Bangkok cops get serious about polluters

[snoop1130]

Bangkok cops get serious about polluters

By The Nation

 

 

Motorists whose vehicles exhaust is contributing to the PM2.5 dust pollution that has Bangkok wheezing can expect to get leaned on more heavily by the Royal Thai Police.

 

Deputy Commissioner-General Pol General Suwat Chaengyotsuk on Wednesday (January 15) unveiled six measures the cops will direct against offenders behind the wheel, in factories and on construction sites, and in forests if they’re caught burning anything.

 

The six measures:

 

• Checkpoints set up with the departments of Land Transport and Pollution Control around Bangkok and vicinity daily from 10am to 2pm and a rapid-deployment force to nab drivers of vehicles spewing excessive exhaust fumes.

 

• Strict and more frequent inspections of public transit stations, bus stations and companies where trucks are used.

 

• Asking construction site operators to keep adjacent road surfaces in good condition so that traffic flow isn’t affected.

 

• Strict enforcement of laws against polluters, such as factory operators and anyone burning garbage or cropland scrub.

 

• Better traffic control to ease congestion, including a ban on parking at the sides of main roads.

 

• Encouraging motorists to turn off their engines while parked and to regularly check their vehicle’s condition.

 

Suwat said citizens can report vehicles with foul exhaust emissions via the hotline 1599 or the Facebook page “Social Media Royal Thai Police” (ศูนย์โซเชียลมีเดีย ศปก.ตร). In the Bangkok area, reports can also be made via hotline 1197 and Facebook page ศูนย์ควบคุมและสั่งการจราจร-บก.02.

 

Police were also due to open their own PM2.5-monitoring centre at Traffic Police Division headquarters on Wednesday evening.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380604

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-01-15

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[BobbyL]

Yeah, for about a week. 

[Liverpudlian]

Well they gots masks to hide there rip off faces.

[petermik]

10/10 for initiative......2/10 for implementation

[YetAnother]

40 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

unveiled six measures the cops will direct against offenders

wont matter a bit; fines, that wont get paid, offenders continue and likely even smiling about it (' i am more clever than the police')

[OneMoreFarang]

So what's the fine? 100B or 200B cash?

[RotBenz8888]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

a ban on parking at the sides of main roads

Right...half of Bangkoks all cars are parked on sides of roads.

[trainman34014]

''Leaned on more heavily' means more tea money then !

[SoilSpoil]

Maybe the poluce in my village didnt receive this message, as some fires were burning right next to the station.

[Hayduke]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Commissioner-General Pol General Suwat Chaengyotsuk on Wednesday (January 15) unveiled six measures the cops will direct against offenders

 

Bangkok cops are always serious about new ways to make money...

 

The six new moneymakers....

 

1. A new checkpoint excuse to extort payoffs from drivers with real and/or imagined violations.

2. A new opportunity to extort payoffs from public transit stations, bus stations and trucking  

   companies.

3. Another excuse to find real and/or imagined fault with construction sites and extort payoffs.

4. A new, trendy, and open-ended excuse to extort payoffs from just about everyone.

5. An excuse to extort payoffs from everyone who parks a car.

6. A "Green" sounding excuse to extort money from any driver with a vehicle of any type.

 

The police are going to love this.

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by Hayduke

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Yeah, for about a week. 

That's very generous... I would anticipate it ending before lunchtime the same day!

[RocketDog]

14 hours ago, YetAnother said:

wont matter a bit; fines, that wont get paid, offenders continue and likely even smiling about it (' i am more clever than the police')

This is a common and understandable response and too often accurate. Environmentally the Kingdom is still a young country. As with any young person, one must try to teach and hope for the best outcome. 

 

I choose to think that if they are aware enough to formulate such measures then there is certainly at least a chance that implementation, to some degree, will follow. 

 

Even in the 3 years I've been here I've seen efforts made and improvements achieved; I see a lot more helmets being worn on cycles fur instance. I have seen a number of speed camera checkpoints with offenders pulled over. That can only be good regardless of the brown envelopes exchanged. The current plastic bag issue is still a mess, but is the right step toward environmental awareness. 

 

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. 

 

However, I will studiously avoid a comparison of aggravations versus joys I experience here because it would be depressing and counter-productive. On balance I still plan to live here a long time. 

 

Onward thru the fog. 

[RocketDog]

59 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

 

Bangkok cops are always serious about new ways to make money...

 

The six new moneymakers....

 

1. A new checkpoint excuse to extort payoffs from drivers with real and/or imagined violations.

2. A new opportunity to extort payoffs from public transit stations, bus stations and trucking  

   companies.

3. Another excuse to find real and/or imagined fault with construction sites and extort payoffs.

4. A new, trendy, and open-ended excuse to extort payoffs from just about everyone.

5. An excuse to extort payoffs from everyone who parks a car.

6. A "Green" sounding excuse to extort money from any driver with a vehicle of any type.

 

The police are going to love this.

 

If you want to look at any law or regulation that way then it's clear that Thailand has learned from western countries just exactly how to suck eggs: extracting as much of value as possible without actually breaking the shell. 

 

America has brought this art to a perfection that most countries can only envy. 

[yokat]

It's funny to see this now because since a few days ago a new street food stall has started operating 100 meters from Thonglor's police station. They grill fish and a ton of smoke comes from it.

[tomauasia]

Extorted and let go same as a hooker

[30la]

Open your windows and your eyes, the fires can be seen from far away, even during the day!
The biggest destroyers of our air are the factories especially those of cane sugar! What are you going to do?

[SoilSpoil]

34 minutes ago, RocketDog said:

This is a common and understandable response and too often accurate. Environmentally the Kingdom is still a young country. As with any young person, one must try to teach and hope for the best outcome. 

 

I choose to think that if they are aware enough to formulate such measures then there is certainly at least a chance that implementation, to some degree, will follow. 

 

Even in the 3 years I've been here I've seen efforts made and improvements achieved; I see a lot more helmets being worn on cycles fur instance. I have seen a number of speed camera checkpoints with offenders pulled over. That can only be good regardless of the brown envelopes exchanged. The current plastic bag issue is still a mess, but is the right step toward environmental awareness. 

 

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. 

 

However, I will studiously avoid a comparison of aggravations versus joys I experience here because it would be depressing and counter-productive. On balance I still plan to live here a long time. 

 

Onward thru the fog. 

In the 17 years that Im here, the country went from dirty to filthy. With the current leaders, the country is running backwards like a headless chicken. 

 

 

[KhunKenAP]

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL,. Help I can't get up, laughing too much.

 

[unamazedloso]

Why the big charade? Stop the dam farmers first!!!! why is the government protecting such idiodic behavior. It doesnt benefit the government or the people. This is a nationl disgrace this fake news spreading. Yeh, diesels suk but what about the main cause? "Lazy Farmers"

[ThaiFelix]

Up my way the farmers have been told to stop burning sugar cane and the buyers are paying a reduced price if their are signs that the cane has been scorched. 

 

The solution:  Farmers are removing the leaves from the cane, building bonfires and burning the leaves separately!

 

At the bottom of my property there is a khlong.  The neighbours on the other side of the khlong refuse to pay the 200 bht a year for rubbish collection so dont have a bin.  Similarly a restaurant up the road, on the same khlong, and financed by a farang, has no bin.

 

The solution:  They throw all their rubbish in the khlong.

 

The local tessabarn, who collect these bins, if you have one, take all the rubbish to a shallow landfill outside the next town and burn it! 

 

The same tessabarn has a night market every Thursday on a large playing field next to it and attended by 100's of locals.  There is never a rubbish bin to be found anywhere there.  If you drive by the next morning you will see approx 20 workers walking around picking up rubbish that hasnt already blown away and is by now decorating the local sois.  No point in talking to the new tessabarn boss, we dont have one.  He was kicked out because he was corrupt, just as his predecessor was!

 

And so it goes!

 

[Assurancetourix]

10 minutes ago, unamazedloso said:

"Lazy Farmers"

 

It is unfortunately more complicated than that.

and then treat the farmers as lazy, it is a job that does not support this kind of person;
we see that you don't know this business.

 

If the farmers burn their sugar cane crops it is to facilitate the cutting which is generally done by hand.

Not to burn is to complicate manual cutting;
Cutting the cane with a machine is possible but it is beyond the financial reach of most farmers when you know the purchase price per tonne;

 

because it is not only the machine or the cutters to pay; there is the transporter and also the workers who will pack and deploy the canes in the truck so that he can transport as much as possible without getting lost on the way;
and it gets lost, you just have to drive along the roads taken by these trucks to see it.

 

Are you ready to pay more for your sugar, your gasoline and a lot of other products that you consume every day?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Re the OP article, is it April 1 already???   

[Chazar]

16 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Yeah, for about a week. 

as long  as  that?

[Chazar]

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Re the OP article, is it April 1 already???   

everyday

[SoilSpoil]

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

 

Are you ready to pay more for your sugar, your gasoline and a lot of other products that you consume every day?

Are the food giants (5 evil corps) willing to cut their prodit margins?

[Assurancetourix]

3 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Are the food giants (5 evil corps) willing to cut their prodit margins?

We are talking about the farmers who burn their crops; stay ahead

[NoshowJones]

18 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Yeah, for about a week. 

A week?????????? A 24 hour crackdown.

Edited January 16, 2020 by possum1931

[NoshowJones]

17 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So what's the fine? 100B or 200B cash?

Depends on how the tea money kitty is.

[SoilSpoil]

31 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

We are talking about the farmers who burn their crops; stay ahead

Think ahead, you mean? The big question is why farmers burn their fields. All to do with profit margins of the big retailers. If farmers would get an honest price, maybe they would not need to destroy the soil and air. Follow the money.

[brianthainess]

Yawn ????