnic groups living together, life remains fraught with difficulties, and access to information is uneven. Therefore, law dissemination work has been deployed flexibly by the unit, tailored to each target group.

Every Saturday morning, a portable speaker follows the unit’s cadres and soldiers to the intra-village roads across the commune. Content regarding drug prevention and combat and the responsibility to protect the border is conveyed in a concise, easy-to-understand manner. Through this, it helps citizens recognize violations, heighten vigilance, and proactively provide information to functional forces.

According to Major Đỗ Xuân Điềm, Political Officer of the Nậm Nhừ Border Post, alongside maintaining the “Border Guard Portable Speaker” model, the unit combines concentrated communication at cultural houses and village heads’ homes with outreach to individual households and residential clusters. Real-life examples are used to help villagers better understand the regulations. Cadres and soldiers guide residents on methods to provide information, denounce crimes, and use the “Anonymous Email Inbox for Crime Denunciation.”

From early 2026 to date, the unit has coordinated the organization of 17 concentrated communication sessions, drawing 1,124 attendees; and 73 small-scale communication sessions with 1,758 attendees. The “Border Guard Portable Speaker” model was deployed in 20 sessions with a total duration of 68 hours. Combining various forms of communication and dissemination helps legal information reach the villagers more swiftly and conveniently.

Sùng A Páo, from Nậm Nhừ 1 village, Nà Hỳ commune, shared: “Being communicated with and explained to by border guard cadres, I understand more about the harms of narcotics and the responsibility to maintain security and order in the village. I remind my children and grandchildren not to listen to enticements and not to participate in trading or transporting drugs. Upon detecting signs of violations, villagers must report them to the village head and the border guards for timely handling.”

In the communes managed by the Thanh Luông Border Post, law dissemination activities are deployed with the active and tight coordination of the entire local political system. The content focuses on border guard laws; drug prevention and combat; border management and protection; and the responsibility of citizens in maintaining security and order.

Lieutenant Colonel Đoàn Thanh Tuấn, Political Officer of the Thanh Luông Border Post, stated that in 2026, the unit organized 18 communication sessions for 1,250 attendees; and deployed the “Border Guard Speaker Sound” model for 24 sessions across 37 villages and hamlets. Through communication, residents elevate their consciousness of law observance, actively coordinate, provide information, and denounce crimes, especially drug-related crimes.

Tying communication and mobilization to grasping the situation, receiving, and verifying information, during the 2026 reporting period, the Thanh Luông Border Post collected and processed 65 information sources, 41 of which were valuable. The unit chaired and coordinated the arrest of 13 cases and special cases involving 15 subjects for the acts of illegally storing and trading narcotics; confiscating 4 cakes and 29.6 grams of heroin, 36,023 synthetic drug pills, 1kg of opium resin, etc.

Typically, on March 17, 2026, the Thanh Luông Border Post chaired and coordinated with forces under the provincial Border Guard Command and the provincial Police to eradicate a retail drug dealing hotspot in Phiêng Ban village, Thanh Nưa commune. Through inspection, functional forces discovered two cases of drug concealment. The incident saw 3 subjects arrested, with confiscated exhibits including 3 grams of heroin alongside other related assets.

Besides the professional measures of functional forces, communicating and mobilizing citizens to heighten vigilance and promptly detect and report signs of violations in residential areas holds significant importance in crime prevention right from the grassroots.

Senior Colonel Phan Văn Hóa, Commander of the provincial Border Guard Command, stated: Executing the directives of the provincial Party Committee and the provincial People’s Committee on strengthening the fight against drug crimes, the units have prioritized communicating and mobilizing citizens to participate in crime prevention and denunciation. Across the 15/15 border communes, the provincial Border Guard organized 512 legal communication sessions, with 21,368 participants. This activity contributes to elevating the consciousness of law observance within the community.

Communication work is deployed in tandem with reviewing and grasping the situation in each area. Through statistics, the border area still has 1,129 drug addicts, concentrated in the communes of Mường Nhé, Nà Bủng, Si Pa Phìn, Na Sang, Thanh Nưa, Thanh Yên, Sam Mứn, Núa Ngam, and Mường Nhà. In addition, there are 359 individuals under post-rehabilitation management. Along the Vietnam - Laos borderline within the province’s territory, acts of commercial fraud, human trafficking, and illegal immigration and emigration remain latently complex, especially in the communes of Mường Nhà, Nà Bủng, Na Cô Sa, and Nậm Kè.

From April 8 to October 23, 2026, the provincial Border Guard chaired and coordinated the detection and arrest of 60 cases involving 69 drug-offending subjects. Confiscated exhibits included 9.55kg of heroin, 87,135 synthetic drug pills, 10kg of opium, 10 grams of ketamine, and 20 ecstasy pills. During the same period, the border guard force chaired the detection and arrest of 1 foreign subject illegally entering the country and 3 cases involving 3 subjects failing to complete immigration procedures when crossing the border; concurrently mobilizing citizens to hand over 17 firearms and 4 homemade gun components.

Continuing to strengthen the fight against various types of crimes, from 21:00 on October 28, 2026, executing the directives of the Border Guard High Command, 100% of units under the provincial Border Guard activated combat-readiness modes, proactively combating drug crimes, human trafficking, and illegal immigration.