As Thailand makes advances in technology, the
criminal element, both home and abroad, also advances in sophistication.
And with the “information super highway” now spanning the globe,
Thailand is beginning to see its first wave of computer crime.
Pairat
Tachiyapong, the National Director of Electric Technology and Computers
of Thailand, attended the Pattaya Police seminar on computer crime.
To help battle this expanding genre of illegal activity, local police
have been seeking out information on how to handle this new breed of
criminals. Last week, Police General Visut Kittiwat presided over a
seminar on computer crime put on by the Pattaya Police department, which
was part of a knowledge exchange program between the police department
of Michigan State University in America and Thai police.
Seminar topics included computer crimes, the beginnings of computer
crime, investigation techniques, organising cases of computer crime, and
their effects on police work. Internet and world wide web crime were
also discussed, as well as ways to protect valuables from this type of
crime.
Professor David Carter, from the Faculty of Law at Michigan State, and
Martin Salis of the UK, an expert on international com-puter crime,
at-tended. Pairat Tachiyapong, the National Director of Electric
Technology and Computers of Thailand, also attended. Al-together 104
people representing upper levels of the police, government enter-prises
and govern-ment officials were on hand to discuss and learn about
computer crime.
The aim of the seminar was to develop law enforcement officials’
knowledge in this arcane area, how to deal with it efficiently, and to
help set guidelines for introducing new laws against tech-nological and
computer crime. There were sug-gestions for setting up special units to
do this.
