Drunk tourist knocks tooth out of volunteer foreign policeman in Walking Street arrest

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Drunk tourist knocks tooth out of volunteer foreign policeman in Walking Street arrest

 

 

Siam Chon News reported that a drunk foreign tourist - arrested for not paying his bar tab - then attacked a Russian volunteer tourist policeman at the checkpoint by the entrance to Walking Street, South Pattaya.

 

Mervyn Michael, 58, was apparently already in custody when a fight broke out with forty eight year old volunteer Vyacheslav Cherepanov in which an upper left tooth was knocked out of his mouth.

 

The cop went to hospital while the tourist was detained.

 

The incident happened around 1 am this morning.

 

Siam Chon News said that the tourist's nationality was not clear.

 

Source: Siamchon News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-04-27

 

[4MyEgo]

One way ticket straight back to his home country, NEVER to return to the Land of Toothless volunteer foreign policemen

 

Edited April 27, 2018 by 4MyEgo

[Peterw42]

Hopefully this incident will bring home the message that Police volunteers are there to help with translation/explanations etc "NOT" dress up like they are in a swat team and arrest/detain people or enforce the law. They are not police and have no police powers and should stop acting like they do.

[Get Real]

And almost everybody blaming or making a joke out of the police. Unfathomable!

[VocalNeal]

^ Not really. 

[sammieuk1]

Something different to put under the pillow tonight.

[NCC1701A]

so how did a suspect in custody who should be handcuffed with his arms behind his back knock Ivan's tooth out?

 

This is a rhetorical question. 

[Rimmer]

Some off topic and troll posts have been removed, there is no excuse for hitting another person in or out of a uniform so lets discuss that please:

 

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[nausea]

I think you have to punch pretty hard to knock out a natural healthy tooth with your fist. I suspect the tooth was defective or weakened in some way.

[alwaysrainsinUK]

His accent sounds like that from Northern Ireland where he says he has his own house .

[oxforddon]

Once again, people knock the volunteer Tourist police. No pay, long hours dealing with drunk idiots, buy all their own gear and uniforms and generally assist folks with problems or just advice into the early hours of the morning, and are in danger of getting hurt while doing so. There is also some serious misunderstanding of what they have the right to do. If under supervision and/or orders by Thai officers they DO have the right to detain, restrain and otherwise do what is necessary in all situations.

[mercman24]

all you pathetic lot of here taking the piss out of them i hope you get into trouble one day, they do a good job. you are not even funny.

[Radar501]

Whether the volunteers have police powers or not, it is all about what the average man on the street perceives.   If something looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck,  then it probably is a duck.     

 

If a drunk ran amuck and knocked a cop's tooth out in my part of the world, he would end up at the station with his own face banged up beyond recognition.    The fellow in this incident has much to be thankful for. 

[Blue Muton]

4 hours ago, Get Real said:

And almost everybody blaming or making a joke out of the police. Unfathomable!

It would be unfathonable were that the case, however most of the replies seem to be (rightly) supportive of the tourist police.

[observer90210]

A black swat team paratrooper style uniform will not protect from a drunk....

 

Uniform or no uniform.....one plainly does not hit other people. File Closed.

[Bob12345]

1 hour ago, Radar501 said:

If a drunk ran amuck and knocked a cop's tooth out in my part of the world, he would end up at the station with his own face banged up beyond recognition.    The fellow in this incident has much to be thankful for. 

And which developing nation do you come from? Some former soviet state, south-america or south-africa maybe?

 

In my home country the cop who would bang up someones face beyond recognition will end up in jail by default. 

 

Punishments will be handed down by a judge, not cops.

[Juan B Tong]

Give that volunteer Fuzz a medal.

 

Do your thing comrade.  

 

Thanks from me for taking a hit for the good guys and raising the general cred of foreigners in this hood we live in.

[bbbbooboo]

hmmmm.......are the tourist police a toothless force......?

[Tchooptip]

6 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Hopefully this incident will bring home the message that Police volunteers are there to help with translation/explanations etc "NOT" dress up like they are in a swat team and arrest/detain people or enforce the law. They are not police and have no police powers and should stop acting like they do.

Do you really want to take away their only pleasure? 

[soalbundy]

4 hours ago, nausea said:

I think you have to punch pretty hard to knock out a natural healthy tooth with your fist. I suspect the tooth was defective or weakened in some way.

That won't matter, the volunteer with help from his police buddies can now get an implant tooth for 70k and present the bill to the drunk,that should sober him up.

[scubascuba3]

His accent sounds like that from Northern Ireland where he says he has his own house .

Initially i thought that but when talking about the bill he sounded like a Brit from the south.
Anyway, deport him, he's the kind Thailand really doesn't want

[catman20]

5 hours ago, alwaysrainsinUK said:

His accent sounds like that from Northern Ireland where he says he has his own house .

HE IS,

the man nothing but trouble, he has a reputation for this sort of behavior, he had a similar incident about 18 month ago in walking street with a lady boy it made the SUN newspapers in Ireland and the UK. he lives in a village in Pattaya where a friend of mine lives the mans a nightmare.

[AsiaHand]

8 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Hopefully this incident will bring home the message that Police volunteers are there to help with translation/explanations etc "NOT" dress up like they are in a swat team and arrest/detain people or enforce the law. They are not police and have no police powers and should stop acting like they do.

There are a few good guys actually helping the Tourist Police but many of them are "Want-A-Bes",causing more harm then good.

[natway09]

Just another idiot tourist which Thailand does not need. Stop trying to justify stupidity

[Baerboxer]

1 hour ago, natway09 said:

Just another idiot tourist which Thailand does not need. Stop trying to justify stupidity

 

Two idiots. A drunk one and one whose living some fantasy.

 

Thailand doesn't need either type.

[pattayabgoodboy]

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Two idiots. A drunk one and one whose living some fantasy.

 

Thailand doesn't need either type.

Drunk should get a medal. russian guy with metal baton handcuffs and peperspray.

Edited April 27, 2018 by pattayabgoodboy

[soalbundy]

43 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Two idiots. A drunk one and one whose living some fantasy.

 

Thailand doesn't need either type.

You don't know that. I did volunteer tourist police work in Chiang Mai, admittedly there were a few out of the 90 or so of us who thought they were Rambo but most of us did it out of release from boredom.It was sometimes good fun but we were often pushed forward by the real tourist police to sort things out while they stood back and watched, it was sometimes downright dangerous. I speak English,German and Thai so I was a favourite to be hauled up next to the interrogating officer where I basically did the interrogation. Through this, apart from meeting some of the dregs of farang society, I was able to advise,warn and help those farang who either weren't to drunk or drugged up to be helped. The favourite was insurance scams, my room has been robbed, after listening I would advise them quietly that if this was an insurance scam not to sign the statement because officers would now be on their way to search their room, just say you were tired, had a bit to drink,it's all a mistake, don't sign anything and you can leave, about 70% just left. Some, many women, had been robbed and just wanted a farang shoulder to cry on but didn't know or were too shocked to ring up home and cancel credit cards so I arranged to find out telephone numbers and tell them how to arrange for emergency money to be sent from their foreign accounts to a temporary Thai account, often this was done in our free time (I wasn't alone in my endeavours). Also many of us found that each had become a favourite of one establishment or other and would be rung up privately instead of the real police when there was trouble with farang because we handled things quietly and discreetly thereby often assuming (lying) to powers that we didn't have but it solved problems and avoided arrests and of course we would get one or two free beers out of it. All in all I can say that before I left to go to Isaan I did a useful job and had saved many know it all farangs from jail time.

[Henrik Andersen]

Pay your bar bill stupid man 

 

[sawadee1947]

Again one of those quality tourists of those quality countries with quality behaviour and quality education.... 

[soalbundy]

1 minute ago, car720 said:

Which, of course, deserves a rhetorical answer.      

Tourist police don't usually handcuff and don't arrest, once they have taken a signed statement, in Thai and English, the criminal police are called to do the arrest and charging if this is warranted. The tourist police are there to help tourists in trouble, the statement made to them is a bastion against the police making you sign statements in Thai that you can't understand,you needn't sign any other statement just refer to the statement made at the tourist police, you have a copy. This apparently often goes wrong. It is law that a foreign tourist is first investigated by the tourist police to protect your rights before the criminal police can charge you, I think this is ignored sometimes out of malice or ignorance,there is a certain amount of tension between the criminal and tourist police. I had noticed that often hospitals were ignorant of the fact that a dead farang had to be first reported to the tourist police and they then do the rest, instead they call the criminal police instead so often the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.