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Thailand deserves this. They still don't treat tourists with respect and dignity, and allow thugs and criminals to operate in the tourist industry.

Wow! This is huge! If done properly, this will be a huge boost to Thailand. Thailand is famous for being "lawless" and the lawlessness has always attracted a lot of shady characters from overseas. I hope this will change.

One thing that is needed, is to get rid of all the useless police. EVERY police officer in Thailand should be tested with written exams and practical tests, to see who can do their job and who can't. The ones unfit for the job should be kicked out, demoted or sent back to police school.

Is this the way to take Thailand forward to become a first world country and meet the competition from neighboring countries?

On the verge of losing his job? He has to hurry back to the office, so that his punishment will be a transfer to another district. If he is tried as a civilian he will get a real punishment.

On a serious side, these kind of scum should be executed, like China has successfully done.

He does not match the quality tourist on a count of his tatoos.

6 tatoos are allowed but 100 not. The guy is smoking a joint in his house.

none of your business mr. Colonel. Leave the man alone !!!!

Haven't you got anything else to do?

Drugs are not tolerated in Thailand and should never be. If you don't like the drug laws here, then go back to where you came from. The Thais don't want drug advocates here.

He should be banned from Thailand for life, based on his looks only.

Looks McEwans like they have modernized their range a bit, at least the names are more appealing than /80 or /90. I am hoping for classic Scottish ales, with a malty and slightly malty taste,but with less hops though.

Penalties are too soft a and enforcement non-existent. They need to revoke the driving license permanently the third time and jail time.

"Thailand remain safe for traveling, Gen Worapang asserted"

unless you go to koh tao

...or you stroll down Thong Lor and get arrested for no reason.

Why are the criminals who operate in police uniforms allowed to drag Thailand down in the mud and cause irreparable damage to the country? Does the Junta and new government have no control over the police? Can't they see the damage they are doing? How can foreign countries and local Thais believe anything they say, when these things are allowed to happen?

One thing is needed, in the police reform; meritocracy. Each and every policeman should be independently tested physically, psychologically, and examined in terms of knowledge of laws, investigations, police procedures etc. All who flunk (probably more than 50%) should either be dismissed or demoted or suspended pending new a final attempt to retake the exams.

Yes, but people who drink and drive during this period should lose their car and go to jail. It will be the only way to make people learn.

Police state in the making.

A police state run by an honest police is much better than the near anarchy that has been in Thailand the last decades. This high flying guy thinks he is beyond the law or arrest, and hence the shock.

If the police involved are not stopped ASAP, the damage might be huge. The police is part of the government, and if word spreads that the Thai government is subjecting tourists to harassment, blackmail and other crimes, then it is a matter for foreign governments to intervene to protect their citizens. The TAT was talking about building Thailand's brand name as a quality tourist destination. Is this how they do it? Does the junta really accept and allow some local criminals and street thugs in police uniforms to undermine the effort so far? These "policemen" needs to be arrested.

This is a big problem here, many of them carry guns

We have a saying. "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns."

Which is not true. In singapore, where having an illegal gun carries the death penalty, there are no guns among the outlaws either.

Many high ranking Malay "ultras" have always been of the opinion that those three province should be part of Malaysia. They were provinces inhabited by Malays and ruled by Malay sultans, and subsequently occupied by Thailand and later flooded with "infidels" and non-Malays. Based on views like these, and the ever increasing religious and racial sentiments at home in Malaysia, it is highly unlikely that Malaysia will do anything but continue to sabotage the peace process and security efforts. The Malaysian government can't be trusted.

I pray they will use this opportunity to modernize and improve Thailand.

That's how these "businessmen" become rich, by stealing from the public. Now that they are exposed, let them face the consequences and ruin them.

Nopporn can buy his way out easily.

Not from this.

If this is a purge or not, for every crook that is exposed, ruined and jailed, it is great bonus for Thailand.

A good move. Many new moves needed, but it is going in the right direction.

Interpol? Is that known in Thailand?

The main suspect sharing a cell with the other suspect, so that they can rehearse their witness testimonies?

...what is his crime....

...what jurisdiction....

...only him and not the supplier....???

He is a Russian selling dope in Russia, so obviously his case is governed by Russian law. The Thai supplier selling to him in Thailand, has not committed any crimes, as his sales are legal under Thai law.

They also needs to show a zero tolerance on police corruption. All corruption cases should be investigated by units outside the police, and penalties should be severe.