Police spokesman denies Thai borders are porous - those who sneaked in to face serious charges

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A Royal Thai Police (RTP) spokesman speaking on behalf of immigration denied that Thailand's borders were porous.

 

Pol Maj-Gen Achayon Kraithong also denied media reports that there was not enough manpower to keep the country safe from people sneaking across its borders because they were dealing with the anti-government protests in Bangkok.

 

Those responsible for each were completely separate. 

 

He said that ever since the pandemic great work had been done to seal the country and there were patrols 24 hours a day.

 

However, the fact remains that several people have brought Covid into Thailand after crossing from Myanmar in the north. 

 

He said that there won't be any more - for sure!

 

Those who had managed to sneak in would be charged once they had completed their quarantine. 

 

They face 2,000 baht fines for contravening immigration requirements. But face much more serious sanction for breaking emergency decree laws and Covid specific health requirements. 

 

These are 2 years jail and up to 40,000 baht and 1 year jail and up to 100,000 baht fine respectively for the two more serious charges.

 

The Maj-Gen claimed that Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysian borders were all equally well sealed. 

 

He said that those who had aided and abetted illegal entry will also be charged. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

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7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police spokesman denies Thai borders are porous

He's having a laugh, so many cross either assisted or unassisted illegally !

December 7th must be 'fake news day' with some of the articles today !

Edited December 7, 20205 yr by Thaiwrath

2,416 km, that's how long is Thailand and Burma border... Been pours as a cheap sieve, and hundreds ware/are doing their way over this so called 'border' with authorities turning blind eye and now it came back to bite them in the derriere...

"He said that there won't be any more - for sure!"

 

120 percent? 

 

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police spokesman denies

This is where I stopped reading. 

Edited December 7, 20205 yr by rkidlad

2,414 km to go.....

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

A Royal Thai Police (RTP) spokesman speaking on behalf of immigration denied that Thailand's borders were porous.

Saving FACE before being sent to an inactive post it appears.  Calling the Deputy PM a liar in other words has not been so good for the careers of others.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Police spokesman denies Thai borders are porous

Police here are Best comedians in thailand,even better than anutin

1 hour ago, webfact said:

those who sneaked in to face serious charges

 

Double-secret probation.

 

1 hour ago, spiekerjozef said:

2,414 km to go.....

 

Meh. Assume 99% of the people come through fewer than ten small areas. Same same for drugs.

 

I mean if the RTA and RTP and elite Border Police can't control the borders then, well bring in the RTN.

 

They seem to be able to protect sites in Bangkok from pesky school children. 

 

 

 

 

Didn't Anutin say that everyone who had crossed the border should present for tests and quarantine.

 

Now the Police General (who has failed to control the borders) is telling them that they all will face charges.

 

Left and right hands...

14 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Didn't Anutin say that everyone who had crossed the border should present for tests and quarantine.

 

Now the Police General (who has failed to control the borders) is telling them that they all will face charges.

 

Left and right hands...

I don’t think I’ve seen one instance of the other knowing what the other is doing , their is no team work in govt , they are all mouthpiece and boss 

 

"They face 2,000 baht fines for contravening immigration requirements. But face much more serious sanction for breaking emergency decree laws and Covid specific health requirements. 

 

These are 2 years jail and up to 40,000 baht and 1 year jail and up to 100,000 baht fine respectively for the two more serious charges."

 

Thats laughable when you see FB videos posted of WS establishments ie. Pin-Up and Insomnia, the majority of bars and GC's where no social distancing or mask wearing is to be seen, apart from some staff members 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that there won't be any more - for sure!

OK, would he bet his house on that ?, if gambling

was legal in Thailand of course.

regards Worgeordie

I’ve done a lot of hiking in the area around Soppong, often with a local guide. Part of the reason to take a guide was to make sure I didn’t accidentally stray into Myanmar and get shot at, either by border patrol units or drugs smugglers.
The guide (I think he was Karen) told me it was very easy to cross the border from Thailand into Myanmar and vice versa, and no one knows how many people do it every single day without being noticed or stopped.

After a long time i had to sign in. What a joke statement of Rtp. Had a good laugh. I witnessed opositee this statement. The border patrol guy was sleeping and if there was 100 people passing him he would not know. To be safe i woke him, ask if i can have walk, said no problem and thats it. The other, legal crossing  not far away you just walk to Myanmar buy booze and walk back. No passport or document chack. Nothing.

I think the going rate is about 6,000B to be smuggled in. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that there won't be any more - for sure!

Has he put his Job on the Line with this statement

 

there are whole towns built on the boarder where people wander across willy nilly all day.  Often carrying bats and pangolins no doubt!  

This spokesman is just another blabbermouth in a uniform.    If the border was not porous, how did all these people 'sneak' in???   As we know, they did sneak in, so we know that the border IS porous!!!!   

If he was honest he would say that we will do our best because he & I know

it is impossible to eradicate. The barbed wire is, maybe 400 Km ,, that leaves over 2,000 km 

Deny, deflect, claim a misunderstanding and return to old business. An official who takes responsibility is as rare as one who is jailed for criminal behavior.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A Royal Thai Police (RTP) spokesman speaking on behalf of immigration denied that Thailand's borders were porous.

Well I guess he has to say that.

1 hour ago, Cake Monster said:

Has he put his Job on the Line with this statement

 

I think he's trying to save it.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

A Royal Thai Police (RTP) spokesman speaking on behalf of immigration denied that Thailand's borders were porous

Oh really!!! This is a photo of the typical border country between Burma and Thailand in the Mae Sai/Doi Tung area:-

 

5 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

2,414 km to go.....

Razor wire and not a pair of gloves in sight. They are just posing not erecting.

My "friend" walked in over 7 years ago - no passport, so no immigration costs - lives in BK working online - not me btw - I left legally 

Looks like a scene from any Bangkok soi ????

 

That's rather like saying the BiB don't take bribes.

I did a border run in Mai Sot a couple years ago. When I was walking across the bridge to get my stamps on the Myanmar side I looked down and  watched men with rafts taking passengers across the river . If the border patrol just went 50 meters from their air conditioned booths, they would have seen the same thing. Also on the same trip my sister in laws X husband was diving. He is the owner of a large shirt manufacturing factory in Mai Sot. He also has passenger vans that he says are for tourists.  We stopped at one of the check points going back to Tak. He had a longer conversation with what looked like the big boss there. I asked my girlfriend at the time what was the problem. She told me to be quite.  Later she said they were talking about the cost of children (brown envelope money)coming with their parents illegaly in his vans. So what I saw was even at the border crossing there is a constant flow of illegal entries.  

Edited December 8, 20205 yr by BTB1977
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2 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

I did a border run in Mai Sot a couple years ago. When I was walking across the bridge to get my stamps on the Myanmar side I looked down and  watched men with rafts taking passengers across the river . If the border patrol just went 50 meters from their air conditioned booths, they would have seen the same thing. Also on the same trip my sister in laws X husband was diving. He is the owner of a large shirt manufacturing factory in Mai Sot. He also has passenger vans that he says are for tourists.  We stopped at one of the check points going back to Tak. He had a longer conversation with what looked like the big boss there. I asked my girlfriend at the time what was the problem. She told me to be quite.  Later she said they were talking about the cost of children (brown envelope money)coming with their parents illegaly in his vans. So what I saw was even at the border crossing there is a constant flow of illegal entries.  

Same here between Thailand and Malaysia, wide open. Common knowledge. When i was in down south with the GF she went across several times. So did anyone that wanted to go.