Police station with no cops - excuses fly in Thai "drama"

[webfact]

Police station with no cops - excuses fly in Thai "drama"

 

Thai caption : Find out where all the cops went to

 

Reaction to a story about a deserted police station is playing out like a Thai soap opera. 

 

Everyone is blaming everyone else as the public demand answers. 

 

The drama began when a post was made online that the Khlong Luang Provincial police station was entirely unmanned. 

 

Someone wanted to report a crime but found only people sleeping at the station - there was not a cop in sight. 

 

Police spokesman Pol Col Krissana Patanacharoen said that Pathum Thani provincial chief Maj-Gen Chayut Marayat had called for an immediate investigation. 

 

He was clearly under pressure from a furious national police chief Gen Chakthip Chaijinda.

 

Now the station chief Pol Col Termphao Siriphuban has come out with a seriies of excuses as long as the arm of the law!

 

 

Thai caption : Station of the missing police

 

He blamed shift changes, illness, an ongoing drugs bust as well as the standard "miscommunication and misunderstanding" line. 

 

He also had time to point a finger at a senior sergeant major under his command whose "straight talking" had led to confusion that was relayed through a clip that was posted online. 

 

Meanwhile local officials, concerned that this was less about misunderstanding and more about dereliction of duty have been holding meetings. 

 

The case looks set to be the "drama" of the week as the Thai press like to refer to such matters, notes Thaivisa. 

 

For many of the public they will see it as a soap opera with everyone from the chief of the RTP down to duty staff as stars of the show.

 

Source: Sanook | Sanook

 

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[rkidlad]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile local officials, concerned that this was less about misunderstanding and more about dereliction of duty

What more needs to be said.

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Everyone is blaming everyone else

Well at least something is normal!

[Reigntax]

It was a fake police station having an inactive break!

[CNXexpat]

Privacy means nothing in Thailand in this case. Everybody can walk in this police station and read the documents they are in the cabinets. I wouldn´t wonder if the computers are running and everybody can check out data. And at the end I like that nobody has stolen the computers and monitors.

[PatOngo]

35 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

And at the end I like that nobody has stolen the computers and monitors.

Who wants Windows XP?

[yellowboat]

What are their operating hours?  Maybe they are closed.  

 

Somehow this comes as no surprise. 

[Happy Grumpy]

37 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Who wants Windows XP?

 

And have to type:

 

admin

12345

 

to log into it.

[Emdog]

Did a Krispy Kreme just open nearby?

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

5 minutes ago, Happy Grumpy said:

 

And have to type:

 

admin

12345

 

to log into it.

 

44 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Who wants Windows XP?

With software from Panthip plaza.

[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

a furious national police chief Gen Chakthip Chaijinda

egg on the face, again... just get used to it

[ChrisY1]

Would an empty police station make much difference to the way they work?

[tifino]

in most other countries, this usually happens to railways!

 - disappearing copper

 

[Redline]

They love excuses, but rarely have legit ones.  They were probably gambling and out with their giks

[MaxLee]

They are all TM 30 hunting across the country.... so come again another day

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

Would an empty police station make much difference to the way they work?

Maybe they are out moonlighting to earn enough to pay for uniforms, cars, guns, etc.

 

[zhounan]

they were behind the bushes playing with their mia noi

[Burma Bill]

Another case of "sleeping policemen"????

[Crossy]

They were all out exercising.

 

Meanwhile, back home a cop-shop open and unattended would be stripped within an hour, cameras or no cameras. Evidently nobody needs Win-XP computers these days.

[kidneyw]

Went to Pattaya police station on a Sunday morning at 8.00am last year.

Deserted except for a couple of girls and guys (who might have been cops in plain clothes).

Was told by one girl, who spoke good English, that the guy said it did not open till 10.00am.

[ubon farang]

Did they check the back rooms to see if they were asleep or playing cards? Best excuse i can see that the boss of the station might get away with is by saying The cops in Thailand are just pure lazy. That would make the head man of the police force take notice because he be thinking this guy is talking about me 

[johnny49r]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

deserted police station

You have to wonder what the last cop out the door was thinking.

I can only guess that this is not the first time people have arrived at the empty station. 

This could only happen in LOS!

[jonclark]

A deserted police station..surely they mean the most efficient police station. I mean forcing people to sort out their own problems without police involvement is the most efficient use of police time?? 

 

[observer90210]

This police station is to the image of the rest of the Thai Police Force....a Big Joke !

[atyclb]

cops or no cops, functionally equivalent

[tallfarang]

Now I understand what they mean when they send someone to an inactive post.

 

[Orton Rd]

Last time we went to the cop shop near Bkk they claimed they were 'busy' but there was one officer asleep over his desk at 3 in the afternoon!

[LomSak27]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

as well as the standard "miscommunication and misunderstanding" line. 

[Assurancetourix]

23 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Who wants Windows XP?

 

I want it ( XP Pro if it's still possible   ) so I can play my old Ages of Empire CD-Rom games ...

[Assurancetourix]

17 hours ago, observer90210 said:

This police station is to the image of the rest of the Thai Police Force....a Big Joke !

Not all the police forces ..

Those who are running after the yaba mules are really working ...to the chagrin of the army, moreover