บทบาทการทำงานของสมาชิกกองอาสารักษาดินแดนกับการแก้ไขปัญหายาเสพติดพื้นที่ชายแดนภาคเหนือ กรณีศึกษาพื้นที่ในอำเภอฝางจังหวัดเชียงใหม่

Abstract

Drugs is a critical problem which many countries confronting including Thailand. It causes various problems in the country whether to commit an offence or be used as a drug hub to third country. However, government sectors such as the narcotic suppression bureau or the territorial defense volunteer still take charge of drug prevention. Cleary, to combat with the drug trafficking, the narcotic suppression bureau and other sections of police is well known as a part of the role. On the one hand, it is considered that the territorial defense volunteer plays a part to encourage this role as well. Therefore, the research will emphasize more about the territorial defense volunteer through 2 objectives. 1) To study the work of territorial defense volunteer in solving drug problems of the border area. 2) To study the problems and obstacle of the work with 3 methods which are documentary research, in depth interviews and participant observation. The target groups for research are chief district officers, assistant chief district officers, territorial defense volunteers, polices, soldiers, sub district headman, village headman and people who had involved in drugs. The results of the study shows that there are 3 roles of the territorial defense volunteer. The first role is to implement the government policies, another is to collab with other government sectors, and the last is to being the one of government representative in the area. Accordingly, it founds that there are some factors to obstruct the work of territorial defense volunteer which are the problem to enable integration between government sectors, the problems of managing the work resources and the bureaucracy system.