More than 800 military officials and professional personnel of the Vietnamese army and police have been sent to the UN peacekeeping operations, such as the missions in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Abyei, as individuals and units. Vietnam now ranks 45th among 120 countries sending military and police officers to UN peacekeeping missions, with the number of personnel regularly deployed to the field missions reaching 274, including 36 females. To be more specific, 27 individual officers, one level-2 field hospital with 63 staff members and one engineering team with 184 people are on missions. Besides, three military and one police officer are working at the UN headquarters, engaging in plan and policy building for UN peacekeeping activities. Established on May 27, 2014, the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations has turned itself into an elite force which has affirmed its professionalism and capacity in the international working environment./.