The recruitments of respondents were undertaken once the TPD Commander provided permission
and access to TP names, a sample of TP officers. The researcher used odd-even selection of TP
officer names. Sixty TP officers were asked to complete written questionnaires and an additional
ten were selected for two focus group sessions. One focus group included five TP officers who had
been in service for more than five years and the second focus group included five officers who had
been in service for less than five years. Other ten officers were observed in action on site at the
Tourist Police stations. Six TP administrators who were taking charge of work relevant to this
research were specifically selected by the Commander. The English speaking tourists who were
contacting with the Tourist Police stations were recruited after the completion of communication
with a TP officer. An extra number of tourists were collected from tourist attractions in Bangkok
over a three month period. There were no other guiding criteria for selection of foreign tourists than
their occasions to communicate with Thai TP and their willingness to be involved in the interviews.
With regard to data collection, three types of research techniques - questionnaire, interview, and
observation- were employed. A set of survey questionnaires about the use of language learning
strategies was completed by sixty TP officers. The source of qualitative data undertaken in this
study were the interviews and the observations. Six individual interviews with the administrators
were conducted to obtain the information about TP‘s problems and of the nature of a desirable
English training program for TP. Two focus group interview sessions each of which consisted of
five TP officers were carried out with the same questions as those enquired the administrators. As
well as eighteen individual interviews with the English speaking foreign tourists were conducted to
explore their perceptions of English competency of Thai Tourist Police. In addition, ten
observations in actual settings were administered using checklists along with brief conversations