A 10,000-baht reward offered to people who report traffic law violators, during the New Year’s “7 Dangerous Days” holiday

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By Nop Meechukhun

 

The Royal Thai Police today, November 30th, announced a 10,000-baht reward for the public who captured traffic violators and reported to relevant officials during the New Year’s “7 Dangerous Days” holiday period.

 

Police General Damrongsak Kittipraphat, deputy national police chief and director of the Public Road Racing Suppression Centre, told the press today that stricter traffic regulations had been implemented since November 15th.

 

A total of 36 videos of traffic wrongdoers were reported by the public during this period that officials stated were “valid”.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/11/30/a-10000-baht-reward-offered-to-people-who-report-traffic-law-violators-during-the-new-years-7-dangerous-days-holiday/

 

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[daveAustin]

Stop turning people into snitches. Get off your A and do your job!

 

 

… krap

[kotsak]

Time to increase my dashcam's SD card storage capacity... ????

[RichardColeman]

To me this stinks of the police wanting to sit on their bottoms in front of a pc screen, stuffing doughnuts and watching public videos letting the public do their graft

[freedomnow]

Covid-1984.

[spidermike007]

More nonsense. 
A while back they had another campaign similar to this and they had posters with phone numbers that you could call to report vehicles that were polluting. We were driving and we saw this truck that was pumping out huge black clouds of smoke and I copied down their license plate and I dialed the number, and handed my phone to my Thai wife and ask her speak to the department. She asked the person who answered the phone what can they do? He ask my wife why are you calling us and she said, well you have phone numbers posted to report polluting vehicles? The guy said well I don't know who I would report it to, and she said well that's not really our issue is it? You're supposed to be monitoring polluting vehicles. He said OK, I'll give me the license plate number and I'll see what I can do. My wife said are you going to do anything? He said, I don't know I need to look at the regulations first and see who I'm supposed to report it to, and then maybe somebody will do something. 

[jacko45k]

For heavens sake... one only needs to take a ride down Sukhumvit for twenty minutes to see dozens of traffic violations, from no helmet, red-light running, illegal turns, going against traffic direction, lane marker straddling, double parking etc etc.....

What is the point of these police?

[jcmj]

What’s the number. Time to make some Christmas money. ????

[thailand49]

What type of school does these leaders come out from?  In Pattaya, Darkside on a Soi like Nernpludwan I can place a camera and make a mint there are hundred/thousand of violation T.IT. daily over and over again if they were serious they will need to send out the Army but as for me collecting fat chance they most likely will apply the duel pricing.????????

[Trujillo]

The intersection near my house has 11 CCTV cameras for catching red light runners. I will just sit on one corner with my telephoto and shoot licence plates of cars in the middle when the light is red. I can get probably 2 to 4 each cycle. That's 100s per hour. 

Lambo, here I come...

[Andycoops]

If I stand at the junction of my country road and the main road, 202, I would be a millionaire by the end of the day.

[bbko]

"Violators from six cases were taken for prosecution so far and an amount of 2,000 baht was distributed to those who reported the clips, the deputy chief stated."

 

So in addition to the police being too lazy to do their own job, they are tightfisted when it comes to payouts.  

 

In all my years of living here I can't recall hearing of the police actually chasing down a traffic violator and issuing tickets like they would in other countries.

[HappyExpat57]

Good luck collecting your blood money.

[tonray]

6 minutes ago, bbko said:

In all my years of living here I can't recall hearing of the police actually chasing down a traffic violator and issuing tickets like they would in other countries.

Not only that, in many cases they will not even pursue accident invstigations unless paid to do so. GF was hit from behind at a light by moto, she jumped out and snapped a pic of driver, bike and plate # before he sped off. Local police filed report for insurance and told her they would only go after him if she paid them 3000 baht to do so for their trouble !

[ChipButty]

Can farangs claim the rewards?

[kotsak]

While driving south to Prachuap Khiri Khan, I encountered a group of trucks carrying small harvesting equipment, clocking 120 km/h.

[Skeptic7]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

More nonsense. 
A while back they had another campaign similar to this and they had posters with phone numbers that you could call to report vehicles that were polluting. We were driving and we saw this truck that was pumping out huge black clouds of smoke and I copied down their license plate and I dialed the number, and handed my phone to my Thai wife and ask her speak to the department. She asked the person who answered the phone what can they do? He ask my wife why are you calling us and she said, well you have phone numbers posted to report polluting vehicles? The guy said well I don't know who I would report it to, and she said well that's not really our issue is it? You're supposed to be monitoring polluting vehicles. He said OK, I'll give me the license plate number and I'll see what I can do. My wife said are you going to do anything? He said, I don't know I need to look at the regulations first and see who I'm supposed to report it to, and then maybe somebody will do something. 

Typically Thailand! Surprised she even got this far, with the guy at least faking it. All of these are simply schemes and all for show, without action. The apathy and Ineptitude of the of this country is gross and astounding.

[Skeptic7]

27 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Can farangs claim the rewards?

555 there won't be any "rewards". Propaganda. All a scheme. All for show, like everything here in Land of Schemes, Scams and Ineptitude. 

[tonray]

19 minutes ago, kotsak said:

While driving south to Prachuap Khiri Khan, I encountered a group of trucks carrying small harvesting equipment, clocking 120 km/h.

Your check is in the mail. I hope it arrives before the trucks and their machete weilding drivers find you

[khunjeff]

I wish they would stop pretending that they care - it's just embarrassing at this point.

[jacko45k]

At first I put this down to my  usual thought of the police wanting others to do their work. And of course many will deride the snitches, weasels, finks, rats, etc, but if it means I can ride through the green light feeling safer on my bike.....good!

[swm59nj]

I live in Asoke. All I have to do is walk down to Terminal 21.  Then stand at Asoke Montri Road intersection for a few hours filming.  I should be a millionaire by the end of the day.  

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Can farangs claim the rewards?

No, only Thais can clam it against Farangs as they are all rich.

[Gsxrnz]

Hunting down and photographing the Greater Common Traffic Violator is too easy. 

 

They should be offering rewards for evidence of The Lesser (and extremely rare) Traffic Law Complier.

 

Ornithologically speaking, finding one of the latter in Thailand would be the equivalent of rediscovering the dodo.

[edwinchester]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Can farangs claim the rewards?

Of course they can but after the claim is submitted they'll be told 'Police Grass' is an occupation reserved for Thais, charged with working without a work permit, fined 50k bht, deported and refused entry to the Kingdom for a minimum of 1 year.

[AhFarangJa]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Can farangs claim the rewards?

They will probably claim you need a work permit, and as it is something a Thai can do then you will not get one..........also, in the unlikely event they accept your claim they will implement dual pricing in reverse. you would only get one tenth of the reward............

[Andre0720]

Could it be that a Thai astronomer would offer money to anyone helping by reporting seeing a celestial object.

[smedly]

How on earth are the public going to report people for speeding and drunk driving most likely the two major causes of fatalities on Thai roads with mobile phone use coming in there near the top also but very difficult to see because of darkened windows and very hard to prove without photographic evidence 

 

What is needed is for the  police to actually did their jobs but they don't seem to know how to do that

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

a 10,000-baht reward for the public who captured traffic violators

Are Thai police eligible?

[transam]

Just get your uniforms out there, that's why you have them.............