Don't impersonate us, says RTP spokesman - you can get thrown in jail if you do!

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

INN reported the comments of police spokesman Pol Col Siriwat Deephor yesterday.

 

This followed a case of a man in Don Mueang who was suspected of impersonating a cop and firing in the air after a road rage incident.

 

Siriwat said that impersonating a cop was wrong for many reasons. 

 

For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her. 

 

Not to mention trying to extort money, bullying people or annoying them. 

 

In fact doing anything to damage the exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police was a strict no-no. 

 

All sorts of articles and rules were in place such as 146, 108, the emergency decree and number 6.

 

These variously allow for prison terms of anywhere between three months and ten years as well as 2,000 baht fines. 

 

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[mtls2005]

Uhm, the discharging of a firearm seems to be the larger problem here.

 

 

 

 

[sammieuk1]

Leave the impersonating police to us we are good at it ????

[Phuketshrew]

As the Chinese dude, Hu Shot Kop, will confirm, it's very often difficult to distinguish between a real cop and a fake one.

[trainman34014]

''The Exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police'' !       What Planet is he living on ?

[kynikoi]

Fair enough - three years in jail plus any offenses committed during the wearing of the uniform.

 

An equally problematic issue seems to be rogue cops and regular officers not in uniform yet on duty.

[Shuya]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

Not to mention trying to extort money, bullying people or annoying them.

Yeah, leave it to the real cops

[colinneil]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

Not to mention trying to extort money, bullying people or annoying them. 

 

In fact doing anything to damage the exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police was a strict no-no. 

Siriwat you missed your vocation in life, you should have been on the stage, doing a 1 man comedy routine.

Not to mention extorting money, a hell of a lot of the so called genuine cops do that every day.

Of course damaging the exemplary name of the R.T.P., please stop it, your lot do that almost daily.

[ChipButty]

People always ask me why I live here 

[canthai55]

26 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Uhm, the discharging of a firearm seems to be the larger problem here.

It was a BB gun - not a firearm

[kotsak]

18 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

As the Chinese dude, Hu Shot Kop, will confirm, it's very often difficult to distinguish between a real cop and a fake one.

or a real but sinister one ????

[Somtamnication]

"For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her."

 

Jesus, that is an emergency. That is the only reason I lock up my wife at home while I am away - TO NOT  GET IMPRESSED by the boys in brown.

[fishtank]

RTP impersonate Police Officers every day.

They are just not very good at it.

[Mr Meeseeks]

23 minutes ago, kynikoi said:

Fair enough - three years in jail plus any offenses committed during the wearing of the uniform.

 

An equally problematic issue seems to be rogue cops and regular officers not in uniform yet on duty.

I've been hassled a few times on Sukhumvit in Bangkok by Thai men that fit this description. 

 

Once there were three of them that stopped me when I was on the way to get a taxi at 2am, they seemed drunk, and wanted to search me. I refused to comply as they would not show any ID, it looked as if they were about to get nasty until a Thai friend pulled up in a car and gave me a lift home. That seemed to scare them off from whatever they were attempting.

 

 

[Justgrazing]

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her. 

 

Damn I'll have to leave the SWAT black kit in the wardrobe and leap off the top without it now .. 

[edwinchester]

"For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her."

 

Why? I love women in uniform.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Ayh shucks  but Iv'e  just spent  2000 on this  outfit!  Now  what 

[Rampant Rabbit]

43 minutes ago, webfact said:

For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her. 

They give the most bizzarre  examples I've ever seen, just shows what he does in his  spare  time though!

[Bluespunk]

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

Siriwat said that impersonating a cop was wrong for many reasons. 

 

For example it was illegal to go and chat up a woman wearing a uniform and trying to impress her. 

 

Not to mention trying to extort money, bullying people or annoying them. 

 

In fact doing anything to damage the exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police was a strict no-no. 

And reserved entirely for the bib alone

[Rampant Rabbit]

34 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

''The Exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police'' !       What Planet is he living on ?

Planet Number 7 after Saturn Before Neptune

[Excel]

How exactly can you impersonate an RTP person ?   Go outside only after 8 am. ? Go off duty when it gets dark?  Try not to help the general public ? other then wearing a tacky uniform with even more tacky plastic medals it must be quite difficult. Although I suppose going out to a bar and drinking alcohol , which should not be served currently with your mia noi might convince people you were a policemen I suppose. ????????????

[ikke1959]

you get as you deserve..  If they did their job day and night, instead of playing with their cellphones  and everything else Thailand would be better and they would be respected... but now.........comedy capers 

[kynikoi]

35 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

I've been hassled a few times on Sukhumvit in Bangkok by Thai men that fit this description. 

 

Once there were three of them that stopped me when I was on the way to get a taxi at 2am, they seemed drunk, and wanted to search me. I refused to comply as they would not show any ID, it looked as if they were about to get nasty until a Thai friend pulled up in a car and gave me a lift home. That seemed to scare them off from whatever they were attempting.

 

 

 

Lemme guess

 

Thong Lor or lower Sukhumvit.

[thequietman]

So .......... I'm goin to jail now, am I ???????

 

[holy cow cm]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

In fact doing anything to damage the exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police was a strict no-no. 

Seriously? That's right. They have no problem doing this on their own having no need for outside help. But on the fair side I have met  few genuinely nice owns over the years, so not all rotten apples.

[klauskunkel]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

In fact doing anything to damage the exemplary name of the Royal Thai Police

The only ones doing damage to the RTP name is the RTP themselves. They do it consistently, frequently and stupidly. I doubt they could find members of the public doing any worse.

 

And they are more concerned about their name than their behavior. As always, with these government authority types, it's only about the packaging, never about the substance. Here is a concept for them which requires effort and will therefore be ignored: Improve your behavior, and you will improve your name...

[PETERTHEEATER]

Looks like the end of the road for Ronald McDonald......

[johnnybgood]

Nobody can impersonate these guys........................

 

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

Firing your gun into the air because of road rage? That sounds like a very good RTP impersonation to me.

[CharlieH]

"All sorts of articles and rules were in place such as 146, 108, the emergency decree and number 6."

 

Many other laws etc that arent enforced either ! Dont just quote them, try actually enforcing the law and do your damn job ! Might save a few thousand lives on the roads here for a start.