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- Title
Witness Protection Model for the Royal Thai Police.
- Authors
Samroeng Saengtrong; Sunee Kalyajit
- Abstract
The study of "Witness Protection Model for the Royal Thai Police" was to investigate problems and limitations of the witness protection, to explore models and to appropriately design models of the witness protection for the Royal Thai Police. In-depth interviews and Delphi Technique had been used in the research methodology. Results showed that the problems and limitations of the witness protection were no units established to be responsible for them. There are assigning the local polices with loaded works, absence of knowledge, absence of understanding and unskillful because of being untrained for. No units to organize training skills for police, no courses of witness protection in the educational system of the Royal Thai Police. No checking of the witnesses' records, no checking of witnesses' physical and mental health, and no orientation for witnesses before admission. Laggard in line of command and easing interference by the powerful persons. Also poor secret system and IT system for database and witness protection. Its practices were uncharted, unstandardized, and diffused. Remunerations for the witnesses, the authorities and other expenses were low and unmatched to the current high standards of living. The appropriate witness-protection model should be, to a certain extent, independent under the immediate supervision of the Royal Thai Police, and centralized with localized operations in the regions. Operations must be under the authorities from the unit and just coordinated with the local police. Command must be subject to a committee, which charted operations, missions with acceptable measures but in the same direction. It was necessary to establish a training unit, developing IT with certain confidential levels. Organizing orientation to educate witnesses and their conduct, checking their records, their physical and mental health with conditional agreements during the project, should any breeches arise. Recommendations were the Royal Thai Police should establish the witness-protection unit itself in an organizational model with protection procedures as they were found in this research.
- Subjects
THAILAND; PROTECTION of witnesses; POLICE; WITNESS tampering; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; INCOME
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2012, Vol 3/4, Issue 4/1, p33
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article