A police officer on a Ministry of Public Security task force has been seized for stealing a motorbike from the parking lot at the ministry’s anti-crime office in Ho Chi Minh City. Tran Xuan Truong, 28, was arrested after he was identified as the culprit of the theft that occurred in the parking lot of the ministry’s Police General Department for Crime Prevention and Control, located in Nguyen Cu Trinh Ward, District 1. Truong, of Tan Uyen District, southern Binh Duong Province, is an official on the ministry’s task force police battalion. According to the case file on September 8, T.D.D., an officer of the ministry’s Protection Police Department, discovered that his Air Blade, which he had parked in the parking lot the day before, was gone. D. reported the theft to the HCMC Police, which then launched an investigation and on September 15 suspected that Truong was the thief. After being questioned, Truong admitted to the crime. Truong told investigators that he unlocked the bike and took it out of the parking lot at 9 pm on September 7 and asked a friend of his to help him sell the bike. However, since the bike could not be sold quickly, Truong took it to his house. On November 8, HCMC Police transferred the case to the police of District 1 to be handled.