UK Embassy courses for investigating sex offenders minors

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

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

give the bloody kids enough money and they wont have to sell their bodies..what's so damn difficult about ??

Much more effective than training a buch of do-gooders at vast expense who will go and catch one in a thousand haul 'em to police stations for the obligatory press photos etc etc and everythings back to normal tomorrow...just give every kid enough bloody money to eat and some where to live and a job to go to..how friggin simple does it have to be ??? :geek: :geek:

[TrongpaiExpat]

Isn't is nice that all those former colonial countries took the time to teach the poor ignorant Thai and Lao police how to do their job. It must have taken at least two days to learn all the acronyms: CEOP, SOCA, VGT.

Here's an idea. Since the look-outs see the police coming, and the little boys make a disappearing act, the police should dress up like lady boys and they would not be noticed in Sunee. They can call it Lady boys cops on the watch or LBCW.

[Hmmm]

At least that Thais have noticed which countries have the highest rates of commercial sexual exploitation of children .... India and the United States ....
http://www.tatnews.org/special_interest/1482.asp
http://www.unicef.org/newsline/01pr97.htm

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

especially about the USA ! , although sadly I think they may be underestimated. I see the TAT agrees with me-poverty is one of the main causes.