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And I used to collect stamps!????

Isn't that just the Chinese?????

Maybe?????

If "foreigners" weren't in the post it wouldn't be newsworthy?

Right, how many tourists who go to Thailand for a good time carry their passports with them all the time? It would be the last thing on their mind. The cops dont even have a remote fingerprint scanner with them, which would help with this problem? Maybe they are just after money?????

Love the sarcasm.????

Quite so, over the past week there must have been half a dozen reports about Chinese criminals.

Slow day at the office, obviously?

Yes, maybe a Trichologist could help?

I am pretty sure there are reports, maybe in local TV etc, but they dont want to advertise it, they only want to advertise how bad the dirty foreigners are?????

Totally agree, but he is not a foreigner?

Its not just one country!

Both the UK and USA have a completely porous Southern border?????

You would think so, they take your pic every time you enter and leave the country.

Its fair enough they give you 24 hrs to produce your passport. Most tourists going out would only have their passport as ID, not a local DL or ID card. As many have commented taking your original passport out with you if you were going out for a night drinking is a crazy thing to do. If the police raid a venue looking for over-stayers surely they would have a portable fingerprint scanner to check people IDs as other countries have. Having said that if you carry a picture of your passport and visa,on your phone that should suffice.?

Certainly possible knowing Thailand, they started in Feb 2018 , but were supposed to finished in 6 months, I haven't seen any update.

Thailand seems to attract a lot of criminals, like this guy, I wonder why?

It was supposed to happen in 2018, when they started putting in those fingerprint scanners. Now whether is has been done, is anyone's guess

Right, understood, but surely if they are looking for over stayers they would have immigration cops that do have access, they must be able access it remotely. Checking ID by looking at passports is just a lot easier.

Right On! Otherwise why have immigration officers?

When you arrive at the airport, what do think the IO does? He swipes your passport and it brings up all your past history. When you go to immigration for say an extension of stay, what do they do, they pull up your details on their database, it has your photograph, history and probably fingerprints. The average cop may not have access to the database, but obviously immigration cops do? Dont they have some smart BMWs? You are supposed to carry ID cos the cops are lazy.

Right, but when they check the database, it has your picture, so unless you have a twin they would find out?

Quite so. Immigration have a 'secure' database of every foreigner entering and leaving the country, including pictures and fingerprints. Most tourists will be staying in hotels where the hotel must report who is staying to the police. I know some long term folks have condo, houses etc, but they must send a 90 day report in? So the police only have to after the real criminals, those that are on overstay, dealing drugs etc. Presumably these kind of folks dont frequent discos, they keep their head down. Raiding these places full of foreigners on the off chance of catching someone is over the top. They should do some detective work instead, then if they get a tip off that a particular venue has some criminals, fair enough, raid it, but just randomly raiding bars, discos etc doesn't work well and upsets the real tourists.

I think you are correct, but surely if you give them your name, nationality, DOB, obviously telling the truth, they can check the database, this done in other countries, USA, UK etc?

Yes it would hit the headline of every international news outlet, claiming xenophobia at best or even racism. ????