A proposed police reform bill would grant the Royal Thai Police status equivalent to a ministry.
The new structure is aimed to decentralise administrative power from Bangkok to police officers in the provinces.
The bill seeks to reorganise the national police force's structure into 16 departments such as border patrol police, immigration police, drug suppression, central investigation bureau, metropolitan police and provincial police regions 1-9.
Each department director-general would be under the command of the police chief.
The National Legislative Assembly's (NLA's) committee on law, judicial process and police affairs, led by Admiral Sithawat Wongsuwan, visited the police today to inspect work and talk to the police chief about police reform.
The committee plans to propose a new national police act to the NLA soon.