RTP: Traffic police to be paid for hard graft - that means work!

[webfact]

RTP: Traffic police to be paid for hard graft - that means work!

 

Picture: Daily News 

 

Traffic police are soon to be rewarded for working hard.

 

Top cops at the RTP have decided that they do not get enough money for all their efforts.

 

The system of getting bonuses on the number of tickets issued is also to be phased out to stop corruption.

 

Pol Maj Gen Ekkarak Limsangkat of Region 3 of the metropolitan police said that traffic cops work from dawn to dusk. They don't get enough pay for all their hard work.

 

So they are looking at a way to give them overtime payments for days exceeding 8 hours.

 

Maj Gen Ekkarak also said that the system whereby officers get a share in traffic fines would be stopped. There has been corrupt manipulation of the figures, he admitted to Daily News.

 

The exact rates for OT pay are still to be decided.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[colinneil]

Please stop these headlines, nearly choked on  my coffee.

The only kind of graft them buggers know is the criminal kind.... Graft.

Edited May 15, 2018 by colinneil

[Denim]

I can't help thinking that without getting a share in the fines they impose their incentive to fine wrong doers will be reduced and thereby lead to more wrongdoing.

[darksidedog]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

Maj Gen Ekkarak also said that the system whereby officers get a share in traffic fines would be stopped

I note he didn't mention where the money was subsequently going to go. Sounds like the top brass could do quite well out of it, without having to put any more hours in at all.

[Dmaxdan]

24 minutes ago, webfact said:

The system of getting bonuses on the number of tickets issued is also to be phased out to stop corruption.

Maybe they should start giving them a decent bonus for actually enforcing genuine traffic laws. I mean there are enough people that actually violate traffic laws that these officers could make a pretty penny.... legally. Now there's a thought....  

Edited May 15, 2018 by Dmaxdan

[observer90210]

Ouch !!.....no more cutbacks from the official fines ??!!..... . Oh dear !!....looks like times are going to get tougher for motorised farangs !!!

Edited May 15, 2018 by observer90210

[ThreeEyedRaven]

I really had to laugh at this. Cops working hard?  Stop corruption?  Don't get enough money? 

Seriously? Please stop, my sides are splitting!

[Get Real]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

RTP: Traffic police to be paid for hard graft - that means work!

What? But if the salury is to be paid according to work done, that will never fit well with the stipulated lowest legal salury to be paid.
Here we will really need an amendment that makes an exception in the law, so this can be possible. 

[bluesofa]

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

Traffic police are soon to be rewarded for working hard.

I'd suggest the word "hard" is superfluous.

 

[Darcula]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Traffic police are soon to be rewarded for working hard.

 

What's wrong with the current system of getting rewarded for hardly working?

[Happyman58]

Does that mean there will be traffic cops working at night and catching all the street racers 

[bluesofa]

Just now, Happyman58 said:

Does that mean there will be traffic cops working at night and catching all the street racers 

Have you ever seen any cop working at night? Not where I live. They're all scared of the dark.

 

[Happyman58]

1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

Have you ever seen any cop working at night? Not where I live. They're all scared of the dark.

 

sofa I agree only time I have seen them is about 1 at night coming home from wifes shop trying to catch drink drivers. But that is a very rare occurrence. One of these days these so-called street racers are going to meet there maker. They are just so dangerous makes me look in shock horror what they do. They pull their bike up onto one wheel when they are speeding I just turn away

[marko kok prong]

Where i live,they knock off at 4pm.

[trainman34014]

Many can be seen in our area doing little or no work at all for months on end, especially high ranking Officers that barely ever turn up for duty as they are too busy running other business's on the side.   Are these people going to have money DEDUCTED from their pay under the new guidelines ?

[Emster23]

Judging by the mansions some of them live in, and on a policeman's salary, maybe they should go on TV and show the rest of us how they can do this and be hard working, honest, trustworthy and brave

[Somchai Logic]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Top cops at the RTP have decided that they do not get enough money for all their efforts.

On the contrary - they get paid perfectly proportionately 

[Somchai Logic]

2 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Where i live,they knock off at 4pm.

Aren't you supposed to 'Start' before you can 'Knock Off'? 

[Happyman58]

2 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Where i live,they knock off at 4pm.

well, where I live its 6 pm must be 2 hours overtime.

[hansnl]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Please stop these headlines, nearly choked on  my coffee.

The only kind of graft them buggers know is the criminal kind.... Graft.

Coffee in the morning, it is said, tend to make you chokish......

And news like this doesn't really help.

[NoshowJones]

Traffic cops work from dawn to dusk?? Where?? On the highways?? Country back roads?? In the cities?? On the carriage and tollways?? Are they in cars, motorbikes, in their little boxes playing with the traffic lights??

 

Then why do I never see them?? Oh! Wait, I saw one last week.

[Henrik Andersen]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Traffic police are soon to be rewarded for working hard.

 

Top cops at the RTP have decided that they do not get enough money for all their efforts.

 

 

So the traffic police in jomtien not getting anything because I never see them working and I really hope one day in future they start to work and go after noises bike's and drinking driving 

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Many can be seen in our area doing little or no work at all for months on end, especially high ranking Officers that barely ever turn up for duty as they are too busy running other business's on the side.   Are these people going to have money DEDUCTED from their pay under the new guidelines ?

"as they are too busy running other business's on the side". Really? You mean like British MPs? 

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, Emster23 said:

Judging by the mansions some of them live in, and on a policeman's salary, maybe they should go on TV and show the rest of us how they can do this and be hard working, honest, trustworthy and brave

Where do they get the money to buy all these fancy ranks and regalia? You know, the Maj/Gens and Lt/ Cols etc.

 

They are a joke, the lot of them. 

[essox essox]

9 hours ago, colinneil said:

Please stop these headlines, nearly choked on  my coffee.

The only kind of graft them buggers know is the criminal kind.... Graft.

and the hard work of opening brown envelopes....and putting cash into their pockets.....

I feel so sorry for all the hard work they do!!

[essox essox]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

Traffic cops work from dawn to dusk?? Where?? On the highways?? Country back roads?? In the cities?? On the carriage and tollways?? Are they in cars, motorbikes, in their little boxes playing with the traffic lights??

 

Then why do I never see them?? Oh! Wait, I saw one last week.

so you hit the jackpot seeing one was he working??

[NoshowJones]

18 minutes ago, essox essox said:

so you hit the jackpot seeing one was he working??

He was driving a police car on the highway so I assume he was "working".

[Moti24]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Traffic police are soon to be rewarded for working hard.

 

Top cops at the RTP have decided that they do not get enough money for all their efforts.

I wish they wouldn't print stuff like this!  It just winds me up!

[anon4637435435]

All the police at my local station are driving mercs and beamers. Not sure what they are talking about with this story. Not once have they ever worked. Still waiting on them to come out.... Been years now!

This story must be assuming that there is police here. Meaning that they uphold the law. Fact is they just dont do it. Just exploit the system. How about putting them in jail for not doing their job. As soon as there is a descent police force then give them a much deserved pay rise but until then....

[DJ54]

It’s  a bit pathetic. Pay them a decent salary to uphold the law and uphold it. Doubt it will change in my lifetime.