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DSI develops app for reports on forest encroachment

DSI develops app for reports on forest encroachment

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has developed a new smartphone application for people to report forest encroachment along with details and coordinates of the location, DSI director-general Suwanna Suwannajutha said.

DSI also inked a memorandum of understanding with the Defence Technology Institute for research and development of technology for special investigation, which would span over the next five years. The DSI Bureau of Consumer Protection and Environment Crime has applied open-source geo-information technology to create the app, which also uses the “DSI Map Extend” network to help analyse and investigate encroachment into state-owned land or forests. 
Suwana said that the Cabinet has also recently put five new offences under the DSI’s jurisdiction, namely, violation of the Land Code, the Forestry Law, the Forest Reserve Law, the National Park Law and Wildlife Conservation Law.
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