Interior ministry and police force declare war on drugs

[webfact]

 

Namo Vananupong
    
BANGKOK (NNT) - In response to the prime minister ordering a sweeping anti-narcotics effort by all agencies, the interior ministry and the police force have declared a war on drugs.

 

The two organizations have set a target for a list of drug users and sellers nationwide to be produced by October’s end. The information will be used to facilitate narcotics suppression and rehabilitation of users.

 

The interior ministry and the national police held a joint meeting to discuss solving the narcotics problem. Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Sutthipong Juljarern and Royal Thai Police Commissioner Damrongsak Kittipraphat chaired the meeting.

 

Representatives from the Narcotics Control Board, the Ministry of Public Health, and other public agencies were also in attendance. Talks at the meeting involved the prevention, suppression, and rehabilitation aspects of the fight against narcotics.

 

The interior ministry permanent secretary said an October 31 deadline has bee set for preliminary information on drug users and sellers to be produced. The information will be used among partner agencies, including the police and the military, to tackle the narcotics problem.

 

The relevant agencies will exchange information with one another and also screen information at the local level. Provincial governors and district chiefs will take charge of searches for individuals involved with narcotics. These searches will cover all subdistricts and villages nationwide.

 

According to Mr. Sutthipong, a drug user will have to spend at least one week inside a rehabilitation center. The suppression effort will be conducted alongside the rehabilitation effort, with information on even one pill of an illicit drug to be considered. Local administrative organizations will also be asked to provide material support in the form of equipment to screen for drugs.

 

The permanent secretary said narcotics is a national agenda that necessitated a declaration of a “war on drugs”. All public sector employees are now subject to random screening for drugs.

 

Meanwhile, the national police chief said a large number of drug users have not been entered into rehab. A number of these individuals have gone on to develop mental conditions and have attacked people.

 

He added chiefs of police stations nationwide will be making frequent community visits to nurture relations with locals and foster public confidence in the police.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG221012091803122

 

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[grandpa]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

In response to the prime minister ordering a sweeping anti-narcotics effort by all agencies, the interior ministry and the police force have declared a war on drugs.

Why do they have to be ordered to do what should be their daily job anyway!  I guess too many of the RTP are in inactive posts.

[Iamfalang]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The two organizations have set a target for a list of drug users and sellers nationwide to be produced by October’s end.

What is this?   Why not to be produced by today?  or last month?  or yesterday?  or next week?   and were they NOT on a list last month, before the killings?

 

It's a step forward, but I'm not sure how many steps were taking back before this amazing announcement.

 

go get them!!!!!!  hopefully before Oct. 31 .                 

[Jerno]

And what have they been doing up to now?  Now it's suddenly a war?  Sheesh!

 

[Neeranam]

16 minutes ago, Jerno said:

And what have they been doing up to now?  Now it's suddenly a war?  Sheesh!

 

The police usually sell drugs, or protect those that do.  This is the right step forward. The corruption within the Police can't be changed easily or quickly.

[Gknrd]

Best to legalize them and tax them. 

[bamnutsak]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The two organizations have set a target for a list of drug users and sellers nationwide to be produced by October’s end.

Sounds easy - just three weeks of work, curious they didn't do this previously?

 

And maybe build more prisons?

 

Nothing about the source of the drugs, how they make their way into Thailand, where some fall off the truck, and then get shipped outside of Thailand.

 

 

 

 

[huangnon]

16 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

The police usually sell drugs, or protect those that do.  This is the right step forward. The corruption within the Police can't be changed easily or quickly.

The Army (allegedly) have a big hand in actually producing them, with their counterparts over the borders.

The cops just franchise the selling part.

[connda]

Goodbye cannabis.  So much for Anutin For PM.

[connda]

14 minutes ago, huangnon said:

The Army (allegedly) have a big hand in actually producing them, with their counterparts over the borders.

The cops just franchise the selling part.

Shhhhh.

[Kevin Taylor]

Assuming this is in response to the school shooting, maybe concentrate on how you gave a gun and badge to that psycho instead of drug use. The war on drugs has been a failure in America arguably causing more problems than it solves but who knows maybe this time it works its their country not ours so up to them really.

[bamnutsak]

19 minutes ago, huangnon said:

The Army (allegedly) have a big hand in actually producing them, with their counterparts over the borders.

The cops just franchise the selling part.

 

Excellent summary.

 

The security apparatus (mostly ISOC, part of the RTA) here can dedicate dozens of personnel to track a single teenage dissident. You can be dang sure they know where the drugs are coming from, how they transit Thailand, and how much they skim for local sales.

 

To suggest they don't know what's going on strains credulity.

[spidermike007]

That is most amusing. It is as if the police are declaring war upon themselves. Who will win the war? 

[Mickmouse1]

2 hours ago, Jerno said:

And what have they been doing up to now?  Now it's suddenly a war?  Sheesh!

 

Ha-????

[kaonoister]

They should declare war on intoxinated police and military personnel...i see them for years clear their problems with weapons....some of them are very scary

 

[wensiensheng]

Blah, blah, blah. In a couple of weeks this will all quietly be forgotten…..just like every other crackdown that I have heard  announced over the last 15 years. Everyone knows it’s so.

[wombat]

now that weed and kratom are off the narcotics list the results of this new edict should be interesting

[khunpa]

7 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Blah, blah, blah. In a couple of weeks this will all quietly be forgotten…..just like every other crackdown that I have heard  announced over the last 15 years. Everyone knows it’s so.

Exactly! Live here long enough and you get immune to any official crack-down statements. 
 

Just smile and go on with your day like all the Thais do. Think too much about statements like this and you will go insane.

 

 

 

[Skeptic7]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

That is most amusing. It is as if the police are declaring war upon themselves. Who will win the war? 

The "po-leet". ????

[Skeptic7]

Nothing like following a failed plan and leading from behind. Oh wait...TIT...so business as usual.

 

"Wars on Drugs" have been colossal, expensive failures in every country which has declared such, which always cause more harm than good. 

[Purdey]

Perhaps it is about time the ministry of public health and the ministry of the interior had a chat about what other mild drugs could be taken off the dangerous drugs list and what laws could be adjusted to lower the number of custodial sentences.

A war against drugs implies extra judicial killings and innocent lives lost.

[dave moir]

Just legalised cannabis and now waging war on drugs ???? you couldn't make it up could you ????????????

[4MyEgo]

I'm starting to get sick and tired of seeing these guys wearing their underwear on their faces.

 

Somebody should really tell them it's ok to remove them, the country has got to start somewhere and they always look to those in uniforms for guidance.

 

 

[tandor]

...Well, you had best get a wriggle on!

[mjakob007]

Wonder what they did all these years....

indulge & facilitate...

 

what next - continue...

[Moti24]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

........ the interior ministry and the police force have declared a war on drugs.

Again!

[ed strong]

Unfortunately Thailand's drugs / pills are just recycled through the system on a continuous loop. it will take some time for that link to do be withdrawn.

 

America started a war on drugs 30 years ago and now there's more drugs available then ever.

 

[Harveyboy]

Spot on Inferior ministry..

[Cake Monster]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, the national police chief said a large number of drug users have not been entered into rehab. A number of these individuals have gone on to develop mental conditions and have attacked people.

This statement came from the National Police Chief

He obviously is capable of reading the News or watching it on TV, but little else

I would have had some respect for the Man had he made a statement that the Drug Suppression activities would start today, and at the Police Stations all over the Country

[Pib]

 

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The two organizations have set a target for a list of drug users and sellers nationwide to be produced by October’s end. 

And then promptly mailed to Santa Claus to identify those who have been naughty....no Christmas gifts if on the list.