In Vietnam, is motorcade escorted by police vehicles allowed to go before fire engines?

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• In Vietnam, is it permissible for motorcade escorted by police vehicles to go before fire engines?
• What are regulations on escorting police vehicles in Vietnam?

In Vietnam, is it permissible for motorcade escorted by police vehicles to go before fire engines?

Pursaunt to Clause 1, Article 22 of the Law on Road Traffic in 2008 stipulating priority rights of a number of vehicles in Vietnam as follows: 

1. The following vehicles have the priority right to go before other vehicles when passing intersections from any direction of traffic in the following order:

a/ Fire engines traveling on duty;

b/ Military vehicles and police vehicles on urgent duty; motorcades escorted by police cars;

c/ Ambulances on duty;

d/ Dike-watch vehicles, vehicles employed in overcoming natural disasters or epidemics or in a state of emergency as prescribed by law;

dd/ Funeral vehicle processions.

As regulations above, fire engines has priority to go before vehicles, escorted by military and police vehicles, are driving the Head of State.

What are regulations on escorting police vehicles in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Aritcle 26 of the Decree 18/2022/NĐ-CP stipulating escorting motorcycles and police vehicles in Vietnam as follows: 

1. The vehicle of the Head of State or Head of State who is also the Head of the Governing Party of a guest nation on a state visit or official visit shall be escorted by 9 escorting motorcycles and led by police vehicles.

2. The vehicle of the Head of the Government of a guest nation on an official visit shall be escorted by 7 escorting motorcycles and led by policed vehicles.

3. The vehicle of the Head of the Congress of a guest nation on an official visit shall be escorted by 5 escorting motorcycles and led by police vehicles.

4. The escorting of motorcycles only applies when receiving or seeing off guests at the airport and in official activities in the urban districts of Hanoi Capital and Ho Chi Minh city.

5. Regarding a private visit of the Head of State or Head of State who is also the Head of the Governing Party; a working visit, unannounced visit, or private visit of a Head of the Government or the Head of the Congress of a guest nation, there shall be leading police vehicles in main activities and no escorting motorcycles.

6. Regarding an official visit, working visit, unannounced visit, or private visit of the Deputy Head of State, Deputy Head of State who is also the Head of the Governing Party, Deputy Head of the Government, Deputy Head of the Congress, or Minister of Foreign Affairs of a guest nation, there shall be leading police vehicles in main activities.

7. Regarding an official visit or working visit of the Minister or Head of Agencies of the Congress and equivalences of a guest nation, there shall be leading police vehicles in main activities.

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