No holidays for Pattaya cops at Xmas and New Year

[webfact]

No holidays for Pattaya cops at Xmas and New Year

 

Picture: Line Today

 

The head of Pattaya's tourist police has spoken. 

 

Lt-Col Piyapong Ensarn told the men and women under his command on Saturday that all leave is cancelled from December 24th to January 2nd. 

 

The message was clear - tourist safety and convenience was more important than time off. 

 

Lt-Col told Line Today that his men were ready for every eventuality and would be teaming up with other sections of the force and local authority to make sure that the expected influx of visitors was safe and sound. 

 

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[bluesofa]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

Lt-Col told Line Today that his men were ready for every eventuality and would be teaming up with other sections of the force and local authority to make sure that the expected influx of visitors was safe and sound. 

I'm guessing that in a previous life he must have worked for TAT?

[Xaos]

They went bananas with checkpoints. On every corned

[Henrik Andersen]

Wow so they have to work almost 2 weeks and go holiday 50 weeks go job 

but again what they actually do when they on duty??? 

 

[jacko45k]

10 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Wow so they have to work almost 2 weeks and go holiday 50 weeks go job 

but again what they actually do when they on duty??? 

 

Oh they make lots of money!

[mok199]

Stand down boys and girls...go round up some Ugandan women or shake down some young Koreans on rented scooters..

[natway09]

These boys will make the motorcyclists obey the road rules ??   555

Sorry, still on a roll here

[dcsw53]

I can confirm this. They were hard at work this morning on Sukhumvit shaking down drivers.
Unfortunately i was giving my Thai golfing partner a lift home and the man in brown found himself having to supply his personal details, rather than me having to give a brown envelope. not going to be such a merry Xmas for him !

[balo]

So Christmas will be a pain in the xxx for all the foreigners on bikes, you have been warned. 

 

[fullcave]

It's not a Thai holiday anyway. Let them go for Chinese new year instead. 

[Jip99]

7 minutes ago, fullcave said:

It's not a Thai holiday anyway. Let them go for Chinese new year instead. 

 

New Year has always been Thai national holiday......as is Songkran, and of course Chinese New Year is celebrated. 

 

Christmas is nothing for Thais, a normal working day - and school day.

 

[Hoppyone]

6 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Wow so they have to work almost 2 weeks and go holiday 50 weeks go job 

but again what they actually do when they on duty??? 

 

No time for English lessons

[unamazedloso]

almost 2weeks work. but what classifies as work? couple hours sleeping, couple for lunch, couple for phone gazing, 30 min fines. 

I sorta feel sorry for them but atleast they will harass all the tourists and drive away more tourists from coming back so they wont need to work next year.

[LazySlipper]

I just love how Thais get into the Xmas spirit and want the same holidays as back in the west despite the fact that they are Buddhists and that their New Year is not on the same date and that Xmas is not even one of their holidays.

 

I do have a little leniency for the New Year though. Let some coppers have 1/2 a day off...????

[mikebell]

Meanwhile the war on illegal taxi-driving is put on the back burner.

[sammieuk1]

Tis the season to be earning tra la la la la la????