page_title: Royal Thai Police
section_title: Tourist Police Bureau
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Thai Police / Organization / Tourist Police Bureau
caption_attribution_description: English: Logo of the Tourist Police (Thailand).
context_page_description: The Royal Thai Police is the national police force of Thailand. The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers, roughly 17 percent of all civil servants. The RTP is frequently recognized as the fourth armed force of Thailand since their tradition, concept, culture, skill, and training are relatively similar to the army and most of their officer cadets need to graduate from the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School before entering the Police Academy. Officers also undergo paramilitary training similar to the army but with an additional focus on law enforcement.
context_section_description: Tourist police are uniformed personnel who lack police powers and are largely responsible for writing out reports for insurance companies for victims of theft. In more serious cases, they will translate reports to be passed on to the regular police in Bangkok. 
  According to Reuters correspondent, Andrew Marshall, "The country has a special force of Tourist Police, set up specifically so that foreigners have as little contact as possible with the ordinary police—the effect on the crucial tourism industry would be chilling."
  According to one source, in 2017 there were 1,700 enlisted tourist police on the force. As of 2019 the agency has 2,000 officers and 70 tourist police cars for use nationwide.
caption: Thai Tourist Police logo
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