“On the 30th of the Lunar New Year, following visiting and encouraging the people and the armed forces officers and soldiers on duty, the guard returned home at 2-3 o’clock on the first day of the Lunar New Year. At that time, I Just returned to my family.
Being able to stay at home with my parents, wife and children all morning on the first day of Tet and start work at 12 o’clock the same day. Since then, my work schedule has returned to normal,” Lieutenant Colonel Dang The Viet (Deputy Head of the Department for protecting Party and State leaders of the Guard Command, Ministry of Public Security) confided.
With the nature of their work and special mission requirements, celebrating Tet away from home is no longer strange for access protection officers in the Department of Protection of Party and State leaders.
With the mission requirements of ensuring absolute security and safety for security guards 24/24, celebrating Tet away from home is no longer strange for security officers.
There is no concept of Tet holiday, the approaching security officer can only feel the Tet atmosphere through the guard’s more active schedule.
In fact, in the last days of the year, guards will work in many localities across the country to promptly direct and manage work; take care of, visit, and wish people happy new year. Accordingly, the working intensity of the approaching security officer will be higher.
Also on this occasion, some vigilantes returned to their hometown to celebrate Tet with their families. Accordingly, the approaching security officer will also celebrate Tet in the guard subject’s hometown.
Not only differences in regional culture, differences in culinary tastes are also one of the interesting challenges of approaching security officers.
Due to the nature of the task, on holidays as well as weekdays, the job always requires the approaching security officer to be highly focused. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that the approaching security officer does not have much time to be sad or miss home. They happily celebrate Tet “with family” through photos and short phone calls from relatives.
Every time Tet comes, every Vietnamese person turns to their family with the desire to reunite and reunite. However, for security officers approaching Party and State leaders, that seemingly simple wish is difficult to fulfill.
Deeply aware of the glorious task and heavy responsibility that the Party, State and People entrust to them, they are willing to sacrifice personal happiness for the sake of the task.
To date, Colonel Nguyen Quoc Hoan (Deputy Head of the Department of Protection of Party and State leaders) has worked as an access protection officer for 26 years.
“I am very honored and proud to stand in the ranks of a special force, in a special unit and perform special tasks.
Honor always comes with heavy responsibility for an absolutely loyal guard. It is the responsibility of the Party, the industry and the people to ensure the absolute safety of guards in all circumstances, both domestically and when traveling abroad,” Colonel Hoan shared.
To meet mission requirements, access security officers must receive basic training and professional qualifications.
In addition to strict standards on political qualities, ethics, physical strength, and appearance, they must also have full intelligence, bravery, and expertise in martial arts, shooting, and swimming; Have foreign language proficiency and understanding of the foreign policy of the Party and State, culture, customs and traditions of Vietnam as well as of other countries in the world.
On that basis, officers will be flexible and effective in performing their duties; promptly detect threats and propose solutions to absolutely protect the safety of subjects in all situations and comply with diplomatic protocols.
Besides, the approaching security officer must also be meticulous, careful, and thoughtful; sophistication, depth of communication and behavior. This is a soft skill, one of the important factors that helps the security officer to always be trusted by the “Chief” (the informal name of the security officer to the security guard).
With just one look, one small gesture from the guard, the approaching security officer was able to understand the message that the “Chief” wanted to tell him.
Each security guard is in charge of different areas. Therefore, approaching officers must also explore, learn, improve knowledge, and regularly update information, especially in the areas the Head is in charge of, so that they can talk and share with the “Chief”. better serve security work.
According to regulations, access security officers must perform the task of ensuring security and safety for guard subjects 24/7, both domestically and when on business trips abroad.
Therefore, to be proactive in protection work, the approaching officer must firmly grasp the guard’s work schedule.
Before each mission, the approaching officer will directly join the advance team; Identify and predict risks and bad situations that may occur and make security guards unsafe; Proactively advise leaders of the Command and unit commanders, and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to develop protection plans that are close to reality and have the most optimal plan to handle situations. .
At the same time, they also directly participated in accompanying the guard on that business trip.
During the performance of their duties, in addition to ensuring professional work requirements, the security officer’s access absolutely does not hinder or affect the exchanges and friendliness between Party leaders, The State with the people in the country as well as expatriates abroad and the people of the host country.
“When the Head goes on business locally or abroad, especially to areas with complex security and order issues, the approaching security officer is required to maximize their professional capacity, be proactive, and be agile, flexible, and creative while still ensuring proper professional work processes, strictly complying with approved plans and protection plans and the direct direction of the Command’s leaders and directives. The unit commander accompanied the business trip,” Colonel Nguyen Quoc Hoan said.
Always elegant, polite, and dashing to accompany Party and State leaders on local or foreign business trips, but few people know that behind that glory is the silent sacrifice of family and friends. themselves.
With a busy schedule of activities, constant travel to many localities in the country and long business trips abroad for security guards, it is very rare for security officers to have a complete vacation with their families. .
In particular, some access officers also have to perform individual missions. In this case, they will have to work continuously for 365 days. There are no holidays or New Year holidays; There are no compensatory breaks or vacations.
“Due to the nature of the task, the approaching security officer is a close person who understands the personality, working style, and work schedule of the security guard, so in some situations, even if the family has work, the unit will also It is impossible to arrange other access officers to temporarily replace them without the consent of the guard subject,” Colonel Nguyen Van Dong (Head of the Department of Protection of Party and State leaders) shared.
In some cases, with the consent of the guard subject, the security officer can return to his family following completing his duties for the day. However, with the intensity and dense work schedule of the security guard, the security officer approaches the end of a working day and returns home very late. Early the next morning, they take their car out once more. leave home while loved ones are still sleeping.
“A vigilante’s working day usually ends very late, some days until 1-2 am. Then I return home, a 30-minute drive away. Sleep at home for regarding 3-4 hours. Exactly at 6 am I’m at the Prime Minister’s house once more to start a new working day,” Lieutenant Colonel Dang The Viet confided.
There have been many stories that seem to only exist in movies but have happened to the approaching officers and their loved ones.
The security officer who approached Hoang Dai Nghia was repeatedly angered by his biological father because he was always absent during family work and holidays.
There was also a time when he was suspected of having an affair with his own wife because neighbors rarely saw him at home because if he did come home, it was late at night and went to work early the next morning.
Lieutenant Colonel Dang The Viet humorously said that the security guard did not let him into the school to pick up his children because he had never seen his face.
“His daughter once confided that at school, her friends thought her parents were divorced, so she never saw her father pick her up. Then she didn’t want to go out with her mother because when she went to the park, she saw other children with enough parents to take them. “I went out to play, but my family only had my mother,” Mr. Viet sadly shared.
Behind the glorious mission and heavy responsibility lies the effort and silent sacrifice of each approaching security officer. However, they have always received encouragement and trust from the police; sympathy, sharing, and deep understanding from loved ones. That is the motivation, the solid rear for officers to approach and protect the Party and State leaders to always strive, strive, and successfully complete their tasks.
