Police Commission agrees with calls for decentralization of power

 

BANGKOK, 13 September 2017 (NNT) - The latest meeting of the Police Commission has voiced its support for the decentralization of power to regional command centers. 

Spokesman of the committee in charge of the reform of the police and the justice system Somkit Lertpaithoon said on Wednesday that the Police Commission meeting agreed in principle the decentralization of power from the central command center to those units in charge of each region, an idea raised by the subcommittee on the power and the mission of the police. 

Mr. Somkit said that the decentralization of Thai police will be done in 3 areas including the administrative power to transfer officers, the budget management of each unit, and the internal administration to promote efficiency for public services. 

He added that the meeting has discussed the status of the Board of the Royal Thai Police, which may change after the reform process.

 

-- nnt 2017-09-14

2 hours ago, webfact said:

which may change after the reform process.

Yeah

I cannot imagine the police commision would be in favor of any measure that would increase accountability or reduce cash flow from corrupt activities.  Perhaps the idea is that each regional fiefdom can be run as the local chiefs prefer, not needing to answer to centcom and effectively ruling out the possibility that a group of troublemakers in central command could make life difficult for the boys in the field.  I'd imagine if you want to keep morale high in the rank and file, that would be a popular proposal.

 

They could look at different models adopted by other countries.

 

US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, all have professional police and law enforcement within robust justice systems. And all are different.

 

They could get some good mileage there for plenty of committees and trips!

Just now, Baerboxer said:

 

They could look at different models adopted by other countries.

 

US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, all have professional police and law enforcement within robust justice systems. And all are different.

 

They could get some good mileage there for plenty of committees and trips!

 

 

Good call.

 

Unfortunately, that will never get off the ground as it requires recognition that they could actually learn something from another country....

14 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

Good call.

 

Unfortunately, that will never get off the ground as it requires recognition that they could actually learn something from another country....

 

I'm sure after copious trips, involving private planes, entourages, taking in some nice sporting matches that just happened to be going on, etc etc etc and convening several sub-committees, they'd cheerfully declare that Thailand is already the best and the international standard all the others aspire too!

 

 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

decentralization of power to regional command centers

That would seem to still fall within the chain of command of the national commissioner.

 

True decentralization would be a complete break in the national chain of command with independent la w enforcement commands by Province and amphur (to the extent that can be supported by a taxpayer base). To assure accountability to residents, province and amphur commanders would be elected by residents, subject to voter recall and judicial impeachment. Budgets are taxpayer-based at province and amphur levels for example.

 

The problem with a true decentralized law enforcement structure makes takeover of a country by a military coup much more difficult.