โอกาสในการกระทำผิดเกี่ยวกับยาเสพติดของเจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจ : ศึกษาเฉพาะกรณียาบ้า / ปัญญา ชะเอมเทศ = Opportunities for police officers to commit narcotic crime : a case study of amphetamine / Police Captain Panya Chaemted
This study aims at examining the factors that promote the opportunities for police officers to commit narcotic crime while performing their duties in Bangkok Metropolis. It is also intended to study various facts relating to amphetamine crime situation from police officers' clear point of view and to those amphetamine crime promoting factors which can be brought to improve the process of police actions in further reducing the opportunities to commit narcotic crime. The data from this research study will help develop strategies for preventing and suppressing efficiently the involvement of other state officers in committing narcotic crime. The population of this study consists of police officers both having direct and not having direct responsibilities in amphetamine cases, polices officers and citizens who were guilty of amphetamine crime and imprisoned in Bangkok Metropolitan prisons, totaling 150 persons. The research methodology used comprises literature review of relevant national and international document and research studies, field investigation employing questionnaires as well as in-dept interviews of key informants. The statistical methods used in data analyses are percentage, standard deviation, Chi square, t-test and f-test. The study finds that the factors effecting the opportunities to commit amphetamine crime are penalty rate for each charge and opportunities to be arrested, prosecuted and sentenced in court as acknowledged by each person, and that the factors having no effect on the opportunities to commit amphetamine crime are duty and responsibility of police officers in each line of command. Therefore, if police officers less acknowledge about the penalty rate, they will have more opportunities to commit amphetamine crime, and the less they acknowledge the opportunities to be arrested, prosecuted and sentenced by law, the more opportunities to commit amphetamine crime they will have. On the contrary, if the opportunities to be arrested, prosecuted and sentenced by law are strongly acknowledged, the opportunities to commit amphetamine crime will be less. As for the duty and responsibility of police officers concerned, either directly involved or not, it is found that the opportunities to commit amphetamine crime are not different. In addition, this study also reveals that the opportunities for police officers to commit amphetamine crime depend upon pervasive acknowledge of penalty in each charge and their past experiences
