Immigration Computer Network Will Soon Cover Entire Country

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Computer network will soon cover entire country says Immigration chief

PATTAYA: -- Computer training for officers from all 53 Immigration offices throughout Thailand was conducted by Pol Col Monthon Ngeonwattana, deputy commander of the Immigration Bureau, at the conference room in Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya on February 16.

The training focused on methods used for checking residence details of foreign visitors via the Immigration Bureau computer network.

Pol Col Monthon said the Immigration Bureau has a continuous program of liaison with its 15 main offices on the use of the IT system, but developments in the digital world are happening quickly.

“It will not be long before Immigration will have coverage throughout the entire kingdom with our computer network,” he said. “Officers will need to know in detail how to use the computers to their full potential.”

Pol Col Ittipol Ittisanronachai, superintendent of Pattaya Immigration Police, said that the Pattaya Immigration Bureau has been instrumental in developing the new policy of using IT and the internet for registering visitors’ residential information, which is a lot faster and more efficient than the previous method of having the information collected by hand from the hotels and guesthouses.

--Pattaya Mail 2006-03-03