No prostitution this Songkran: RTP makes priorities clear for safe holidays

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Many of Thailand's top brass at the Royal Thai Police got together yesterday for a "what to do about Songkran" meeting.

 

They used the latest software in the form of Clubhouse with the chair going to Pol Gen Roy Ingkhaphairoj, reported Siam Rath.

 

The force agreed a widespread plan to make sure that Songkran is safe.

 

This included regulations to be followed at checkpoints and other procedural matters.

 

One item on the 8 item checklist, called for decisive action against places of prostitution if they break the law.

 

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Along with action against local police if they are foolish enough to turn a blind eye to what is going on in their jurisdictions. 

 

Some 50% of the entire police force will be directly employed in Songkran related activities. 

 

The police hierarchy also demanded that individual stations come up with plans for Songkran that are clear.  

 

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[petermik]

 

Come on now chaps everyone knows there is no prostitution here in Thailand...

[RandiRona]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thai Police got together yesterday for a "what to do about Songkran" meeting

I think that's a good resolution they made for the themselves .No prostitution this songkran...Celebrate with Mia Nois

[tracker1]

Not to sure that many deaths are contributed to prostitution better if they utilize their resources on traffic management !

[hughrection]

RTP list of things to do.

 

1. Ignore bikes driving down the wrong side of the road

2. Give tickets to only foreigners who don't have a helmet

3. Try to stay awake in the booth

4. Stop people from getting their hole

5. Don't stop any high end cars no matter if they are all over the road

6. Have fun.

 

????  Have a great Songkran you guys in the colour brown.

 

[candide]

Oh! Yes! Sure! ????

[Iamfalang]

soo easy.   Catch a falang with prostitution, death penalty.  just like drugs.

 

fast forward ......   tourist numbers drop from 35 million (99.999% guys) to 8 backpackers.

 

I'm the only one who comes to Thailand for clean air, cool days, healthy food, and safe roads

[Misterwhisper]

"One item on the 8 item checklist, called for decisive action against places of prostitution if they break the law."

 

In other words: prostitution is perfectly okay during all other days of the year. A bit like that annual "7 Dangerous Days" road accident-prevention ritual where "decisive action" is only taken during a single week while the carnage is allowed to commence unabated as soon as Songkran is over.

 

So what's the goal post for that magnificent campaign? A 5% reduction in prostitution-induced orgasms compared to last year? You know, like the same reduction rate that they have in mind for road accidents.

 

We also need to give that valiant campaign a catchy moniker. I suggest "7 Dangerous STD-Ridden Days". 

[RafPinto]

NEXT

 

Do not go for a "happy or friendly or she just wants you happy" massage.
We keep an eye on you, we monitor your hormone levels.
We will perform random tests when people leave massage shops and check if there was something "unloaded".
Penalty: 6 years at BKK Hilton

[Boomer6969]

41 minutes ago, webfact said:

Some 50% of the entire police force will be directly employed in Songkran related activities. 

Half the police force will be splashing water?

[Hans Johnson]

Why not get their 50% of the police force to reduce the death toll and book drink driving and bad driving and dangerous driving. Not chasing freebies. 
 

 

[StayinThailand2much]

Is that meant to be for all prostitution, or just the small part that tourists see?

 

(By the way, wasn't the word, not so long ago, that 'there is no prostitution in Thailand'?)

Edited April 6, 2022 by StayinThailand2much

[StayinThailand2much]

2 minutes ago, Hans Johnson said:

Why not get their 50% of the police force to reduce the death toll and book drink driving and bad driving and dangerous driving. Not chasing freebies. 

That would, you know, result in work, and standing in the sun...

[fondue zoo]

47 minutes ago, petermik said:

 

Come on now chaps everyone knows there is no prostitution here in Thailand...

...a good spanking across a knee?

[richard_smith237]

54 minutes ago, webfact said:

Many of Thailand's top brass at the Royal Thai Police

Hmm....   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 6, 2022 by richard_smith237

[Xonax]

The most funny thing about Thailand is, how the police always need to be reminded to do their job.

[foreverlomsak]

43 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

"One item on the 8 item checklist, called for decisive action against places of prostitution if they break the law."

 

So what's the goal post for that magnificent campaign? A 5% reduction in prostitution-induced orgasms compared to last year?

No an increase in brown envelopes and the thickness of same

[daveAustin]

Dinosaurs sat around the round table talking it up again, many of which will be the head honchos of said establishments. Oh, the irony!

[ikke1959]

Finished quickly as there is no prostitution in Thailand....Only massagesalons with happy endings, karaoke restaurants with a lot of hostesses to hire for .........to take home or a hotel, even today a young girl acted as a madam for a friend of 16 yrs old... But that is no prostitution of course.... That is friendship. So police don't need to do anything as they always do.. In the land of all over the world known for their sexindustry

Edited April 6, 2022 by ikke1959

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

No prostitution for Songkran? I guess I can't quit my day job just yet then

[TheFishman1]

I remember one year they ban people from riding in the bed of the pick up trucks I don’t think that worked out too good TT

[Denim]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Many of Thailand's top brass at the Royal Thai Police

 

Wow ......the RTP has it's own brass !!   That's one hell of a perk.

[catch104]

Yes well done, that is leadership!!!!
Corruption, yes, full speed,
Prostitution.... oh no!!!!! ????

[Almer]

3 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Not to sure that many deaths are contributed to prostitution better if they utilize their resources on traffic management !

Agreed

[inThailand]

Many of Thailand's top brass at the Royal Thai Police got together yesterday for a "what to do about Songkran" meeting.

 

They decided the plans they used for the last couple decades were a success, so why change. Meeting adjourned to the brothel?

[sqwakvfr]

A man and a woman go to a hotel that has hourly rates.  Man pays and both enter the room.  Both leave the room an hour later with smiles.  This is not prostitution.  Just two satisfied people and a happy hotel owner.  Happy Songkran 2022.  

Edited April 6, 2022 by sqwakvfr

[bkk6060]

 

5 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

A man and a woman go to a hotel that has hourly rates.  Man pays and both enter the room.  Both leave the room an hour later with smiles.  This is not prostitution.  Just two satisfied people and a happy motel owner.  Happy Songkran 

In most western countries you are correct as their needs to be some type of financial agreement prior to the act and usually a furtherance of the act. 

Not sure how the law is spelled out here.

[blazes]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

One item on the 8 item checklist, called for decisive action against places of prostitution if they break the law.

If you are a "place of prostitution" you are, by definition, breaking the law, no?

[Guderian]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Some 50% of the entire police force will be directly employed in Songkran related activities. 

In other words, there's going to be a lot of tea money handed over.

[Lingba]

yeah right..of course not