UK Embassy organise female investigators course
The British Embassy in Bangkok has arranged specialist training for 26 Thai and two Lao female police officers investigating sex offences involving children.
The training, which started on December 11 and will last until tomorrow, is being conducted by the Child Online and Exploitation Programme (CEOP), affiliated to the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). It is being held at the USfunded International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Bangkok and the ILEA is providing administrative support. The principal trainer, Tim Gerrish said: "The CEOP Centre is committed to improving investigations surrounding the sexual abuse of children both nationally and internationally. "We continually share the very latest techniques and best practice with professionals in the field with a view to learning from our experiences and developing methods, which are both effective and realistic for the environment in which they are applied." Gerrish added that shared knowledge and understanding with the Royal Thai Police and representatives from Laos would aim at increasing the number of successful prosecutions against offenders in Thailand and so protect even more children from sexual abuse. CEOP is a member of the Virtual Global Task Force (VGT) and works alongside law enforcement agencies around the world to fight sexual abuse of children online. The Nation
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