Tourist police plan criminal checks on 1,400 Nigerians

[webfact]

Tourist police plan criminal checks on 1,400 Nigerians

By The Nation

 

FILE photo

 

Tourist police plan to visit 1,400 Nigerians in Thailand next week to check that they have no connection with criminal activities, deputy tourist police chief Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal said on Friday.

 

He said the measure is necessary for preventing criminals from coming to use Thailand as a base for illegal activities.

Surachet also urged members of the public to call the Tourist Police Bureau 1155 hotline if they detect foreigners involved in suspicious activities.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30351878

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-08-10

[keith101]

Giving them time to either leave the country or go into hiding first a good idea or not ?

[MisterTee]

Thai cops doing what they should have done a long time ago.

Keep the pressure on until these scammers find another country to do their dirty business in.

[worgeordie]

A flow of Nigerians going over the border ,till things

quieten down, but as Arnie said, They will be baack.

regards worgeordie

[stanleycoin]

1400 Nigerians maybe be using Thailand as a base for criminal behaviour.

Well let's face it they didn't come here for the beaches or the sun,  did they. 

Edited August 10, 2018 by stanleycoin

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, stanleycoin said:

1400 Nigerians maybe be using Thailand as a base for criminal behaviour.

Well let's face it they didn't come here for the beaches or the sun,  did they. 

Definitely not the sun, no.

 

I honestly misread '1,400 Nigerians' as 1,400 Ninjas.

 

[Darcula]

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

Tourist police plan criminal checks on 1,400 Nigerians

 

They gonna need a lot of criminals for this check.

 

[NCC1701A]

all the Nigerians have to do is send the cops this email:

 

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

 

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

 

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

 

 

 

[grantbkk]

Please don't forget lower Sukhumvit Road.

[sweatalot]

Those 14.000 Nigerians in the country are those who are known to immigration, so probably legal.

What about those who did not even come into the country legally?

 

Fortunately those countrymen are easily to discern on sight.

[ezzra]

I'm yet to see one single Nigerian tourist anywhere around Thailand, as fa as it is a common knowledge those guys are here for one purpose only and it is to rap people off in a million way... 

[webfact]

UPDATE:

 

Police To Investigate ‘All Nigerians’ In Thailand

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Tourist Police chief Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpal, standing at center, at a Friday press briefing on Khaosan Road.

 

BANGKOK — Police on Friday said they will target all Nigerians in Thailand for investigation in a move a top human rights official warns could amount to illegal and discriminatory policing.

 

Tourist Police chief Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpal made the announcement while displaying people rounded up in the latest mass arrests of 72 foreign nationals from 75 locations nationwide, including Khaosan Road. He said arrests were also made at 18 schools.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/08/10/police-to-investigate-all-nigerians-in-thailand/

[PatOngo]

29 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

all the Nigerians have to do is send the cops this email:

 

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

 

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

 

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

 

 

 

Sounds like a great deal, can I buy in?  ?

[BobbyL]

Why did they announce this? 

 

I would love to see Big Joke around Suk 13 - Suk 3 on a Friday and Saturday night. The amount of drugs I get offered in a very short stretch of road is ridiculous and the police do nothing. It has been like that since I first came here in 2010. 

[Small Joke]

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

Giving them time to either leave the country or go into hiding first a good idea or not ?

Kind of hard to hide, being a Nigerian in Thailand,  I'd have thought. 

What with casual racism not even recognised here much less debated, and that's just for starters. 

So,  if they leave the country,  isn't that a better win than the cost to the state of trial and incarceration, bearing in mind the jails house four times their capacity already? 

[Small Joke]

40 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

Why did they announce this? 

 

I would love to see Big Joke around Suk 13 - Suk 3 on a Friday and Saturday night. The amount of drugs I get offered in a very short stretch of road is ridiculous and the police do nothing. It has been like that since I first came here in 2010. 

Please,  can you tell me exactly what crime you've been a victim of,  refusing illicit drugs that were merely  offered to you? 

Or would you rather have been Mugged?  

The police here are hardly world class here,  but mention the word drugs, or Nigerian, and they go off like men possessed. 

You're one of the played, old boy. 

Supporting in your ignorance, a cosy prohibition arrangement.   

The big game says your pesky dealers are allowed to deal, but not otherwise molest the public, for a price... 

Until a bigger fish decides there's something in it for him.  Like a promotion. 

PS who'll be the first idiot to take this post as a pro-crime statement,  I wonder... 

 

Edited August 10, 2018 by Small Joke

[Small Joke]

1 hour ago, MisterTee said:

Thai cops doing what they should have done a long time ago.

Keep the pressure on until these scammers find another country to do their dirty business in.

There's only room for so many gangs after all.  They have enough official homegrown mobsters as it is.  ?

Money diverted from the destitute being one fine recent example. 

 

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, keith101 said:

Giving them time to either leave the country or go into hiding first a good idea or not ?

Border crossings might be busy for a few days then. ??

Edit.

Just noticed the flaw in my post.

How do you get through the border crossing with a years overstay or possibly no passport?

Edited August 10, 2018 by overherebc

[ozfarang]

How do these Nigerians obtain visas to enter Thailand? Is the Thai embassy in Nigeria a soft touch to get a tourist visa?

 

They do not qualify for visa exempt entry on arrival.

[Patanawet]

And how about the sub continental money sharks preying on the staff at bars and restaurants?

[MisterTee]

3 hours ago, MisterTee said:

Thai cops doing what they should have done a long time ago.

Keep the pressure on until these scammers find another country to do their dirty business in.

 

1 hour ago, Small Joke said:

There's only room for so many gangs after all.  They have enough official homegrown mobsters as it is.  ?

Money diverted from the destitute being one fine recent example. 

 

That insinuation - and there's a lot of truth to it - could be made about a great many countries and their law enforcement agencies.

Be thankful for small favors.

Draining the swamp in Pattaya, Lower Suky, and elsewhere, is a step in the right direction.

[pokerface1]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'm yet to see one single Nigerian tourist anywhere around Thailand, as fa as it is a common knowledge those guys are here for one purpose only and it is to rap people off in a million way... 

Yep you won't see them around as they are all behind closed doors. On the phone pleading for your money  

[iamsano]

keep doing the good work... go for all criminal no matter where they are from. 

[transam]

I hope the BiB don't fall for the soft talk to invest money in their stuff...?

[sammieuk1]

I'm sure these rascals will be busy in their boiler rooms up and down the country in the forthcoming days better to make an appointment first? 

[Belzybob]

2 hours ago, ozfarang said:

How do these Nigerians obtain visas to enter Thailand? Is the Thai embassy in Nigeria a soft touch to get a tourist visa?

 

They do not qualify for visa exempt entry on arrival.

Surprise! Thailand is not the only country in the world that accepts back-handers.

[Regyai]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

UPDate

 

BANGKOK — Police on Friday said they will target all Nigerians in Thailand for investigation in a move a top human rights official warns could amount to illegal and discriminatory policing.

 

 

They already said that these are "criminal checks"

 

?

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

1400 Nigerians my left foot!  Maybe 1400 who have not already overstayed.

There are probably 700 Nigerians lurking between Suk Soi 1 and Soi 17 on any given moment beckoning suspiciously to passersby. If Big Joke finds some to not be in sham marriages, running internet scams, working illegally or smuggling let them be welcomed. I have never seen an African at any museum, cultural event, restaurant popular with tourists, or other such attraction they are not here for the Temples! Some of the third rate "international footballers" even were found selling drugs.

[connda]

Wow!  That would fly like a lead balloon in the West, e.g., US, UK, France...
The progressive left would be flooding the streets condemning "racism" and "profiling" while calling for sanctuary cities to be built to house these poor, downtrodden souls from sub-Saharan Africa who also deserve social welfare payments from their host country.

But, not here in Thailand.  Not a social justice warrior to be found.  Even the neo-liberal Thais must be looking the other way. 
It's Thai-way or the highway folks!  "Good Guys In; Bad Guys Out!" 
So, Nigerians are perceived to be a predominately criminal class by the Thai establishment, so they get Big Joke and company's attention.  That's actually somewhat refreshing in this day and age of political correctness.  The US should hire him to run the TSA.  ?

Edited August 10, 2018 by connda

[ukrules]

I wonder which nationality they will come for next, once they're done with the Nigerians ?