Thailand’s first female investigative police officer takes on deputy superintendent job in Surat Thani

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Police Lieutenant Colonel Sophit Phitsaphan (left) was confident as she took on her new role this week at Ban Ta Khun Police Station in Surat Thani as a deputy superintendent in charge of investigations. It comes at a time when calls are being made for more female police officers in a force that barred entry to the police cadet college to women in 2018 and where only 8% of the rank and file are female.

 

Activists are calling for more gender equality within the force pointing to criminal cases involving the sexual abuse and exploitation of women which are a growing proportion of Thailand’s criminal offences and are often linked or intertwined with drug abuse. A story of a 13-year old young Muslim girl who took her own life in the Ramkhamhaeng area of Bangkok in 2019 highlights the need for more of a woman’s touch within the country’s large police force.

 

Thailand has appointed its first senior police officer in charge of investigations in Surat Thani province this week. The new officer will take on the role of deputy superintendent at a local police station and follows the appointment in 2019 of the kingdom’s first female police superintendent in Bangkok. However, it is coming at a time when the recruitment of women to the force is lagging amid huge demand to enter the ranks from unemployed graduates who cannot find work in the ongoing COVID-19 economy which has yet to recover its momentum to pre-pandemic levels.

 

 

The Royal Thai Police has appointed its first deputy superintendent working on criminal investigations. Police Lieutenant Colonel Sophit Phitsaphan took up her role at Ban Ta Khun Police Station in southern Thailand’s Surat Thani province this week.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/12/12/four-inmates-recaptured-five-still-loose-after-escaping-from-a-nakhon-pathom-prison-yesterday/

 

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[RJRS1301]

Great job, congratulations. Perhaps more women in positions of command may see a change in professionalism within the service?

[Tarteso]

Strange movement in a country where by nature Misogyny and Chauvinism,  are a pattern of behavior. 

[RJRS1301]

3 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Strange movement in a country where by nature Misogyny and Chauvinism,  are a pattern of behavior. 

Maybe some enlightement has occurred??

 

[Asquith Production]

I wonder how her male counterparts are going to take being ordered around by a woman

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand has appointed its first senior police officer in charge of investigations in Surat Thani province this week. The new officer will take on the role of deputy superintendent at a local police station and follows the appointment in 2019 of the kingdom’s first female police superintendent in Bangkok.

Thai culture at it's finest.

[Tropicalevo]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

sexual abuse and exploitation of women which are a growing proportion of Thailand’s criminal offences and are often linked or intertwined with drug abuse.

Yet they want to legalise drugs and reduce prison sentences.

Logic is not this government's strong point.

[Eric Loh]

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Great job, congratulations. Perhaps more women in positions of command may see a change in professionalism within the service?

Pol Col Pawina Ekchat was the first female police officer to be promoted to superintendent in the Royal Thai Police history in 2019. Glass ceiling has been broken and hopefully we see this óld boys club' opening up in the higher echelons of the force to women. 

[Tropposurfer]

2 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Yet they want to legalise drugs and reduce prison sentences.

Logic is not this government's strong point.

Given the weight of data across the globe that punitive treatment of drug users (dealers are another matter entirely) is and has been a complete failure, perhaps seeking a different means to negotiate this human experience is sorely overdue. 

[Caldera]

Before opening this thread, I kind of knew there would be a photo and it would show the female officer sporting a tomboy haircut. How predictable.

[Orinoco]

I would.

[Caldera]

4 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

I would.

But would she?

 

[trainman34014]

Thai Males Fragile Ego will find this hard to take; can't have Women odering them around, being smarter than them and no doubt working harder than them and using their Brains to solve Crime instead of 're-visiting' crime scenes in huge numbers with some poor Scroat in Cuffs as a PR exercise and being none the wiser when it's done !

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, Orinoco said:

I would.

Have a Tomboy haircut?

[Khabib]

7 hours ago, Asquith Production said:

I wonder how her male counterparts are going to take being ordered around by a woman

There will be some, that secretly like being ordered around by a lady. Specially in uniform.