Community-based policing in COVID-19: a 4-P’s priorities of Vietnam’s police

COVID Police: Role of Ajman Police During Initial Lockdown

“…Luong ( 2020 ) provided a systematic model for the role of the police during epidemic in Vietnam. This model relies on the need for the police to approach the people to ensure the effectiveness of the proactive role of the police and the transition from protective measures to preventive measures.…”

“…This experience has given a new paradigm for police work that has gone beyond the traditional role of the police to shift police in most parts of the world during lockdown to new roles directed toward the public health goal of preventing infection. To emerge a new concept and term called “COVID-19 Police” (Boon-Kuo et al, 2020 ; Sheptycki, 2020 ), COVID-19 is also creating a set of unexpected and unprecedented challenges for police departments around the world (Luong, 2020 ; Zoha, 2021 ).…”

Community-based policing to control COVID-19 outbreak at communal clusters: A Vietnam perspective

“…When identifying the first case of COVID-19 in the community, which was pertinent to several of Binh Xuyen's workers from China returning home, the Vietnamese leaders established and conducted the "onion layer" model to control the spread of the virus. This model was predicated on the 4-round isolation model, based on the World Health Organization's recommendations and Vietnam's experience during the 2003 SARS outbreak (Luong, 2021;Luong et al, 2020). 1 The use of four isolation rings allowed authorities to avert a deadly circle of quarantining all into one; conversely, each round contributed 1 According to the Ministry of Health, the 4-round model in Vietnam is as follows:…”

“…One is the Son Loi's community transmission cluster, during the first lockdown, and the other is the Truc Bach special circumstances, during the second lockdown. The details of these two cases can be found in our first publications (Luong, 2021;Luong, Jardine, & Thomson, 2020). This study looks to evidence-based policies to answer four main questions arising from the use of CBP to control COVID-19 in Vietnam: 1) Why and how does transparent information help police conduct their strategies?…”

Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

“…The first and most prominent theme relates to police enforcement of pandemic-related laws and regulations (such as lockdown restrictions) and public perceptions of and compliance with this enforcement (see Biswas and Sultana 2020 ; Boon-Kuo et al 2021 ; Farrow 2020 ; Grace 2020 ; Jankovic and Cvetkovic 2020 ; Jiang and Xie 2020 ; Jones 2020 ; Ka-Ki Ho et al 2020 ; Luong 2020 ; Perry and Jonathan-Zamir 2020 ; Reicher and Stott 2020 ; Deckert et al 2021 ; McCarthy et al 2021 ; Mazerolle and Ransley 2021 ; Sargeant et al 2021 ; Scalia 2021 ; Terpstra et al 2021 ; Waseem 2021 ). The second theme concerns the police response to more established crimes and vulnerabilities within the context of the pandemic, such as domestic violence (Nix and Richards 2021 ; Walklate et al 2021 ; Workman et al 2021 ), mental health (Lersch 2020 ), cybercrime (Horgan et al 2021 ) and the production, supply and consumption of illicit drugs (Marks et al 2020 ; Trappen and McLean 2021 ).…”