Extract the camera, request the police to deal with sexual harassment on the bus in Ho Chi Minh City

March 20, 2022 15:12 GMT+7

The Ho Chi Minh City Public Transport Management Center has just proposed to the Criminal Police Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department to take measures to strictly handle sexual harassment on buses.

Before that, many young female passengers on buses on many routes in Ho Chi Minh City reflected on their personal pages about being harassed. This problem attracts the attention of the community.

Recently, the situation of female students being sexually harassed on the bus. (Illustration)

The Center has requested the Criminal Police Department – Ho Chi Minh City Police to assist in investigating and strictly handling the above behavior in accordance with the law. At the same time, the Center will extract the camera at the time of the incident to provide it to the authorities for verification and handling.

In addition, the Center also sent a document to bus businesses, proposing to propagate to each driver and service staff about skills and how to handle when there is an object of sexual harassment and harassment on the bus. bus.

At the same time, thoroughly understand the team of drivers and bus attendants to protect the safety of passengers when being groped and harassed. In case of necessity, to coordinate with passengers, people apply measures to control the object and assign the nearest local police station to handle according to their competence.

Along with that, the Center will research and release a handbook on how to deal with sexual harassment for drivers, service staff, passengers and victims on buses into the professional training program.

Mr. Le Hoan, Deputy Director of the Center for Public Transport Management in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the two sides are coordinating and analyzing what should be done with the act of groping because it will be difficult to handle if the person is groped. Harassment does not bravely denounce the behavior.

“On each bus, there are 3-5 cameras, the data is overwritten for 7 days, but there are some seats entangled or people with bad intentions use furniture to cover it, so it is difficult to catch hands,” Hoan said.

Previously, on social networking groups of students of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City, there were continuously articles reflecting and warning each other about the problem of “groping on the bus”.

These warning posts attract great attention and sharing of the online community. All comments said that the authorities should soon take action to strictly handle the above situation so that female students riding the bus would no longer be afraid.

According to baogiathong.vn