RTP chief promises to plug gaps allowing foreign criminals entry into Thailand following Phuket shooting

[Forza2002]

To make their lives easy the Boys in Brown should amend the TM6 arrival form to include another check box, "are you a wanted criminal in your home country"... Sorted.. ????

[zzaa09]

Those damn foreigners.

[law ling]

So, you need a passport to enter Thailand - but it appears there's no system in place to cross-check if the passport has been cancelled (or stolen)?

 

(Reminds me of the missing MH370 flight: two passengers were found to be using stolen passports - as Malaysia did not subscribe to Interpol's service to check passport validity at check-in.)

[mbenson]

Hopefully they don't just get a bigger net.

[ChaiyaTH]

6 hours ago, law ling said:

(Reminds me of the missing MH370 flight: two passengers were found to be using stolen passports - as Malaysia did not subscribe to Interpol's service to check passport validity at check-in.)

Well that is even a bigger risk for domestic flights, you can just use a driving license that you bought down khao san.

[StayinThailand2much]

7 hours ago, Adumbration said:

If only the assassins had killed the Canadian by smothering him with a plastic bag.  There would be no need for this charade.

Because then they could suggest it was a suicide...

[Stargeezr]

It is possible that the hitmen were from Thailand. In that case they just live somewhere else in the country 

and have gone back home until they are needed again for this line of work. One less

drug maker, dealer, etc, is no loss.  The guy was deported from Canada, so he was more Indian than

anything else. Live by the gun, die by the gun, is a more modern day slogan.

  Swords are so yesterday. 

[Ralf001]

This Indian Chap that got himself dead.

 

Wasn't he fresh of the deportation flight from Canada ?.

 

Surely that is enough of a red flag to suggest he was not a good cookie...... and yet they let him enter Thailand !!

[Andycoops]

And most of the foreign criminals here are hiding in plain site with plod on their payroll.

Also the BiB couldn't put a plug in a bath, let alone the borders of the country, ref all the illegal migrants entering daily.