Abstract

This article examines the current capacity of People’s Police Academy students to identify and counter harmful and malicious information in cyberspace. Drawing on a competency framework comprising cognitive, practical, and technological dimensions, the study identifies existing strengths and clarifies key limitations and their underlying causes. Based on this analysis, it proposes four groups of coordinated measures: strengthening awareness education, developing practical skills, promoting the role of the Youth Union, and providing appropriate digital tools. These measures aim to improve students’ capacity to counter harmful information and contribute to protecting the Communist Party of Vietnam’s ideological foundation in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Keywords: Countering harmful information, cyberspace, harmful and malicious information, identification capacity, People’s Police Academy students.