Tourist Police service centres being set up on Phuket beaches

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHOTO: TravelScams.org

 

The Phuket Tourist Police are poised to improve marine and coastal safety by setting up service centres on Phuket beaches, starting initially with Kamala and Karon Beach.

 

The Tourist Police Division 3 Chief Major General Unggoon Klaiklueang says, “We have been planning on the project to set up the tourist service centres at Phuket’s busiest beaches.”

 

“The centres will be based in mobile modified shipping containers. Each centre will has two tourist police with an ATV vehicle (All-Terrain Vehicle)”

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/tourist-police-service-centres-being-set-up-on-phuket-beaches

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2018-11-16

How does this help anything?

5 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

How does this help anything?

Sure, it presents them with a PR opportunity.

Mind you, it does seem worrying the photo of the tourist police above is credited to an organisation called TravelScams.org

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Mind you, it does seem worrying the photo of the tourist police above is credited to an organisation called TravelScams.org

Yes, but these are 'legal' scams ????

Perhaps they could fill a void by doubling as life guards?

 

 

 

Await the picture of Big Joke at the grand opening.

 

1 hour ago, Old Croc said:

Perhaps they could fill a void by doubling as life guards?

Somehow I just can't imagine Big Joke in a pair of budgie smugglers ????

5 hours ago, Oziex1 said:

How does this help anything?

Lifeguards in disguise!

1 hour ago, Old Croc said:

Perhaps they could fill a void by doubling as life guards?

 

It would just concern me whose voids they might be filling...

 

I am sure I read on TV recently that Tourist Police had to meet specific criteria, one of them being they had to be under 45 years of age. 

 

Unless this is a photo from the archives, it appears two out of the three don't meet that criteria. 

47 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

 

Somehow I just can't imagine Big Joke in a pair of budgie smugglers ????

He'll probably turn up arrest the coconut smugglers:

 

BANGKOK, 24 October 2018 (NNT) – The government plans to put coconuts on the state price control list in a move to end the domestic coconut price slump. 
The move is also expected to help curb coconut smuggling. Violators are subject to five years in jail, a fine of up to 100,000 baht, or both.

Mel Gibson wannabes

4 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Lifeguards in disguise!

The rotund condition of some RTP members would have well intentioned tourists trying to have them swim back out to sea.