Police Commission sacks 30 more bent cops in May - total for year now sails past 100

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The Police Commission met for the fifth time this year at Government House chaired by Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha. 

 

Main item on the agenda was the removal of a further 30 officers from the force in May. This comprised two levels of removal known in Thai as "lai ork" and "plot ork" - both are dismissal though Thai Rath did not explain the difference.

 

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This followed work by the Police Sub-Commitee on Discipline, Appeals, Complaints and Human Resource Management, revealed Pol Maj-Gen Yingyot Thepjamnong acting as RTP spokesman. 

 

The total of officers removed from the force this year is now at 118 (93 lai ork and 25 plot ork). 

 

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[SunnyinBangrak]

I thought bent cops usually got assigned to an inactive post where they presumably still draw a salary and can keep a supervisory eye on their victims.

[300sd]

Great. Now can we get the ones who send innocent Thais to prison on trumped up charges? Also those who ask for payoffs after these arrests. Bribes are paid and still they go to court. I know paying a bribe to be free is bad news but the worst is an innocent person going to prison because of bad police. They are scum, the scourge of Thailand, and it is a pathetic situation!

[tracker1]

Corruption normaly starts at the top.! 

[hughrection]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

The total of officers removed from the force this year is now at 118 (93 lai ork and 25 plot ork). 

It is ironic that these same cops were dismissed because they were not spreading the wealth. ???? 

[tomacht8]

118 from 230000.

 

Nobody denies that there is corruption and that the police is underpaid. However, the 118 out of 230,000 is just an indication that nothing will change in the police system. Real police reform would look different.

Edited May 31, 2022 by tomacht8

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

Great. Now can we get the ones who send innocent Thais to prison on trumped up charges? Also those who ask for payoffs after these arrests. Bribes are paid and still they go to court. I know paying a bribe to be free is bad news but the worst is an innocent person going to prison because of bad police. They are scum, the scourge of Thailand, and it is a pathetic situation!

You should not keep things pent-up say what you really mean .................LOL

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, tomacht8 said:

118 from 230000.

 

Nobody denies that there is corruption and that the police is underpaid. However, the 118 out of 230,000 is just an indication that nothing will change in the police system. Real police reform would look different.

Agree, removing 100 or even 1,000 bent officers per year is not organizational change nor attitude change.

 

 

Edited May 31, 2022 by scorecard

[Clutch]

4 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Corruption normaly starts at the top.! 

Correct, as the old saying goes, The fish stinks from the head down. 

[chalawaan]

No more inactive posts? 

Too bad the Army is Thailand's largest criminal enterprise. 

Has anybody gone to jail for the recruit hazing deaths?

The cadet whose body was returned with organs removed by Army pathologist? Shameful and shameless. 

Just look at Parliament, stuffed with over200 useless ex army flag rank parasites.

And the man who would be PM. General Prawit, watch collector and confidante to the dead.

Captain Promprow. Promoted after scoring an Aussie Criminal Record and jail time (a joke, he should have got life just as dealers do in Thailand) For heroin trafficking. Fair enough, the world now knows the next step is human trafficking. Thanks to one brave Thai cop they want to destroy. 

Edited May 31, 2022 by chalawaan

[mikebell]

100+ is a paltry number.  A tour of Pattaya alone would turn up double this figure every week.

[jacko45k]

On 5/31/2022 at 10:01 AM, tracker1 said:

Corruption normaly starts at the top.! 

Retribution can't get up there!

[seajae]

they are removing the low lying branches to defer closer scrutiny/protect the top of the tree, the whole police force needs a clean out and it needs to start at the top, the bottom of the barrel can only use graft/corruption when the top players allow & encourage it

 

[ourdon]

Hmm.   Thought just crossed my mind.

 

Were these guys sacked because because they are bent or were they sacked because they will not bend.  An honest cop would create a great deal of discord at a generally bent station.

 

Just a Thought

from a very cynical person

[OneMoreFarang]

I wonder what their crime was. Like i.e.:

- not giving enough to their superiors

- intrusion into illegal business which was run by another officer

- standing up again one more senior organized crime member?

 

[zzaa09]

On 5/30/2022 at 8:01 PM, tracker1 said:

Corruption normaly starts at the top.! 

For decades upon decades.

And yet, no one seems not to take notice. 

Oh well.

[4MyEgo]

So 100 cops of the 230,000 cops in the entire Thai Police Force, which represents about 17% of the civil servants, excluding the military and the employees of state-owned enterprises.  

 

Hardly anything to brag about, actually it's disgraceful if you ask me.

 

At this rate, it will be the year 3030 by the time they get to 200 a year.

 

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by 4MyEgo