Immigration Chief Sets Policy: Good People Facilitated, Criminals Blocked
Immigration Bureau chief Police Lieutenant General Nopasit Phunsawat unveiled the 2027 policy, centering on the principle of facilitating legitimate travelers while hindering criminals. The plan outlines four pillars and seven missions aimed at strengthening security, improving services, and combating transnational crime.
Police Lieutenant General Nopasit Phunsawat set the vision for the Immigration Bureau to become a law enforcement organization meeting international standards, ensuring national and public safety. Under four pillars—proactive security, information-led operations, dismantling networks, and international-standard service—the bureau aims to preempt transnational threats while facilitating legitimate travelers and investors with transparency and professionalism. He outlined seven key missions: 1) protect the monarchy and national security; 2) elevate the bureau to a forward-looking defense post, developing pre‑entry screening and all entry‑exit channels using intelligence, biometric verification, databases, and risk assessment to block suspects, wanted persons, and potential threats; 3) conduct proactive investigations to dismantle transnational criminal networks involving foreigners, such as call‑center gangs, cybercrime, human trafficking, money laundering, nominee abuse, and using Thailand as a base for crimes, expanding the net to financiers and supporters; 4) regulate foreigners and close loopholes for illicit gain by improving checks on entry, stay, employment, and conduct to prevent illegal overstay, visa misuse, document fraud, and nominee schemes; 5) drive missions with bureau data and intelligence, developing databases and analytical tools to detect anomalies, assess risks, and target operations accurately; 6) raise service to international standards, balancing security with convenience under the ‘good people facilitated, criminals hindered’ principle; 7) integrate seamless operations and build a professional immigration police force grounded in honesty, transparency, discipline, and accountability. He concluded by urging the bureau to act as a frontline security unit that prevents threats before they occur, screens from the outset, and expands results to dismantle criminal structures.
