‘Big Joke’ visits Pattaya to follow up on ‘Smart Safety Zone 4.0’ project

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

 

Pattaya – Police Lieutenant General Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn visited Pattaya this afternoon (September 15th) to follow up on the ‘Smart Safety Zone 4.0’ project.

 

The meeting was held at the Pattaya City Police Station before Big Joke, along with a significant police escort, visited local beaches, and toured Pattaya. Big Joke’s nickname, which he embraces, comes from his ability to set people at ease and make people relax, even those he has arrested, according to those close to him. Big Joke, previously the Immigration Bureau Chief and well-known in Thailand for his stances, especially on foreigners who were on overstay, is now a top-level (Level 9) advisor to the National Police Chief Suwat Jangyodsuk and arguably one of the most important-and powerful-police officers in Thailand.

 

Lieutenant General Surachate told The Pattaya News, “This is a national project which is developing systems in preventing crimes in ‘Smart Cities’. Pattaya is one of those cities, chosen due to its importance to tourism with almost 10 million tourists in 2019 and as part of the Eastern Economic Corridor project. We expect that as borders reopen and tourists return, some criminals may want to take advantage of the situation and foreign visitors. We intend to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

 

“The idea of the project is mainly focused on protecting people by using innovations, technology, and electronic strategies to prevent crimes.” Big Joke stated.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/09/15/big-joke-visits-pattaya-to-follow-up-on-smart-safety-zone-4-0-project/

 

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SSZ 4.0 should include location announcements of the police checkpoint shakedowns in order to help Falangs avoid getting fleeced for infractions they make up on the spot. For example, riding with your passenger footpegs down or up, or headlamp off, or headlamp on, etc.

 

Perhaps paying cops a little bit more would help reduce the need for them to do this.

 

Well, i feel at ease so BJs worked again

Every time they use the word 'smart' in their plans, i get even more worried that things will somehow, go sideways...

2 hours ago, Gold Star said:

SSZ 4.0 should include location announcements of the police checkpoint shakedowns in order to help Falangs avoid getting fleeced for infractions they make up on the spot. For example, riding with your passenger footpegs down or up, or headlamp off, or headlamp on, etc.

 

Perhaps paying cops a little bit more would help reduce the need for them to do this.

 

Oh, you mean they should stop using the laws in situations you are not comfortable with. Ok!

3 hours ago, webfact said:

systems in preventing crimes

Why not start a police force in Pattaya that has a shift system ensuring cops work nights AND weekends? A force that brings down accident figures by active policing; one where fat sergeants don't get to decide whether a crime has been committed if the price is right.

Well, I must have missed:

• ‘Smart Safety Zone 1.0’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 1.1’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 1.2’ project.

and 

• ‘Smart Safety Zone 2.0’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 2.1’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 3.0’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 3.1’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 3.2’ project.
• ‘Smart Safety Zone 3.3’ project.

as well and luckily now can catch up with 

• ‘Smart Safety Zone 4.0’ project.

 

 

 Follow our example tourists in our smart city this is the appropriate clothing with mask to go to the beach if you are smart and wealthy. 

 

 

One might rename this project as "Smart Joke."

Literally.

4.0, 5.0, 6.0, WILL ALL BE THE SAME IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE CRIME RIGHT NOW ALL HE GOT TO DO IS VISIT ALL THE POLICE STATIONS IN THE AREA WHILE THERE NEGOTIATE HIS CUT.????

 

Certainly the mans name " Big Joke " is fitting in the end the joke is going to be on everyone!

Edited September 16, 20214 yr by thailand49

12 hours ago, Gold Star said:

SSZ 4.0 should include location announcements of the police checkpoint shakedowns in order to help Falangs avoid getting fleeced for infractions they make up on the spot. For example, riding with your passenger footpegs down or up, or headlamp off, or headlamp on, etc.

 

Perhaps paying cops a little bit more would help reduce the need for them to do this.

 

For that you have to raise taxes ... no tax, no public services (or at least none worthwhile) ...

18 minutes ago, BusyB said:

For that you have to raise taxes ... no tax, no public services (or at least none worthwhile) ...

Perhaps, but it seems something is wrong with a system that allows those police members higher up to amass a fortune in cars and cash from drug seizures, torture, and killings, while most cops  below earn barely enough cash to put petrol in their scooters and must resort to robbing cash from tourists at checkpoints on the spot for infractions they make up.

13 hours ago, webfact said:

“The idea of the project is mainly focused on protecting people by using innovations, technology, and electronic strategies to prevent crimes.” Big Joke stated.

I see. So it involves electronic surveillance then? All those Covid apps that have been handed out recently probably help alot.

10 hours ago, Gold Star said:

Perhaps, but it seems something is wrong with a system that allows those police members higher up to amass a fortune in cars and cash from drug seizures, torture, and killings, while most cops  below earn barely enough cash to put petrol in their scooters and must resort to robbing cash from tourists at checkpoints on the spot for infractions they make up.

So you think that if you pay the police more money they will stop taking bribes???  ????

13 hours ago, Gold Star said:

Perhaps, but it seems something is wrong with a system that allows those police members higher up to amass a fortune in cars and cash from drug seizures, torture, and killings, while most cops  below earn barely enough cash to put petrol in their scooters and must resort to robbing cash from tourists at checkpoints on the spot for infractions they make up.

 Indeed, but those levels of corruption are endemic in low tax regimes. You don't raise the cash to pay your cops (among others) then the cops will raise it themselves at the 'point of delivery'. And if you're too poor to afford to pay, then tough, either they don't help you if you need it, or you go to jail if you've broken something small and can't pay your way out.

 And the top cops aren't being given fabulously fat and heavy brown envelopes by rich politicians and businesspeople. (Not as a rule anyway, and drug deals or busts etc. are only available to a small circle.)

 The top cops are paid like in a pyramid scheme - the lower ranks raise the cash from the public, take a percentage and have to pass the rest on up the chain. 

 It's like Amway or other multi-level selling systems - you get a handful of fabulously rich types at the top, the rest are just the minions that bring in the dough for small rewards but need to do it to survive.

 What kind of a country makes its cops buy their own GUNS for god's sake? Well, one that doesn't raise tax to pay for those guns. Or motor bikes ... Or any sensible equipment. Or decent wages as motivation to actually investigate things. The list goes on ... Sad really.

 

Edited September 16, 20214 yr by BusyB

3 hours ago, ericthai said:

So you think that if you pay the police more money they will stop taking bribes???  ????

I believe that was part of the solution Hong Kong employed many years ago. Pay peanuts you get monkeys.

It is too ingrained at the top here.....

If the police are as corrupt, and as powerful, as stated - then caution is the operative word...

16 hours ago, ericthai said:

So you think that if you pay the police more money they will stop taking bribes???  ????

 

The whole corrupt culture in the police here needs to change, but we know it never will.  The massive corruption here is why Thailand is not progressing as a nation.