Law Enforcement Unit

Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement is responsible for patrolling the park and peripheral impact zones to prevent illegal hunting, buying and trading of wildlife, logging and exploitation of non-timber forest products. The patrolling effort is prior- itised according to biodiversity values and threat levels.

Koumban Law Enforcement Network (KLEN)

The objectives of KLEN are (1) To strengthen the law enforcement system at the village cluster, or Koumban, level in order to more effectively tack-le increasing and emerging threats to wildlife and other biological resources in Nakai-Nam Theun; (2) To facilitate greater participation in, and ownership of, biodiversity conservation in NNT NPA by local authorities.

Mobile Patrol Team

The mobile Patrol Unit focus on anti-trafficking of wildlife and forest resources through the operation of checkpoints and informant network. This team
is also responsible for the control of weapons and movements of residents and outsiders, for the en- forcement of NP regulations in the cluster areas,
and for ensuring effective communication is main-tained between all levels.

Border Military Teams

Units are responsible for control of movement within a 15km strip along the international border and also additional enforcement activities further inside the park.

Forest Ranger Teams

These ranger teams are the most critical line of de-fense against major threats to the area’s wildlife. The teams will focus solely on foot patrols within
the Biodiversity Priority Areas, with the expectation of reducing hunting levels, especially snaring, to negligible levels.

Rapid Response Teams

This ‘stand-by’ team deals with serious wildlife or forest crimes when they are detected anywhere within and around the NP, and also with non-wild-life specific incidents within Biodiversity Priority Areas (e.g. illegal logging).

Prosecution

This team is responsible for taking cases of wildlife or forest crime forward after offenders are apprehended. The objective is to ensure that offenses are properly identified, cases are efficiently processed, offenders are successfully prosecuted, and appropriate deterrent sentences are handed down.

Special Conservation Area Patrol (area nearby reservoir)

Special Conservation Area patrol teams were established to take the lead in two patrol types, including mobile patrols (2 teams) and checkpoints (3 water checkpoints and 1 land checkpoint). The water checkpoints were set up at the mouth of three major rivers frequently used by local people to access to the enclave villages and/or to remoteareas inside the national park

Nakai Nam Theun National Park