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Law enforcement officials said that as of 2002, most of the drug was produced by the United Wa State Army in Myanmar. [13] It was smuggled from Myanmar across the porous border into Thailand. In 2014, it was reported that Thailand's northeast provinces have seen a 700% increase in the number of people arrested for meth since 2008, according to ...
Thailand's Psychotropic Substances Act is a law designed to regulate certain mind-altering drugs. According to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, "The Act directly resulted from the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 of which Thailand is a party." The Act divides psychotropic drugs into four Schedules.
Crime in Thailand has been a defining issue in the country for decades, inspiring years of policy and international criticism. [1] Drug use and corruption make up the majority of the crime in Thailand [2] and due to this, many Thai administrations attempted to curtail the drug trade, most notably Thaksin Shinawatra with the 2003 War on Drugs. [3]
Thailand will re-list cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, its prime minister said on Tuesday, in a stunning U-turn just two years after becoming one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise ...
Thailand retains the death penalty, but carries it out only sporadically. Since 1935, Thailand has executed 326 people, 319 by shooting (the latest on 11 December 2002), and 7 by lethal injection (the latest on 18 June 2018). As of March 2018, 510 people are on death row. [2] As of October 2019, 59 are women and 58 are for drug-related crimes.
The Provincial Police thus handled law enforcement activities and in many cases was the principal representative of the central government's authority in much of the country. During the 1960s and early-1970s, as the police assumed an increasing role in counterinsurgency operations, a lack of coordination among security forces operating in the ...
The DSI is often referred to as Thailand's counterpart to the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [2] Since its inception, the DSI has seen conflicts with the police over jurisdiction and authority over cases, and department officials have publicly expressed concern that the department's work has been consistently subject to ...
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