DSI Southern Border Provinces Operation Center met with Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center Region 2 to integrate their work in 4 important issues

DSI Southern Border Provinces Operation Center met with Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center Region 2 to integrate their work in 4 important issues

       On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, Mr. Chayapol Saitawee (the Head of Southern Border Provinces Operation Center of the DSI), and his officials welcomed Rear Admiral Surasak Prathanworapanya (the deputy director of Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre Region 2) along with Captain Boonmee Kaewsanga (the deputy director of Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre, Pattani Province), Captain Thitiwatch Phatrakittiwong (the Head of PSCC, Pattani Province), and Captain Thattham Na Songkhla (the deputy director of Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre, Narathiwat Province) to meet and exchange the guidelines and information about the maritime offences for integrating work among law enforcement agencies. The followings were the key issues discussed.

1. The case of 5 vessels with forged certificates of nationality being inspected by related competent authorities at Sri Songkhla dock
2. The case of a merchant vessel with unknown nationality (the ghost ship)
3. The case of a vessel illegally transporting contraband oil both in the gulf of Thailand and the Andaman sea
4. The case of the smuggling to transport evading cigarettes both in the gulf of Thailand and the Andaman sea

       Because the said issues might relate to the offence of human trafficking and other maritime offences, and the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center Region 2 deemed that these issues happened in the area under responsibility of the Southern Border Provinces Operation Center, so the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center Region 2 requested the Southern Border Provinces Operation Center of the DSI to accept the said cases as its special cases.