Video: Tourist Police make their intentions clear - we are going after illegal tourists committing crime in Thailand

[Bangkokazy]

Tourist Police needs to fill up the tea cash box for Songkran, and that's why it's out and does its job

[Bangkokazy]

It is enough as usual Russians and they live now at Pattaya Park, should not be hard to find them there along with the rest of the trailer trash.

[car720]

I wonder if they will look at the literary crime committed here every day.

[wombat]

 ''while some were Catholic priests''.....thats <deleted>.

[SpeakeasyThai]

Aren't Tourist Police supposed to be the friendly authoritive  face of Thailand for Tourists if they have an unfortunate experience on holiday. ... ...helpful and supposedly there to assist?

More like a specialist SWAT squad to single out foreigners and go after them!

[stanleycoin]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Here's an idea. Have a crackdown on teachers with fake documents no matter what colour there skin is. Working with fake docs. is a criminal offence after all.

Should have a crack down on Thai's impersonating teachers. 

 

[natway09]

Sorry to burst your bubble Sir,

but this should be the aim of every law enforcement officer in the world

[dorchester]

they track them down thru the call centers,how ingenious ,following your nose or the flies would produce the same results

[Coruption]

First they should lock up all the corrupt police then you can go after criminals

[Dogmatix]

Well, if they are criminals they deserve to be prosecuted, punished and deported.  All of the things they have been doing are jobs that can be done by Thais.

 

It is just a bit disturbing that they are only going after black and brown foreign criminals.  There are plenty of white and yellow foreign criminals operating in the Kingdom who also deserve their attention, not to mention the vast number of Thai criminals in and out of uniform.  

[timendres]

A Thai version of "The Untouchables"! Sweet.

[SunsetT]

So you wont goafter legal tourists committing crimes?

[connda]

If they are busting call centers, then good for them. 

[anon789561]

3 minutes ago, connda said:

If they are busting call centers, then good for them. 

which call centres? the chinese/taiwanese ones whilst still harboring the scum that run boiler rooms from here?

[0815]

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Those dastardly religious men, undermining the security of the country.

Were they praying without a work permit?

 

If they would just be praying...

[pokerface1]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

"foreigners have behavior that is affecting the stability of the country" that "starts with illegal entry and illegal stay in the Kingdom".

These are throw away lines when no example of how the stability of the country has been effected. 

[RichardColeman]

Wonder how many times the have arrested the same Nigerian who keeps returning with a new name and a new profession ! 

[kannot]

8 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Whatever it is they’re doing doesn’t really matter. First and foremost they must get attention and pictures of themselves in the news. Everything else comes a distant second. 

u mean  a  distant  last  i  think?

[Get Real]

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Those dastardly religious men, undermining the security of the country.

Were they praying without a work permit?

 

You are a fine example over a character that just do not se reality. No, they were not praying without a WP. They are doing far more illegal things.
Also I must ask you the question. Do you prefer having high foreign criminality in Thailand or not?

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Here's an idea. Have a crackdown on teachers with fake documents no matter what colour there skin is. Working with fake docs. is a criminal offence after all.

The only crackdowns here last for 24 hours, so that would not be enough.

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, possum1931 said:

The only crackdowns here last for 24 hours, so that would not be enough.

Sure enough. It wouldn't happen anyway as school directors are complicit.

[Essaybloke]

Huh? The cops are going after lawbreakers and it's 'news'? 

 

 

[SunsetT]

8 hours ago, YetAnother said:

should we, long stay expats, be worried about efforts like this ? i believe we should, simply due to the prevailing thai attitude that anyone not thai is a tourist; how can these tourist police make an accurate snap judgment that we are either tourist or long-stay expat ? they can't, as a result we are ever more subject to harassment as an easy vent to their racism

.....You'd better start using skin whitener like the Thais.

[rott]

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Those dastardly religious men, undermining the security of the country.

Were they praying without a work permit?

 

Possibly  religious men claiming to be changing a wafer into a dead body could be classed as work.

[Russell17au]

8 hours ago, YetAnother said:

should we, long stay expats, be worried about efforts like this ? i believe we should, simply due to the prevailing thai attitude that anyone not thai is a tourist; how can these tourist police make an accurate snap judgment that we are either tourist or long-stay expat ? they can't, as a result we are ever more subject to harassment as an easy vent to their racism

I don't believe that there is any thing to worry about because I am not an illegal or an overstay or working without a work permit but I do obey the immigration laws of Thailand and I do carry my passport which when asked for it shows that I am a long stay expat. It is only those that do not want to obey the laws that should be worried. So YetAnother why are you worried? What are you doing wrong?

[mok199]

we need Dog and Beth..

[jenny2017]

He says many are masquerading as international school teachers and footballers to commit crime

Surachet said most of the suspects were "coloured" people working for football clubs or as English teachers, while some were Catholic priests.

 

   Even when we "long time stayers"are usually law abiding citizens, the whole story leaves a very bitter taste. 

 

      Be careful if you are a football player, an English teacher, or a Catholic priest. 

Edited March 15, 2018 by jenny2017

[jenny2017]

3 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

I don't believe that there is any thing to worry about because I am not an illegal or an overstay or working without a work permit but I do obey the immigration laws of Thailand and I do carry my passport which when asked for it shows that I am a long stay expat. It is only those that do not want to obey the laws that should be worried. So YetAnother why are you worried? What are you doing wrong?

Maybe because we are also foreigners? And there's no doubt that we foreigners have to fight with more and more Thainess pure. 

[Russell17au]

Just now, jenny2017 said:

Maybe because we are also foreigners? And there's no doubt that we foreigners have to fight with more and more Thainess pure. 

Thailand is no different to anywhere else in the world in regards to foreigners, with tourists overstays, tourist illegally working, it happens in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. If you are not breaking the law then what is there to worry about. If you are going to worry about something that you can do nothing about then you will have a miserable life here in Thailand.

[HLover]

4 hours ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

Aren't Tourist Police supposed to be the friendly authoritive  face of Thailand for Tourists if they have an unfortunate experience on holiday. ... ...helpful and supposedly there to assist?

More like a specialist SWAT squad to single out foreigners and go after them!

The last foreigner tourist police I saw was last week, entrance of Walking Street at a traffic stop (helmets, paperwork, ect).

He was Arab looking, wearing a Darth Vader type facemask and a black T-shirt at least 1 size too small.

Didn't look like a friendly face at all, more like a gym freak with a hard on for other foreigners.

So, obviously I ignored him and delt with the Thai traffic police.

They were weary but ok.