Later, the government announced the year 1980 as The Year of Tourism by assigning the Police Department and The Ministry of Interior to take responsibility for supporting comfortableness and maintaining the security for tourists continuously and seriously. The Police Department and The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) then co-operated to improve the Tourist Security Support and Help Center to serve the tourists for various complaints about crime and being taken advantage of by expanding responsibility to the popular provincial tourist places including Chiangmai, Pattaya, Phuket and Had yai. Later in 1982, the government realized the importance of the mentioned specific organization, s it set up the 8th Headquarters under the suppression Division to be the Permanent Tourist Polie organization as per Royal Decree.