May 12, 2009
Bangkok (ASTV Manager Online) – Thai parliament hosted the AIFOCOM meeting in Chiang Rai to solve drugs problem, targeting to make ASEAN drug-free by 2015.
The sixth AIFOCOM, ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization Fact Finding Committee to Combat the Drug Menace, conference has started on May 10 and will run until May 14, 2009.
The meeting is to exchange information in a hope to cope with drugs use and trafficking. The ultimate goal is to get rid of drugs in member countries.
Legal actions will be focused and drug-related money will be confiscated as part of the anti-drug plan.
The role of AIPA will also be promoted, so that ASEAN will become the drug-free region by 2015.
United Kingdom and Thailand are similar in terms of suppression policy and jurisprudence.
Nonetheless, penalties and the enforcement are different in the two countries.
In Thailand, death penalty can be given to a person who carries category-one drugs for the purpose of disposal, according to the Narcotics Act.
Police normally have the right to question, detain, and search the premises or the person.
