Increasing the Efficiency of Investigations into Criminal Cases by Officers Receiving Complaints and Adjudicating Complaints in Accordance with the Employment Arrangement and Jobseeker Protection Act, B.E. 2528

Abstract

This academic article aims to analyze the measures for seeking evidence in the investigation of complaints and grievance diagnosis officers in collecting evidence of criminal offenders in accordance with the Employment Arrangement and Jobseeker Protection Act, B.E. 2528 by using economic crime concept, differential association theory, techniques of neutralization, financial crime theory, United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime 2000, investigative measures of the United States as the framework for analysis.

Findings are as follows: Measures for investigating facts according to the Employment Arrangement and Jobseeker Protection Act, B.E. 2528 that are currently in force are outdated and therefore not consistent with the current situation. Especially investigating the facts in criminal cases linked to organized crime groups and having methods of hiding electronic evidence which are difficult to inspect and seize as evidence in criminal proceedings. Therefore, specifying the power to call for evidence that is telecommunications system data or computer data or bank accounts and the power to search homes or any places or vehicles in order to obtain evidence related to an offense. It increases the efficiency of officers receiving complaints and adjudicating complaints in seeking evidence to effectively suppress criminal groups that defraud Thai people to work abroad.