PATTAYA: Lt. Gen. Jaruvat Vaisaya, director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Center under the Royal Thai Police, said Thailand had a shortage of officers based outside the capital with expertise in investigating cases of human trafficking.

“We have found an increase in cases in provincial areas where we couldn’t send our staff [from Bangkok] in time,” Jaruvat told Reuters in an interview ahead of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on Thursday.