Volunteer disaster prevention force

Volunteers for Civil Defense, commonly known as "OPPOR", are volunteers established under the Civil Defense Act B.E. 2522, published in the Royal Gazette on 22 March 2522. Section 26 of the Act mandates the establishment of volunteer units in every district of Bangkok and every district throughout the Kingdom to assist in civil defense. Accordingly, the Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with provinces, districts, and municipalities, has organized OPPOR training. Initially, only 13,390 persons completed the training, which was insufficient for the tasks and did not cover all areas. Subsequently, training has been organized continuously from 2531 to the present, resulting in a nationwide OPPOR force of 630,844 personnel and 8,790 OPPOR centers (data as of 7 February 2567). The Ministry of Interior aims to have 1 million OPPOR members, or 2 percent of the population in each area, to assist and support government agencies in disaster prevention and mitigation.

Agency:

nakhonratchasima-province

Licence:

Open Data Common

Category:

ข้อมูลสาธารณะ

Geographic coverage:

ไม่มี

Update frequency:

ปี

Years covered:

2024–2024

Source portal:

data_go_th

Updated:

25/07/2026

English title machine-translated from the Thai original

Record updated 53 days ago, within its stated annual cycle

The same record appears 2 more times on: gdcatalog, gdc_nakhonratchasima — counted once here