Cyber Police Unveil Proactive Plan to Dismantle Online Crime Networks

Cyber Police unveiled a roadmap to overhaul operations, shifting from reactive to proactive mode with the goal of dismantling call‑scam gangs and online criminal networks system‑wide. On 17 October 2589, Lieutenant General Tingkorn Rangmat, Commissioner of the Cyber Police, led officers in the annual Police Day ceremony, which included Buddhist chanting, offerings to monks, and merit‑making for deceased officers. Awards were given to deserving personnel and financial assistance provided to officers affected by floods and to the families of 75 officers who died. The chief then outlined new work directives and policies, emphasizing the Cyber Police’s mission to protect, defend, and uphold the monarchy while ensuring safety and order. He said the force would implement the national police’s four‑priority crime suppression agenda—nominees, online threats, drugs, and corruption—and overhaul its framework to become proactive, aiming to keep the public safe, reduce losses, and make cyber criminal organizations harder to operate through six core missions: knowing threats in advance, understanding networks before acting, deciding based on intelligence, executing swiftly, destroying criminal capabilities system‑wide, and learning as fast as possible. This will be supported by upgrading six capability areas—personnel, data, AI technology, intelligence, legal frameworks, and cooperation networks—to focus on measurable KPIs that stop damage and return seized assets to the public. He added that future cyber crime suppression must move from reacting to cases and chasing suspects to building forward‑looking intelligence that sees threats early, links data to reveal entire criminal networks, uses technology for faster understanding and decision‑making, stops harm at the source, and destroys the overall ability of criminal organizations rather than merely making individual arrests. The commissioner also stressed that personnel will continue to crack down on all forms of cyber crime, including online gambling, illegal firearms, ghost SIMs and mule accounts, personal data trading, weapons, human‑trafficking networks, and networks that lure children into producing obscene images and videos. Prevention efforts will raise public awareness through cyber‑threat warnings on social media, television, radio, and cooperation with mobile carriers to produce alert content. Finally, the initiative will integrate the royal volunteer program with the national police’s cyber‑vaccine policy by assigning volunteer officers to give lectures.