19 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

80,000 Layabouts that would normally be inside Cop Shops playing with their phones or counting Tea Money; do they seriously believe these people are going to actually do some 'work' ?

No!

only 80,000 ? Expect it to go up again this year then

Drafted in from where , they are in Thailand already . Sensation headline grabbing. Extra police deployed on traffic duties would not have had the same impact .

3 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

I wish I had a business renting mobile tents, all those extra police will need a lot of shade to sit in and browse their phones

I was going to say : They are gonna need bigger tents.

 

1 hour ago, pi2005ni said:

Drafted in from where , they are in Thailand already . Sensation headline grabbing. Extra police deployed on traffic duties would not have had the same impact .

North Korea? 

https://youtu.be/zOIR3K8IiLo

Which days are the actual Songkran days that these 80,000  will be on duty?

6 hours ago, KannikaP said:

From where will these 80,000 extra police officers be found please?

The ones moved to 'inactive posts' is my guess

Yes; the roadblocks can bring the roads to a crawl, making it safer for everyone!

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Meanwhile, checkpoints will be set up on these major roads:

 Well I never, how stupid telling the travelling public in advance where checkpoints will be!! Study roadmaps and GPS systems to identify alternative "rat runs" to avoid these check points.

1 hour ago, mrfill said:

The ones moved to 'inactive posts' is my guess

I thought they were all inactive.

8 hours ago, KannikaP said:

From where will these 80,000 extra police officers be found please?

Sleeping behind a desk ?  Sleeping in their patrol cars ?

20 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thairath reported that up to 80,000 officers will be deployed nationwide in a bid to reduce the accident and death toll during a period which is notorious for the large number of road accidents.

Maybe they will take the 50% plus who have no licences off the roads, instead of taking a "fine" and allowing them to continue?

20 hours ago, KannikaP said:

From where will these 80,000 extra police officers be found please?

Maybe from the "Inactive Posts" we keep hearing about ...............LOL

If they had these 80,000 or so police just sitting around playing with their <deleted>s, why didn't they unleash them on the public at Xmas and New Year or is this more <deleted> from 'ol fatty and his cronnies

As others have said, what are they doing the rest of the year?

One of the main problems is that the drivers are drunk before they get behind the wheel, how are the 80000 going to stop that, they're not.

23 hours ago, colinneil said:

ban vehicles on the roads over songkran.

Spot on. And those vehicles should be motorcycles.

 

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Songkran road accidents: Mostly motorcycles

 

1 hour ago, a977 said:

If they had these 80,000 or so police just sitting around playing with their <deleted>s, why didn't they unleash them on the public at Xmas and New Year or is this more <deleted> from 'ol fatty and his cronnies

Because it's holiday time for them as well as the public. Those 80,000 are those who won't be celebrating Songkran this year. Simple innit?

On 3/27/2021 at 8:59 AM, rooster59 said:

Thairath reported that up to 80,000 officers will be deployed nationwide in a bid to reduce the accident and death toll during a period which is notorious for the large number of road accidents.

They must be mobilizing all the police attached to inactive posts to actually do some work for a whole week...

38 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

They must be mobilizing all the police attached to inactive posts to actually do some work for a whole week...

 80,000 mobilized police is a small number compared to the 230,000 they have all together.