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US influence helps nail foreign felons with Thai visa

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The capture of several high-profile transnational suspects in Thailand in recent months owes a debt to a US information-pooling model, the Immigration Police Bureau says.

The new approach to intelligence sharing is helping catch suspects who might previously have gone undetected, it says.

Vital information about key criminal suspects from local and national security offices is combined and shared among crimebusters, including those in other countries when a crime-tracking operation goes global.

Pol Maj Gen Preecha Thimamontri, commander of Immigration Division 2, said the IPB is emulating the Fusion Centers model created by the US government after the 9/11 terror attacks. Each security agency, from local to federal level, pools information for analyzing and predicting threats.

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crimes/287013/us-influence-helps-nail-foreign-felons

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