CHIANG MAI, April 11 (TNA) – Thailand’s Department of
Juvenile Observation and Protection has installed an online visit system at two
juvenile observation facilities in Chiang Mai and Ratchaburi provinces and
plans to expand them nationwide in the future.
Sahakan Petnarin, director-general of the department, held a
media conference on the online visit service. He said it was aimed at well
treating young detainees to return them smoothly to the society.
With the system, parents can use their mobile phones to
connect the observation centers of the department via the Skype for Business
application. The convenient service had raised the numbers of visitors and the
frequencies of visits by three times since their launch in February, Mr Sahakan
said.
To use the services, parents must register with the
observation facilities first and be verified that they were the parents of
young detainees. In each visit, parents can make video calls to their detained
children for 15 minutes. The services were free and satisfied parents, he
added. (TNA)
