Border guards from Vietnam’s  land and sea border
checkpoints are this week taking part in an intensive five-day IOM
training programme designed to improve their ability to detect
counterfeit travel documents. The training programme is similar to
one provided by IOM earlier this year in Cambodia.

The programme, sponsored by the British Embassy, will also
provide Vietnamese border checkpoints with detailed
Vietnamese-language passport examination manuals.

The training will help 30 participating border guards, who
manage Vietnam’s land and sea border check points, but not
airports, to identify suspect travel documents. It will also
facilitate the sharing of information between checkpoints on the
types of document fraud being detected. 

Opening the training, IOM Chief of Mission in Vietnam, Andrew
Bruce, described the document verification programme as “an
important step in the fight by Vietnam against human trafficking,
terrorism and transnational crime.”

Vietnam’s Deputy Commander of Border Guards, Major General
Tran Hoa, welcomed the programme and said that he hoped that it
would lead to the development of further cooperation between IOM
and Vietnam with respect to border guard training.

For more information, please contact:

Andy Bruce

IOM Vietnam

Tel: +844 736 6258

E-mail: "mailto:abruce@iom.int">abruce@iom.int