New Year roads: 200,000 officers mobilized to stop road carnage

[webfact]

New Year roads: 200,000 officers mobilized to stop road carnage

 

Picture: Thai News Agency

 

The deputy head of the National Police has said that 200,000 officials would be mobilized to provide assistance to the public as the New Year exodus to the countryside begins.

 

The force is made up of 90,000 police and volunteers and members of public protection agencies.

 

Wirachai Songmetta said that 2,000 "help points" would be established after 2,800 roads were targeted for special consideration during the holidays as they represented the greatest risk.

 

He assured the public that officials would be strict in their enforcement of the law with radar guns for speeding motorists and breath test kits for drink drivers at the ready.

 

He said that in the last three years the average daily accident rate at New Year was 490 with 57 deaths and 512 injuries per day.

 

he also said that road repairs would be stopped from the 29th to help with traffic flow.

 

Source: Thai News Agency

 

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[samsensam]

 

if this is true facebook is going to take a hit...

[darksidedog]

It will help if all of them are actually out there enforcing the road laws. It won't help if they are sat around idly, on the side of the road, or sitting in their huts to keep out of the cold.

[colinneil]

200.000 officers mobilized to stop road carnage !! WOW !!

How the hell are they going to do that?

Bit late now trying to educate the masses in how to drive properly.

Edited December 20, 2017 by colinneil

[marko kok prong]

A few road blocks that close around mid day so the Officers too can enjoy the new year is about all we can expect.

[kotsak]

My guess is that these officers will be riding shotgun dictating the drivers on how they should drive, something a decent driving instructor should have done in the first place before those imbeciles got their driving licenses..

[seajae]

can see a lot of christmas bonuses coming up, thats if they do more than just sit in their roadside tents to eat and drink. They make roads close down to a single lane backing up traffic for many miles then just laugh at all the confusion and loss of tempers of the drivers. They then take turns in trying to get tea money, their idea of making the roads safe are a pathetic joke

[300sd]

By doing your job all year, every year, you could help stop this carnage!

 

I am not necessarily speaking of road blocks!

 

Edited December 20, 2017 by 300sd
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[Emster23]

And what do these 200k do the rest of the year? Sit at station chasing Angry Birds?

[Happyman58]

6 hours ago, colinneil said:

200.000 officers mobilized to stop road carnage !! WOW !!

How the hell are they going to do that?

Bit late now trying to educate the masses in how to drive properly.

Col you know the drill here 200,000 cops 199,000 will be sitting in their huts doing nothing getting overtime I have seen cops here watching someone break the law eg. run a red light and they just keep standing or sitting there do nothing  They could put 500,000 cops on the road and nothing will change Just as many  will die  Next case

[Happyman58]

4 hours ago, seajae said:

can see a lot of christmas bonuses coming up, thats if they do more than just sit in their roadside tents to eat and drink. They make roads close down to a single lane backing up traffic for many miles then just laugh at all the confusion and loss of tempers of the drivers. They then take turns in trying to get tea money, their idea of making the roads safe are a pathetic joke

Or another favourite of theirs is change the lights manualy from green to red and let it sit there and get drivers angry and confused  

[Ossy]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The force is made up of 90,000 police

What about the other 140,000 staff, or are they mostly tea ladies? Unless good old Wikipedia is fibbing, the RTP has as many as 230,000 staff on its books.

[quote: The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers, roughly 17 percent of all civil servants (excluding military and the employees of state-owned enterprises).]

[generealty]

Why do I think this is more about money than saving lives ? Maybe I have lived here too long.

[observer90210]

So the death toll is only high on New Year ? ...Well in that case it's New Year all the year around.

[mok199]

im waiting for the photo opp with the big banners and pie chart ....

[watcharacters]

3 minutes ago, mok199 said:

im waiting for the photo opp with the big banners and pie chart ....

 

 

OK,    I want to see the finger pointing..

[wavemanwww]

Let me guess where these cops are heading for! Aside from the fact Thais cannot count! 200k?  Pigs fly too!. Back to my reply. All cops heading to falang tourist spots like phuket, pattaya etc to only fine falangs for "no helmet ,no license" then once tea money paid tourist sent on their way on same bike they rented till next day and cycle begins again!

[quadperfect]

 In phuket it just means Road blocks for farang. Nothing more. Just going to be a lot more of them it sounds like.

Times are tough so lets get those tourists .

777 and now 200,000 .

Whatever its all about making money from tourists. 

 

[digger70]

So Why can they do that now .Where can they get 200,000 people from? If they are really serious they do this 24/7 all year round  in the Whole Country instead of just over the New Year. Lots of talk but not much action .

[Colabamumbai]

My bets are on more deaths this New Years than last.

[bluesofa]

 

5 hours ago, Ossy said:

12 hours ago, webfact said:

The force is made up of 90,000 police

What about the other 140,000 staff, or are they mostly tea ladies? Unless good old Wikipedia is fibbing, the RTP has as many as 230,000 staff on its books.

[quote: The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers, roughly 17 percent of all civil servants (excluding military and the employees of state-owned enterprises).]

There's a misprint there: It should say "the police farce"

[Muggi1968]

They considder it as a christamas bonus..

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[Thian]

17 hours ago, Emster23 said:

And what do these 200k do the rest of the year? Sit at station chasing Angry Birds?

What ever it is that they do, i have NEVER seen them out on patrol and writing fines.

 

Only the Highway-police does that, i've seen that on kanchanaphisek ringroad.

 

The normal cops will sit in tents along the road now, playing on laptops and not even look at the traffic at all. Think they play candycrush like the rest of thailand.

[Humpy]

When they say 'mobilized' do they mean the BIB will be encouraged to sit and play with their mobiles ? !!

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Humpy said:

When they say 'mobilized' do they mean the BIB will be encouraged to sit and play with their mobiles ? !!

Ha ha, yes! I'm sure they need no encouragement.

[Redline]

Useless 

[Ossy]

On ‎20‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:45 AM, webfact said:

New Year roads: 200,000 officers mobilized to stop road carnage

 

 

The deputy head of the National Police has said that 200,000 officials would be mobilized to provide assistance to the public as the New Year exodus to the countryside begins.

The force is made up of 90,000 police and volunteers and members of public protection agencies.

 

he also said that road repairs would be stopped from the 29th to help with traffic flow.

Why can't the Thai govt. top-brass get just a few words together that paint a totally true picture?

First, we have 200,000 OFFICERS; then that encouraging picture has been diluted somewhat, as we're told that the officers have been demoted to 200,000 OFFICIALS. And, just to illustrate how they couldn't really give a shit about reducing road deaths over the NY weekend, he tells us that, of the 200,000 officers originally boasted, only 90,000 will be actual POLICEMEN. Out of a total of between 210,700 and 230,000 officers [ref. Wikipedia], 90,000 officers represents a meagre 41% turnout.

Where will the rest of the invisible, inactive, ineffective and totally unfit for purpose Royal Thai Police Farce be?

Can it be right or fair to the taxpaying public that 59% of the Royal Thai Police force will not be working during this, the busiest and deadliest few days on Thailand's deadly roads?

 

Wouldn't it be good if, during Prayut's Press update next week, one or two reporters have the guts to ask him, (1) why his Police force got it so wrong and (2) why so many deaths could have been prevented by a more results-driven Police department and (3) why he doesn't see fit to replace the current top commanders of the RTP by men who are better energised and motivated to make a change for the better, and (4) is he, Prayut, really bothered?

 

Great news about stopping the road repairs, though.