Police chief calls for more action against drugs

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

National police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda

 

National police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda has told regional police bosses to adjust operations and crack down on drug trafficking as he found the operations’ outcome in the past years was still less than satisfactory.

 

He urged police to study suspects’ escape routes.

 

Chakthip on Thursday presided over a two-hour meeting at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok to give policy on anti-drug trafficking to senior police officers from various police units including Provincial Police Region 1-9, Border Patrol Police Command, Immigration Police Bureau, Central Investigation Bureau. 

 

Chakthip told the Provincial Police Region 1-9 chiefs to adjust operation plans, as the drug trafficking had spread all over the country. He also urged police in the North and Northeast, where drugs were smuggled in transit before heading to the Central and Southern regions to try to intercept the drugs and arrest suspects.

 

Pol Lt-General Sommai Kongwisaisuk, the NSB commissioner, is coordinating with neighbouring countries in the crackdown.

 

Chakthip said he was not satisfied with the previous years’ statistics on drug busts although a large amount of drugs and guns had been seized and many suspects arrested. He said police should focus on acting against major drug dealers, whom many of the police drug busts still couldn’t reach because the suspects had well-planned escape routes to evade arrests. “We must study the drug traffickers’ routes and adjust accordingly,” he urged.

 

In the fiscal year 2017, a total of 294,482 suspects were arrested in 275,633 drug cases – which is a 23-per-cent increase from the previous fiscal year’s 241,866 suspects in 224,075 drug cases. The haul seized in fiscal year 2017 was 215,589,578 yaba pills, 5,204.75 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, 411.25 kilograms of heroin, 14,729.98 kilograms of dry marijuana, 45.45 kilograms of cocaine and 129,718.29 kilograms of Kratom leaves.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30336026

 

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He could start with our local police who control the drug supply in our area, possibly even arrest a few of them. 

 

A young lad in our village crossed the border near me and was stopped with a joint, when his family failed to pay the police he got 19 years for trafficking. Yet the approved dealer has no such problems.

Is this a social problem or a law enforcement problem ?   Can this problem be better addressed by offering people better livelihoods and hope as opposed to shoot outs, high speed chases and stake outs ? 

So stop the involment of your boys. 

Perhaps stop harassing innocent tourists/expats with random road pee tests just to try to extort money by scaring them.....

 

...and use the manpower instead on real policing and trying to trace back drug peddlars, starting from a street level and above the food chain ?

 

........maybe it could yield some results ?...at most,  lead to arresting the drug peddlars who do not have "connections" ??

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14 hours ago, mick220675 said:

He could start with our local police who control the drug supply in our area, possibly even arrest a few of them. 

 

A young lad in our village crossed the border near me and was stopped with a joint, when his family failed to pay the police he got 19 years for trafficking. Yet the approved dealer has no such problems.

 

Ridiculous. Nobody even goes to jail for some weed.

 

 

8 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Perhaps stop harassing innocent tourists/expats with random road pee tests just to try to extort money by scaring them.....

 

...and use the manpower instead on real policing and trying to trace back drug peddlars, starting from a street level and above the food chain ?

 

........maybe it could yield some results ?...at most,  lead to arresting the drug peddlars who do not have "connections" ??

 

Results but no money in their pocket = no interest.

 

 

With 70% of the Thai prison population doing time for drug related offenses, seems like Thailand will need new prisons as they incarcerate even more of their population.  There is another way: decriminalize possession and use, and focus time and effort on drug rehabilitations for hard drugs (meth, heroin, cocaine), and spend the money saved to create task-forces to actually go after the source of the hard drugs that do the most damage to society.  Like breweries and distilleries <laughs> (just kidding!).   Meth and heroin processing labs and the cartels behind them.

1 minute ago, dpdp said:

 

Ridiculous. Nobody even goes to jail for some weed.

 

 

You do if you cross a international border with it. Maybe you should try it.

11 hours ago, mick220675 said:

You do if you cross a international border with it. Maybe you should try it.

 

As unlike you I do not speak about what I do not know, I of course tried many times...