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Five top cops transferred after massage parlour raid

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Five top cops transferred after massage parlour raid

By The Nation

 

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Five top officers of the Wang Thong Lang police station were transferred to inactive posts on Saturday, a day after a raid on a massage parlour in the station’s jurisdiction.

 

Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-General Charnthep Sesawej issued an order to transfer the station’s chief, two deputies and two inspectors after the Department of Special Investigation and troops raided Victoria’s: The Secret Forever massage parlour on Rama IX road on Friday.

 

Most of the 100 workers found on the premises were young, illegal migrants from neighbouring countries who may have been forced to work in the sex trade, the police chief said.

 

The five transferred officers are Wang Thong Lang police chief Pol Colonel Thammanoon Boonruang, his two deputies, Pol Lt-Colonel Naren Krueangsanook and Pol Lt-Colonel Pichai Tooltham, and crime suppression inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Dechasawat Khankasikam and investigation inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Pratya Boonyuen.

 

The order said they would be moved to inactive posts at the Metropolitan Police Bureau until further notice.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30336192

 

 
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48 minutes ago, Cuchulainn said:

Never heard of the words "sack", "dismiss" or "fire"?

 

No, thought not!

Name any western country where a cop can be summarily fired.  Not easy anyplace, usually involving hearings, arbitration and union contracts.  Eventually, they are usually just allowed to resign with all pension benefits undisturbed and not infrequently, back pay.

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3 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

It would be interesting to know just how many top cops / senior cops have been transferred in the last 12 months, at a guess at least 100.

 

A serious indicator of the overall quality of the RTP. 

And a serious indicator that there are efforts to improve - even if slowly.

But who knows what is possible in this system. Better than doing nothing anyway.

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1 minute ago, sweatalot said:

And a serious indicator that there are efforts to improve - even if slowly.

But who knows what is possible in this system. Better than doing nothing anyway.

 

Agree, go back 5, 10, 20 years and it was close to unheard of for senior cops to be transferred.

 

Yes, some slow progress and better than nothing.

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12 hours ago, dddave said:

Name any western country where a cop can be summarily fired.  Not easy anyplace, usually involving hearings, arbitration and union contracts.  Eventually, they are usually just allowed to resign with all pension benefits undisturbed and not infrequently, back pay.

Are they? Even when caught bang to rights? 

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16 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Does that mean the that the massuese will be on top?

 

7 hours ago, HLover said:

The rest of the punters were bottoms.

A "spanking good show" by the Wang Thong Lang police chief in sorting out these unscrupulous officers..whatever next I ask myself :cheesy:

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The "transfered to an inactive post" rubbish is so annoyingly opaque and ambiguous. What does that really mean? Maybe told to stay at home, just hang at HQ in the canteen on full pay whilst being mocked for being caught by fellow officers, come sign in and then bail to the soapy for the afternoon and drink Heineken till it blows over and we'll sneak you back in somewhere so things can carry on as per usual. These officers are complicit to the charges. Such complete and utter BS. 

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So, it was not obvious from the article. I take it the cops transferred were not part of the raid task force, but were in charge of the precinct where the massage shop is, and had not done anything about the situation?
I am not familiar with the area, so could not quite figure who did what and with which and to whom.

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"Maybe in the US. Certainly not in England." 
Yes rkidlad, speaking only of the USA, where it seems cops are permitted to execute persons for crimes such as "driving while black", or black children for playing with plastic toy guns.
The latter case really got me. Maybe the gun was mistaken for real, but do you shoot a child even so?
The verdict is much too often that "the officer acted in accordance with department guidelines". A black man, Eric Garner, 45, was choked to death by a cop on Staten Island on July 17, 2014, for allegedly selling individual cigarettes without a license. Cop was let off without penalty.
Numerous cases of unarmed black men shot to death with little or no consequence to the police officers involved. :sad:

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17 hours ago, Cuchulainn said:

Never heard of the words "sack", "dismiss" or "fire"?

 

No, thought not!

 

step A: let the "Peter principle" sink in first, further steps will follow in a while once the overall thinking continues to improve

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Inactive post? Nah no such post exists. Recently there was a story on here about a cop who was contacted by a gang of criminals who if I recall correctly he said contacted him by accident and tried to scam him out of money. The truth was he was covering his @ss cos they were shaking him down as he was Phukets most notorious bent cop. He used to operate in Patong and got greedy and was moved to an inactive post. Then when the dust settled he reinvented himself in Chalong police station. After another period of time he was moved 3 times to inactive posts the last one being down South. Then he reappeared in Phuket again and now is the chief inspectot of Surat Thani Div 8 that oversees Phuket. Numerous cases filed against him with the PACC disappeared into thin air. 

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17 hours ago, sweatalot said:

Again a move to the better.

But why they are not sacked and taken to court is beyond me.

Still much to improve

to gather enough evidence and proof within 24 hours would be rather quick.
but I agree, as and when there is proof, the appropriate action should be taken.

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