Motorcyclists on the sidewalk: Grassing them up just ain't working!

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Motorcyclists on the sidewalk: Grassing them up just ain't working!

 

Pictures (2): Daily News 

 

The much hyped scheme to report motorcyclists for riding and parking on sidewalks in Bangkok is in tatters.

 

A meeting chaired by the Bangkok governor this week was told that out of 8,845 reports only 641 had resulted in actual fines.

 

Members of the public were encouraged to be "supergrasses" on Bangkok's motorcyclists back in August of last year.

 

If they took a photo and sent in the report via an application they could expect part of the fine.

 

Now it has emerged that only 229,890 baht has been collected in fines.

 

And out of that only 186,490 baht has gone to the public in 501 of the cases.

 

 

That means about 372 baht for each person who successfully called in.

 

Thousands of other cases have been handed over to the Department of Land Transport and the Traffic Police because there was "insufficient detail and they needed to be followed up".

 

Bangkok governor Asawin Khwanmuang has ordered his "thesakit" officers to step up their patrols as the public reporting scheme flounders, reported Daily News.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-18

[Wiggy]

A new law enforcement scheme in Thailand has failed to work? Shock! Horror!

[bluesofa]

2 hours ago, Wiggy said:

A new law enforcement scheme in Thailand has failed to work? Shock! Horror!

A new law enforcement scheme group of police in Thailand has failed to work? Shock! Horror!

 

[Somchai Logic]

Um... Duh!!! 

These Lazy Clowns would have to actually get off their Ar$3s and do something 

[digger70]

The Government should employ a Police force that Will Police the Laws in this Country,,,, OOOh crap they got a Claytons Police force, So they will have to start Again.

[wotsdermatter]

Is Thailand where the Keystone Cops originated?  Just curious.

[lespaulTV]

Whats wrong with this country?

[Henrik Andersen]

Come on Thailand now people helping to fine people there do wrong and want you do nothing to lazy 

That's why Thai people don't care about police 

And now it better to hunt tourists there rent a bike 

Wake up 

[Classic Ray]

The low enforcement rate is probably because so many bikes either have no plates or are not registered to their current owners and so cannot be traced. Even if the police called at the registered owners house (unlikely) probably most of them would have moved on.

 

The solution in the UK was to have ANPR cameras connected to the DVLA database that showed whether they were stolen, untaxed or uninsured. If so, they were seized and unless made legal, accompanied by high penalties, they were crushed.

 

Maybe in twenty years here.

[jenny2017]

If they took a photo and sent in the report via an application they could expect part of the fine

 

And throwing a bag of Jaba to the neighbor got him killed a while ago.

 

  Isn't much different, is it?

 

  

Edited May 18, 2018 by jenny2017

[ChouDoufu]

how much of the fine should i expect to receive if i report the local cops who ride two-up without helmet on the sidewalks near me?

[YTP]

Doesn't help when the win mocy guys build their little cement ramps to climb the curbs either, lol.

[Confuscious]

Maybe, the police should hire "motorcycle taxi drivers who kick people in the head" to help them out in that difficult task?

[cracker1]

The DLT App where one could report these incidents and photos worked only for 2 months from August last year and was reported as "overloaded"

Like most things in Thailand if it is broken it stays broken !

[bluesofa]

6 minutes ago, cracker1 said:

The DLT App where one could report these incidents and photos worked only for 2 months from August last year and was reported as "overloaded"

Like most things in Thailand if it is broken it stays broken !

Ha ha, I like that! Updated version specific to Thailand of the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

 

[happy chappie]

3 hours ago, cracker1 said:

The DLT App where one could report these incidents and photos worked only for 2 months from August last year and was reported as "overloaded"

Like most things in Thailand if it is broken it stays broken !

There was me thinking just go around and take a 100 snaps a day and if you only got paid 20% of the reported offences you would be on 7,440 baht a day.a hair brained scheme run by hair brained idiots who should be sell bananas in the market.i wonder if they were using windows 98 with a 32 mb hard drive.

[DieterWiehe]

18 hours ago, digger70 said:

The Government should employ a Police force that Will Police the Laws in this Country,,,, OOOh crap they got a Claytons Police force, So they will have to start Again.

those jokers know as much about the Law as the know about traffic regulations zero