Video: Surin traffic cop praised for handing out helmets not fines

 

Picture: INN

 

INN reported on the case of a Surin based highway patrol cop who was filmed handing out a new helmet to a school student.

 

His actions have been widely praised on social media.

 

INN found out that the officer involved is Senior Sergeant Major Saikrasun, 48, who patrols Route 24 in his car.

 

He said the accident situation is really bad and he always offers helpful advice to motorists and bike riders on how to avoid accidents.

 

And he always has a ready supply of new helmets to dole out to students and adults instead of fines.

 

The helmets come from donations made by a shop called Khun Heng 1999 in his neighborhood.

 

A video showed an appreciative boy trying to put on the helmet. He needed some help to accomplish this task, however.

 

Source: INN

 

 

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at least he is trying to do something.

 

 

50 minutes ago, webfact said:

A video showed an appreciative boy trying to put on the helmet. He needed some help to accomplish this task, however.

 

Just about sums up the massive task they face !! 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

INN reported on the case of a Surin based highway patrol cop who was filmed handing out a new helmet to a school student.

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A video showed an appreciative boy trying to put on the helmet. He needed some help to accomplish this task, however.

 

How old was the student? Did he have a DL?

1 hour ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Just about sums up the massive task they face !! 

True.

 

There's another way to look at this, a large% of Thais don't like the idea of laws and regulations - leave things free, let me decide things like this.  In other words there is little progress towards respect for the the concept of laws and civil society, nor the specific law involved and there is no progress in reinforcing that you must obey the law.  

 

 

 

So, no fine? Oh, right. Thank you for not wearing a helmet. Today is your lucky day, I will give you one for free just out of that reason. This cop makes it profitable to not wear a helmet.

Good & positive example with respect....?   better than seeing more accidents....

6 hours ago, webfact said:

A video showed an appreciative boy trying to put on the helmet. He needed some help to accomplish this task, however.

And he's in control of a motorbike?

 

 

Comforting.

7 minutes ago, nabbie said:

 better than seeing more accidents.

How does wearing helmets reduce the accident rate? 

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

So, no fine? Oh, right. Thank you for not wearing a helmet. Today is your lucky day, I will give you one for free just out of that reason. This cop makes it profitable to not wear a helmet.

Should be handing out helmets, then fines thereafter if caught not wearing one.

 

The Thais are probably going to make a living off purposefully driving past him every day on the way to the 2nd hand helmet store.

4 minutes ago, Happy Grumpy said:

How does wearing helmets reduce the accident rate? 

Don't know but surely reduce the injured rate. 

3 hours ago, Get Real said:

So, no fine? Oh, right. Thank you for not wearing a helmet. Today is your lucky day, I will give you one for free just out of that reason. This cop makes it profitable to not wear a helmet.

How pathetic!

The cop is doing something positive, useful, intelligent. If all the cops were like that, we could make real progress on the roads in this country.

 

Waste of money.  The Thais will either sell them, toss them, or put them into the boot of the scooter.  Kudos to the cop.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

A video showed an appreciative boy trying to put on the helmet. He needed some help to accomplish this task, however.

Wonderful. Apparently, lessons in putting on the helmet should precede any that aim to teach the basics of riding a motorbike.

3 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

How does wearing helmets reduce the accident rate? 

It doesn't but maybe the 'advice' given by the cop to the rider will. The helmet may mitigate the personal severity of a crash for the rider.

 

Yes, many other "actions" also need to happen but at least this copper is trying to do something! Well done Senior Sergeant Major Saikrasun for showing some initiative.

3 hours ago, mfd101 said:

How pathetic!

The cop is doing something positive, useful, intelligent. If all the cops were like that, we could make real progress on the roads in this country.

 

Perfect! So, now even foreigners that comes to Thailand praise the cops for giving away helmets. And you do not se the fact that a cop have to give away helmets to reduce the deaths in traffic pathetic?

This is just dumb. 

They should drop the war on drugs and start a war on road offences, I'm pretty sure the death toll from the worst drugs here is miniscule, or we'd hear all about it, and yet look how many tonnes are getting seized every day now. 

That's just the stuff they intercept. 

Totally wrong headed.  

Helmets?  Ha. 

 

38 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Perfect! So, now even foreigners that comes to Thailand praise the cops for giving away helmets. And you do not se the fact that a cop have to give away helmets to reduce the deaths in traffic pathetic?

Yes, it's sad that it should be thus. But improvement has to start somewhere.

 

If people wait for 'governments' or the 'élites' to start the processes of reform in this country, our great-grandchildren will be dead before it happens. Only local initiatives - bottom up - and slowly spreading as ideas catch on will make a difference.

 

Endless negativism means that everyone's defeated without even trying. How pathetic.

 

It's not that Thais don't have helmets, they have them, they just don't want to wear them. 

18 minutes ago, Ulic said:

It's not that Thais don't have helmets, they have them, they just don't want to wear them. 

Compare how many people are wearing helmets now with how many, say, 3 years ago. A BIG improvement - consistent with (1) greater police enforcement, with road blocks just about everywhere just about every day (here in Isaan at least) & (2) the example that people pick up as they see others wearing helmets & (3) steady economic movement up the ladder that enables them to purchase things they saw as dispensable and anyway too expensive only 3 years ago.

 

I see this latter effect in my own family here in Surin: young fellas who wouldn't have even thought of wearing a helmet a few years ago are now decked out & looking pleased with themselves in the sexiest helmet they could find to accompany their shiny new sexy motorbike (bought with my money but carefully paid off gradually over the next 6 months). Example leads to fashion leads to change ....

5 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

Wonderful. Apparently, lessons in putting on the helmet should precede any that aim to teach the basics of riding a motorbike.

What is it with posters on this forum? 

Whinge and whine if any effort to be positive occurs. 

Not happy unless everything falls? 

Gotta be whingeing poms who seem to be in majority when it comes to Thai bashing..... Almost an expat national sport.

Give up 

 

Go home.  Thailand will improve with or without you. 

You can lead a horse to water you can't make it drink. You can give a Thai a free helmet but you can't make it wear it. 

16 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

And he's in control of a motorbike?

 

 

Comforting.

The cop should know that the way he put the helmet on the student head   is not good. It should be level . On the video it is too much up and the wind will catch and push he helmet back on the head     Sure the student will not wear it again...

 

Nice cop but he should learn how to properly wear a helmet

6 hours ago, fullcave said:

You can lead a horse to water you can't make it drink. You can give a Thai a free helmet but you can't make it wear it. 

Same as with rules and regulations! So, what is your point?

22 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

at least he is trying to do something.

Fake news as per normal.Thais like to come up with this crap every now and then. It's called 'hearts and minds' and set up to give good publicity to whoever at the time. In this case the cops on route 24.

 

23 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the accident situation is really bad and he always offers helpful advice to motorists and bike riders on how to avoid accidents.

 

And he always has a ready supply of new helmets to dole out to students and adults instead of fines.

His fellow officers must be p****** themselves at that statement.

13 hours ago, Small Joke said:

They should drop the war on drugs and start a war on road offences, I'm pretty sure the death toll from the worst drugs here is miniscule, or we'd hear all about it, and yet look how many tonnes are getting seized every day now. 

That's just the stuff they intercept. 

It's not about deaths caused by drugs but those that financially benefit from supplying them. Organised crime is more harmful to the country than people getting killed on the roads.

55 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Same as with rules and regulations! So, what is your point?

That was my point. 

43 minutes ago, fullcave said:

That was my point. 

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