(I searched a few minutes in the forum, if it's already in the news just close)

 

Surachet Hakphan ("Big Joke") will be moved to police headquarters.

His Facebook profile is closed.

 

Source is in Thai and from a reliable member of a German language forum.

No hard facts yet except that he didn't appear for the usual photo op's etc.

Developing story.

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by KhunBENQ

following .

Fake news gets 7 years

Multiple Thai news sources replicate the news.

Facebook site closed:

https://www.facebook.com/SurachateHakparn/

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by KhunBENQ

1 minute ago, KhunBENQ said:

Multiple Thai news sources replicate the news.

I wonder whose toes he stepped on

interesting development if true. But credit to the guy, he deserves a rest from all of the work he has been reported as doing.

 

Again, if true,  many Nigerians, Burmese, Cambodians, Laos and Indians, to name but 5 nationalities, will be partying tonight ????

7 hours ago, ThaiBunny said:

I wonder whose toes he stepped on

many folks at immigration offices countrywide losing out on TIPS perhaps.....

I always said this was going to happen but I expected with a new government.

 

if true , good news already unless he is getting promoted to even higher post 

5 minutes ago, ThaiBunny said:

I wonder whose toes he stepped on

Everyone’s , including peers under his command 

He performed his duty yesterday morning but did not appear at a scheduled press conference at 15h with chief of immigration region 3 (arrest of foreigners).

Just now, BestB said:

I always said this was going to happen but I expected with a new government.

 

if true , good news already unless he is getting promoted to even higher post 

Prime Minister would be suitable.

4 minutes ago, ThaiBunny said:

I wonder whose toes he stepped on

Many, too many, farang steps that's  for sure ...

i'm surprised, i thought he was getting attention for

the purpose of being this governments poster boy

1 minute ago, BestB said:

unless he is getting promoted to even higher post

Normally this would not happen as a surprise move?

Bad move, he was actually doing a great job !

Just now, KhunBENQ said:

Normally this would not happen as a surprise move?

Normally tourist police captain also does not become lt general and chief in less than 2 years????

 

naturally only a guess at this stage but there can only be 2 choices , either up or down.

 

as they say the higher you go the harder you fall, but ....... let’s wait and see ????

4 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

Prime Minister would be suitable.

Nah , minister of defence to start with ????

his twitter account is down too (assuming this was his real one..)

 

something definitely up

 

https://twitter.com/hakparn

 

usually looks like this:

 

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8TXTjH67uOYJ:https://twitter.com/hakparn%3Flang%3Den+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=th&client=safari

 

 

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by GeorgeCross

and the Immigration FB page: https://www.facebook.com/immigration1178

4 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

and the Immigration FB page: https://www.facebook.com/immigration1178

Any other links for those who don't have facebook?

13 minutes ago, BestB said:

Nah , minister of defence to start with ????

Or maybe on second thoughts his policy of good guys in, bad guys out has back fired ?  Let's face it is the bad guys, the boiler room scammers, retirement visa agents and general criminals that were perhaps wealthy enough to pay the biggest bribes, whereas the good guys amongst us could not.  This has hit the pocket far up the RTP tree perhaps so a new man needs to be brought in who will reverse that policy.

 

So the next phase could well be "Bad guys in, good guys out" ????

Yeah I heard about this a few hours back. It's apparently being reported on Thai news on the radio. Not 100% confirmed though by the looks of things. It's here but all in Thai:

https://www.sanook.com/news/7736530/

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by Hawkman
Add more info

1 minute ago, Vacuum said:

Any other links for those who don't have facebook?

It just shows this.

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

It just shows this.

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1 minute ago, geoffbezoz said:

Or maybe on second thoughts his policy of good guys in, bad guys out has back fired ?  Let's face it is the bad guys, the boiler room scammers, retirement visa agents and general criminals that were perhaps wealthy enough to pay the biggest bribes, whereas the good guys amongst us could not.  This has hit the pocket far up the RTP tree perhaps so a new man needs to be brought in who will reverse that policy.

 

So the next phase could well be "Bad guys in, good guys out" ????

Spot on. Bad guys have the money, have the contacts, the non-morals to get past this. Whereas some people who do a lot of good, may not have the financial resources, so get penalized.

Facebook, instagram, twitter all show some "not exist" messages.

11 minutes ago, Hawkman said:

Spot on. Bad guys have the money, have the contacts, the non-morals to get past this. Whereas some people who do a lot of good, may not have the financial resources, so get penalized.

 

and those that do a lot of good and also have the money have been sidelining it and making serious 'plan b' enquiries until the situation calms down/improves

 

 

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by GeorgeCross

Misc. sources say there was an "express notice" about his move.

Just that a copy of that has not been made public.

(remember it's a long weekend)

2 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Misc. sources say there was an "express notice" about his move.

Just that a copy of that has not been made public.

(remember it's a long weekend)

whats an 'express notice'?

37 minutes ago, ThaiBunny said:

I wonder whose toes he stepped on

He gets far more media publicity than PM Prayut. Perhaps he has stepped on the biggest toes of all.

Not a smart move to outshine the PM in the media exposure stakes.