Thai PM continues corruption drive - he's determined to tidy up the RTP's bent officers

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

When Thailand's current PM assumed power the best part of eight years ago he promised to end corruption in Thailand in 20 years.

 

Views on how well he is doing are mixed.

 

Yesterday it was claimed by the RTP spokesman that Prayuth Chan-ocha is till on that anti-corrution mission.

 

Critics of the Thai PM say he has done little to end endemic corruption among officialdom and especially the Royal Thai Police.

 

Salacious stories appear daily in the Thai press with the public weary of corrupt officials.

 

Yesterday Pol Maj-Gen Yingyot Thepjamnong commented after the second meeting of the year of the Police Commission that is chaired by Prayuth.

 

He claimed that the PM is still serious and determined to root out corruption in the force whether it results in disciplinary or criminal investigations, reported INN.

 

As evidence of this 23 officers were expelled from the force in February. 

 

A total of 19 were sacked (in Thai 'lai ork') and four dismissed ('plort ork' or let go).

 

This brought the total for the year to 36 - 29 sacked and 7 dismissed.

 

In addition the PM urged the RTP to get tough with call center or boiler room gangs. 

 

No discussion at the meeting involved Pol Maj-Gen Paween Pongsirin, said the spokesman, referring to a senior former RTP officer allegedly mixed up in illegal activity. 

 

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[MSMU1993]

Narrator: No he wasn't.....

[RandiRona]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

He claimed that the PM is still serious

Hahahahaha

[Thaiwrath]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

he promised to end corruption in Thailand in 20 years.

[keith101]

I dont think there would be a police force anywhere in the world that does not have corruption and will never be eradicated as long as its officers are underpaid IMO .

Edited February 24, 2022 by keith101

[Pouatchee]

The more things change...

 

They were let go... maybe they should have served time?

 

BTW didn't they pass/start to enforce a law where we can get in serious trouble if we talk bad about the pooolice?

 

Guess only the big P can do it.

Edited February 24, 2022 by Pouatchee

[ezzra]

When the rest of the Thai society will rid itself of the well entrenched system of graft, under the table payments and all other means of "payments to expedite things" only than the PM will have a modicum chance of success in such mammoth task...

[HappyExpat57]

Would someone please remind this buffoon April 1st is still a ways off?

[RafPinto]

Something to do with the "swiss bank" news?

[mtls2005]

One assumes Joe Ferrari and Tony Ducati are still on the payroll?

 

Thaksin was gone for ages before they finally stripped him of his RTP rank.

 

 

[Mavideol]

he's just venting, blowing out some hot air as elections may be on the horizon, typical (bad) politicians move

[klauskunkel]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

PM is still determined to root out corruption in the force

from Jr. Lieutenant all the way down to new recruit

[bluemoon58]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He claimed that the PM is still serious and determined to root out corruption in the force

Yeh yeh, how many times have we heard this? I mean, he's only been in the seat for 8 years. Give the lad time...!!! ????

[LALes]

8 years down, 12 to go.  Better fatten up, boys.

[heybruce]

Not too long after the most recent coup the RTP very publicly demonstrated that they can expose a great deal of dirt on high ranking military officers. 

 

Nothing is going to change under this guy.

[blazes]

What's the difference between being "sacked" and being "dismissed"?  Sacked because you did not offer sufficient to Maj-Gen Polpot to avoid being dismissed?

 

It's all (Greek) Thai to me.

[apophyss]

Every weeks, thai news looks like a first april,

but they not joking...

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thai PM continues corruption drive

 

Never did a news headline have a better dual meaning than this one....   ????

 

[Katipo]

Under Prayuth, Thailand has slipped to an all time low of 110 in the international transparency index.  It's hard to close the till with your hand in it.

[sammieuk1]

LOS endemic corruption among officialdom officially said ????

[metisdead]

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[Thailand]

28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thai PM continues corruption drive

 

Never did a news headline have a better dual meaning than this one....   ????

 

Yep, down to an art form.

[Guderian]

If the government is taking firm action (a big 'if', I know) to end corruption in the police force, then perhaps it would only be fair for the police to take firm action to end corruption in the government. Now that's what I would call a win-win situation for the ordinary Thai folk.

[RichardColeman]

Police are only doing what they are seeing the people above them doing. Political leaders in Thailand are more richer than their counterparts in the west, which makes no sense other than wealth gain inappropriately 

[RafPinto]

I always wonder what those "would like to by hobby farang, tourist police guys" are getting for their services.

 

From a bus driver in north england to a tourist police volunteer.

What a career.

[Dave0206]

2 hours ago, keith101 said:

I dont think there would be a police force anywhere in the world that does not have corruption and will never be eradicated as long as its officers are underpaid IMO .

I understand your sentiment but surely to root out corruption you start at the top seems to me people buy there way into the force .would have paying Mr ferrari Joe an extra few thousand on his salary turn him into a good cop? 

[MikeN]

Quote

No discussion at the meeting involved Pol Maj-Gen Paween Pongsirin, said the spokesman, referring to a senior former RTP officer allegedly mixed up in illegal activity. 

 

I thought he was the one that had to run for his life because he exposed illegal activity, he was n’t “mixed up in it”. That makes it sound as if he was one of the bad guys....bad translation or are they trying to muddy the waters and discredit him ?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Views on how well he is doing are mixed.

Ohh???  I don't know about that!  I suspect the views of how he's [not] doing on corruption are pretty much universally in agreement.

 

[spidermike007]

No, no, no, no. Totally fake news. The real problem is, they will not go after these guys. Not the top bankers, not the high ranking guys, not the provincial authorities, and certainly not the army, or the police. They are all corrupt beyond imagination. And the level of corruption simply escalates, the further up the food chain you go. They police and army are not expected to be honest, and they are not expected to engage in law enforcement, traffic or public safety, on any level. It is an irrevocably broken and dysfunctional system. Any hyperbole to the contrary, is just a smoke screen, intended to deceive the most naive amongst us.

The Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) is one of the most feeble and ineffective of all the tools Prayuth has used to deceive the people into believing that he is fighting corruption. Who was the last high level authority, in the police, immigration, the army, or the active administration they arrested, charged, tried convicted, and sent to prison? Nobody. Zero. Nunca. Nada. Why? Because Prayuth has had a mandate from the beginning to do the very opposite. To protect the elite, the super wealthy who are guilty, those that are connected, and those who are in power. Just think Dark Tao. Just think Red Bull. The list goes on, and on, and on. Only the most naive amongst us believe he or ACT secretary-general Mana Nimitmongkol are sincere about this. 

It barely matters. These guys are above the law. Any and all laws. The only time they are arrested is when it becomes big news, or it is reported internationally, and Thailand gets a ton of egg on it's face. And even then, it normally does not result in a conviction. Very, very few current (not former) police, immigration, customs, cabinet officials, army officials, or administration officials are arrested here, tried, convicted and imprisoned. My guess is it is one of the lowest rates in the world. The corruption here is never ending.

And to think that tiny P. came into office with the agenda of cleaning the place up. LOL. About as amusing, and about as sincere as Trump draining the swamp. Nothing ever got cleaned up. If anything, things are filthier under the army, then they were before. 

When you have an administration that is built solely upon a foundation of cronyism, favoritism, and corruption, you end up with alot of morally bankrupt people, with ridiculous amounts of money. It gives them an Ivory Tower consciousness, and seems to foster a level of pathology that manifests itself as a dislike of the common man, a lack of respect for anyone who is not very wealthy, and a system of patronage, that only the toxic urchins within the army, the administration, the police, immigration, customs, and the elite of society benefit from. Sorry to inform you, Prayuth. But when you run a nation built upon a foundation that only protects the elite, the super wealthy, those that are well connected, those in power, and a spectacularly corrupt army, and then you reach out to nations that observe the rules of law and order for help, you get ignored, scorned, and ridiculed. Nobody is listening to you these days, much less Interpol. You are NOT a serious man. 98% of Thailand knows this, and most of the world does too. Over 7 years of your nonsense and insincerity has proven that time and time again.
 
For the masses, woe are them. And woe is Thailand.

[Snig27]

Has goofy finally done the right thing and resigned? That's the only way any headway will be made into corruption. Lest we forget, goofy and the watchman also filled the courts with bought and paid for scumbags to do their bidding.