DPM Prawit orders Defence Ministry to keep closer tabs on foreigners up to no good in Thailand

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DPM Prawit orders Defence Ministry to keep closer tabs on foreigners up to no good in Thailand

 

Picture: Manager online

 

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan has ordered the Defense Ministry to improve measures to keep tabs on foreigners in Thailand in an effort to stop transnational crime.

 

After a top level meeting yesterday spokesman Khongcheep Tantrawanich said that the issue of how foreigners living in Thailand were monitored was discussed.

 

Deputy Prawit wants to see improvements and a coordinated effort from all agencies from when they arrive in the country to where they are residing and other details that were unspecified.

 

To facilitate this the DE (digital economy) department are being involved to ensure that technology is used to make sure that the authorities can keep track of where people are and what they are doing.

 

Those mentioned in particular were tourists, investors and laborers, reported Manager.

 

Prawit has called for reform in the way the authorities approach the safety and stability of the country in this regard.

 

Source: Manager online

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-17

[Chang_paarp]

I don't suppose developing a professional, appropriately trained and paid police force entered his head?

[PatOngo]

Foreigners with 25 or more expensive watches will be exempt from scrutiny even if they borrowed the watches from a dead friend!............They are GOOD people!

Edited May 17, 2018 by PatOngo

[darksidedog]

So he wants to stop Transnational crime? He would be better off focusing on stopping the domestic crime first, even though doing so might see him in trouble over a matter of some still unexplained watches and bling.

[JoePai]

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !!

[NanLaew]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Deputy Prawit wants to see improvements and a coordinated effort from all agencies from when they arrive in the country to where they are residing and other details that were unspecified.

Papers!!! Verr are your papers???!!!

[Thailand]

Wouldn't putting a watch on all foreigners be expensive and considered populist even though we can't vote?

More important, would we have a choice of model?

 

[humbug]

if we go back to the dinosaur generals day 5 years ago at the stadium next to mbk.

 

When they said they wanted foreigners out etc, and shut thailand down for 5 years.Before public relations teams came in and re-incarnated it into sutheps protest to add more spice and attractions to the dumb middle class.

 

looks like those dinosaurs keep getting what they want, soon a foreigner cant take a pee without someone knowing.

 

 

[worgeordie]

So not only the Immigration,the Police and now the Army 

are going to be involved in checking on dodgy Farangs, 

bit of overkill,in my view,especially if it means more interference

in the lives of good people who are retired,married or working 

working legally here,wonder who will be the first to report a tank

and troop of soldiers has just pulled up at the front door !

regards worgeordie

[Anak Nakal]

All foreigner criminal.

That all. Easy.

[mercman24]

DEFENCE MINISTRY  ? so that would be the Army then, well they do run this country now. as the police force are just a name.

[johng]

4 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

wonder who will be the first to report a tank

and troop of soldiers has just pulled up at the front door !

I will be the first to say I had a troop of fully armed soldiers at my front door at 6AM along with a possy of Police and a warrant with  google map printout of our building...fortunately they where not looking for me but  some drug dealer on the second floor  directly below me...they didn't find him but carted off a couple of Burmese labourers...it was very nerve racking for me my wife and I.

[stanleycoin]

How nice to see it's the naughty Falangs causing all this trouble and tarnishing the good name of Thailand.

Can't they just have a wallet, drop box at the Airport, and the falangs could drop the money off, and get back on the same aeroplane and go home.

Get out Scum Falang 

[madmitch]

 Those in the country legally are already pretty much followed with 90 day reports or reports to Immigration by hotels etc. I suppose hotel and guesthouse owners can expect another crackdown on TM30 reporting and maybe the 90 day report will become a 30 day report!!!!

 

The problem is the illegals. They've made a start by targeting those persons of a certain demographic but there's a long way to go.

 

But xenophobia does appear to be becoming worse here.

[cms22]

Ah yes, you never need to look very far in Thailand to see evidence of xenophobia.

Problem is, I do believe this xenophobia is getting worse.

[cms22]

43 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Papers!!! Verr are your papers???!!!

Funny. But horribly and scarily feasible here in increasingly xenophobic Thailand.

[Jimbo in Thailand]

This ridiculous announcement is almost humorous considering it's from the ultra-corrupt pig-faced deputy himself.  Remember, this is happening under his 'watch'. (Sorry, had to say it!)

[Somtamnication]

Yep, Prawit orders that farangs be "watched" and arrested at any "time". Ironic, innit? 

[cms22]

I think another really scary thing about Thailand's xenophobia is that in most cases Thai people are not even aware that it is regarded as xenophobia. 

[maxcorrigan]

He has to say something, now he has satisfactorily explained where his watchies came from, and as usual falangs are always easy to have a dig at!

[jayboy]

I'm sure what I say won't be well received but absurd though the current campaign is, there is a major issue with foreigners in Thailand.It's almost never discussed on Thai Visa not least because the forum is geared to cater for many of the large population of "resident" foreigners.

 

Having said that, here's the problem.

 

Thailand is unusual for tolerating a huge population of foreigners on a permanent or semi permanent basis who have no very obvious reason for being here.This would not be allowed by other countries in the region or indeed anywhere else.There is no Thailand nationally agreed policy though over time visa regulations have been amended to permit retirees and others to stay.This is very different from saying retirees are encouraged.Thailand despite the endless litany of complaints has a very liberal visa regime.Generally the floating foreigner population is not the high quality variety that many countries do encourage.Many are former tourists who have settled down with their Thai "families".None of this would matter very much if the numbers were small but they aren't and sleazy resorts like Pattaya are increasingly resented by educated middle class Thais.IT's not of course just a matter of low rent farang but a whole welter of other foreigners.Meanwhile Thailand is changing socially and economically and social media is very widely used.Thus it would be naive to believe that the liberal regime will continue into the future without much scrutiny and questioning.The multiculturism of the the West isn't really there in Thailand.Thais are generally a tolerant and welcoming people but it seems to me unrealistic to believe there are no limits to their willingness to accept such large numbers of foreigners and of such very dubious quality.

 

 

[coulson]

Doesn't he watch the news, but joke has it all under control.

 

Now let's see a wasted and uncoordinated effort between the RTP and the army. 

 

Squandering taxpayers money this lot. 

[ezzra]

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !!

Hey, the pot can do whatever he like because he's high ranking Thai pot, the Kettle however, being a lowly foreigner, is a different story....

Edited May 17, 2018 by ezzra

[KiwiKiwi]

Because on their own, they wouldn't/couldn't have thought of it so little piggie had to tell them.

 

Laugh a minute this lot.

[Destiny1990]

Hey How about individual shadow 24/7 every foreigner in Thailand? then  they always know where the foreigners are and what the foreigners are doing.

[Briggsy]

By the time this rather vague order (foreigners up to no good!!) has filtered down through the layers of the civil service and police and reached the "coal face", it will have morphed into a rather obvious revenue-raising scheme probably based around some regulation dating from 1928 that foreigner A did not fill in and file form B at office C within a certain time period and is thus liable for a fine of not greater than D,000 Baht of which 50% is retained as a 'bonus' by the office issuing the fine.

 

TIT

[peperobi]

So now everyone knows it, we are the criminal, without foreigners is Thailand free of crime!

[Juan B Tong]

31 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Hey How about individual shadow 24/7 every foreigner in Thailand? then  they always know where the foreigners are and what the foreigners are doing.

He can send one around my place to guard me providing the soldier has a weapon and can put up with my slow driving.

 

I was under such 'observation' back in the early 90's living in Vietnam.  It was great, never felt so safe.

 

Of course I don't do anything illegal or questionable.

[KiwiKiwi]

42 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Hey How about individual shadow 24/7 every foreigner in Thailand? then  they always know where the foreigners are and what the foreigners are doing.

 

Not such a crazy idea, there's no doubt as to the level of paranoia, it's the only useful reason behind the 90-day report nonsense. The 800,000/400,000 bank account is much the same, nonsense. I was dismayed to find that an account for a Thai generates 2.5% interest, but the same account for a foreigner generates only 0.5%. good to see racism is alive and well in Thailand.

[tompelli]

To facilitate this the DE (digital economy) department are being involved to ensure that technology is used to make sure that the authorities can keep track of where people are and what they are doing.

& that's what the government payment schemes & 4.0 are all about.....little fat uncle is watching you.