What are the responsibilities of The Tourist Police?
The Tourist Police is a Service of the Thai Police Force staffed with specially trained, foreign-language speaking personnel. Within the framework of its duties and functions, we also provide information to Thai and foreign visitors and offer them assistance in settling any issues arising with tourist businesses. We cooperate with local competent Directorates of Tourism, local authorities and VIP (members of the Royal Family) in order to deal with tourism issues, protection and safety. Therefore we work closely with the local police and the emergency department. When there is an accident, we will contact each other for help. And when it’s involving foreigners and there is a language issue, they will always contact us. In some cases, we are also in contact with the embassy. We ensure that the tourist legislation in force is applied in all tourist areas, businesses and media, such as hotels, apartments and rooms to let, tourist shops, tourist agencies and coaches, car and motorcycle rent
