New Pattaya police chief praises the "fast response" of his "hero" officers

[webfact]

New Pattaya police chief praises the "fast response" of his "hero" officers

 

Picture: Sanook

 

The new Pattaya police chief Pol Col Prawit Chorseng praised officers under his command after a Thai man was revived in a gas station toilets. 

 

He hailed their fast response and resourcefulness. 

 

Two police sergeants are set to be honored after saving the life of a 35-40 year old man. Two members of the public also helped restore the man's pulse after he fell unconscious in the toilets of the Bang Jak station at the central Pattaya intersection. 

 

The man is out of danger and recovering in hospital, relatives told Sanook. 

 

The police heroes - as Sanook called them - were Senior Sgt Majors Srisawat Thiwongsa, a traffic cop, and investigator Jaturong Kreethawet who were quickly on the scene.

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Pol Col Prawit - who took over from Pol Col Apichai Krobpetch recently - said that these were fine examples to other men on the force and they would be honored for their actions. 

 

He said that since he came to head up the Pattaya force he had instilled in his men an ethic of fast response, resourcefulness, awareness and problem solving.

 

He was determined that his men would help and assist foreign and Thai tourists in particular.

 

The members of the public who helped in the CPR were not named. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-04-09

[bluesofa]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Two members of the public also helped restore the man's pulse after he fell unconscious in the toilets of the Bang Jak station at the central Pattaya intersection. 

Perhaps something to do with a foul odour in the toilets, hampered by lack of ventilation.

 

[champers]

Medals for tbe 2 BIB and well done them  .......  and the 2 foreigners don't even get a mention. They must have been in the way.

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, champers said:

Medals for tbe 2 BIB and well done them  .......  and the 2 foreigners don't even get a mention. They must have been in the way.

They'll probably be charged with causing the odour, making the guy fall unconscious.

 

 

[Benmart]

Glad the man was revived and hopefully fully recovered. I look forward to any improvement in police services, particulary traffic enforcement, bus chaos, taxis that don't use meters, songtaews that operate as taxis and are not licensed as such, scooter rentals that have commandered public roads and on and on. This new Chief has many opportunities, and not just the usual photo ops.

[observer90210]

One often ironozes against the Thai Police, starting with myself, on various laughable issues.

But here, there are 2 officers who deserve full honours and who can be proud to wear their uniforms. Well done boys, keep up the good work.

 

But it is wrong to use these 2 amazing and remarkable officers and try to do any propaganda on their backs, as obviously there is a lot to clean up in the Thai cop house.

[CGW]

20 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

who can be proud to wear their uniforms.

You may have gone a little to far in with your exuberance with the above statement, I know its hard to find "positives" at times but no need to go overboard ???? 

[Xaos]

In my country cop emergency heart massage is normal thing. In Thailand its heroic thing. Why they heroes? Normal thing to do really. 

[observer90210]

1 hour ago, CGW said:

You may have gone a little to far in with your exuberance with the above statement, I know its hard to find "positives" at times but no need to go overboard ???? 

overboard you say ? .. so what's wrong ? you don't know how to swim in a stormy mind maybe ? ????

p.s. welcome to my ignore list as this is your second troll response in less then 1 hour today ????

 

Edited April 9, 2019 by observer90210

[CGW]

47 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

p.s. welcome to my ignore list as this is your second troll response in less then 1 hour today ????

O dear ???? reminded me of my ex wife, spent a lot of time on her ignore list.

OK, I agree to go on your "ignore" list, but remember you can remove me any-time if you want to indulge in some light-hearted banter and consider somebody elses POV, apart from your own. ????

[BestB]

Give credit where it’s due, well done and well deserved praise 

[Rimmer]

Some bickering posts and replies have been removed

[Inn Between]

7 hours ago, champers said:

Medals for tbe 2 BIB and well done them  .......  and the 2 foreigners don't even get a mention. They must have been in the way.

What two foreigners are you talking about? I must have missed something because I read "two members of the public", and considering the VAST majority of people walking around in Thailand are Thai, I wouldn't assume they were foreigners -- unless there's something i'm missing. I didn't see a link offering a full(er) story. 

 

The only mention of foreigners that I saw was the police chief's thought that "He was determined that his men would help and assist foreign and Thai tourists in particular."  But I thought that was a weird thing to say. Why wouldn't they be obliged to help anyone who is in distress equally, rather than tourists in particular? Are they going to assess a situation with someone's life in danger and decide to ignore it or give it a lower priority because they determine the person isn't a tourist?  

Edited April 9, 2019 by Inn Between

[chama]

Always have to be suspicious when you hear RTP and hero in the same sentence. Normally they are focused on rescuing thick envelopes.

[myshem]

Why did they move Apichai ? where is he now ?

[Basil B]

A few years ago we were knocking the lack of first aid knowledge of Thai's, very few Thai's knew about CPR.

 

What difference a few years makes, now let's roll out a programme of AED's placement in the communities.

Edited April 9, 2019 by Basil B

[jacko45k]

6 hours ago, myshem said:

Why did they move Apichai ? where is he now ?

The top guys get moved around to supposedly inhibit embedded corruption.

[Radar501]

As the new chief at Pattaya Police Station, Colonel Chorseng is more politician than cop, so he would be a skilled public relations spin doctor. A single good news article like this may be seen to balance out the endless accounts of incompetence, bribery, protection rackets etc etc by the local BIB.

 

Maybe the new boss has arrived with honorable intentions to clean up the station's issues of endemic corruption.

 

Nice story though.

Edited April 10, 2019 by Rimmer

[Cadbury]

15 hours ago, CGW said:

O dear ???? reminded me of my ex wife, spent a lot of time on her ignore list.

OK, I agree to go on your "ignore" list, but remember you can remove me any-time if you want to indulge in some light-hearted banter and consider somebody elses POV, apart from your own. ????

Welcome to Observer90201's "Ignore List". I have been a proud member of the club now for some time. Anyone else wishing to join should find it easy as he appears to take things very personally and doesn't seem to enjoy friendly repartee with fellow members.

[geoffbezoz]

20 hours ago, Kim J said:

Well that is a refreshing change. When you see Pattaya Police and ''fast response'' mentioned together, one could be excused of automatically thinking someone was racing to be the first to find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Fast is a relative term. In the life of a Dragon Fly that survives 24 hours then fast would be less than 1 minute. However for a shark, around 200 million years fast could be a century.

[jacko45k]

30 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

However for a shark, around 200 million years fast could be a century.

So you read somewhere that sharks have been around for 200 million years and you believe them to be the same ones?

Edited April 10, 2019 by jacko45k

[geoffbezoz]

Just now, jacko45k said:

So you read somewhere that sharks have bee around for 200 million years and you believe them to be the same ones?

Never mentioned anything about a Bee, how long do they live for ?

[essox essox]

22 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Perhaps something to do with a foul odour in the toilets, hampered by lack of ventilation.

 

is it not part of their job to HELP anyone in distress ??

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, geoffbezoz said:

Never mentioned anything about a Bee,

Neither did I when you posted, are you on shark time too?