Sergeant resigns after losing faith in RTP - he's a friend of Terminal 21 shooter

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

INN reported that a police sergeant in Suphanburi, central Thailand had resigned after losing faith in the Royal Thai Police.

 

In his resignantion letter Pol Sgt Chaipat Bunthim said he was fed up with protection of wrong doers and corruption.

 

He had been a cop since November 2013.

 

It also emerged that he was formerly in the military and was a friend of Jakkraphan Thomma, the deceased shooter who went on the rampage at terminal 21 in Korat killing several dozen innocent people in a spree killing that shocked the nation.

 

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[Artisi]

And? 

[worgeordie]

Just what they need here ,more good cops, it's either join them or leave

when you cannot stand it anymore , 

 

regards Worgeordie

[Celsius]

Bon Cop Bad Cop

[proton]

Bloke with integrity and moral standards, not really a qualification for the RTP. 

[bendejo]

Maybe they can call it something like Serpico Syndrome, where the corruption and all the behavior that supports it drives the decent ones crazy.  Or to depression.

 

 

[ignore it]

Is the RTP linking this man to his murderous dead friend to discredit him and deflecting criticism?

Nah, there going to form a committee to reform themselves.

Edited February 20, 2023 by ignore it

[connda]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

In his resignantion letter Pol Sgt Chaipat Bunthim said he was fed up with protection of wrong doers and corruption.

I see a super-hero movie plot developing.............

[connda]

20 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Is the RTP linking this man to his murderous dead friend to discredit him and deflecting criticism?

 

I think so.

[Adumbration]

Awww diddums.  Are you unhappy with your cut of the tea money.  Is it not enough to pay the interest on the money you had to borrow to buy your elephant ticket?

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Just what they need here ,more good cops, it's either join them or leave

when you cannot stand it anymore , 

 

regards Worgeordie

Someone with a conscience... I wish him well.

[WHansen]

12 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Someone with a conscience... I wish him well.

+1

[spidermike007]

Maybe he thought the RTP was an actual law enforcement agency when he joined. How disappointing that would be. 

[zzaa09]

16 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Maybe he thought the RTP was an actual law enforcement agency when he joined. How disappointing that would be. 

You know how that works.....disgraced whistleblowers find themselves on the marked blacklist. 

He might be rather cautious as to making his feelings and opinions public. 

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

You know how that works.....disgraced whistleblowers find themselves on the marked blacklist. 

He might be rather cautious as to making his feelings and opinions public. 

Speaking truth in the face of deception, obfuscation, deflection, and cover ups can be a terrible thing. 

[bendejo]

Al Jazeera has a documentary about a Thai official who blew the whistle and exiled himself to Australia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2022/4/21/thailands-fearless-cop

 

 

[mikebell]

16 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Someone with a conscience... I wish him well.

Well said.  He is a man of principle.  If there were more like him RTP would lose its shameful image.  They disgrace the name of Thailand every day they put on their brown uniforms and hold their hands out.

[JonnyF]

Like many organizations with a toxic culture. The good leave, the bad stay.

[bamnutsak]

In other articles what this Sgt. described sounded more like a pyramid scheme, RTP meet Amway, focused on recruiting lower-level members and requiring them to meet certain collection quotas. While the folks higher up sit back and reap the income generated.

 

Maybe a bit like the Thai social construct overall, so not surprising?

 

 

[bendejo]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

They disgrace the name of Thailand every day they put on their brown uniforms and hold their hands out.

Kinda funny, with all this concern about face.  Even in certain Latin American countries cops can be reluctant to hit up foreigners out of concern for the country's image.  One Brit fellow told me he was stopped for speeding, the cop told him he's going to let him off because he didn't want the Brit to go back to his country and tell people how the cops in Brazil are b*stards.
I would think there'd be more of that kind of vanity here.

 

[mikebell]

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

he didn't want the Brit to go back to his country and tell people how the cops in Brazil are b*stards.

This kind of farsightedness does not exist here.  Thais live in the now.  The taxi mafia in Samui/Phuket/Pattaya/Bangkok will ultimately decimate tourism. RTP will complete the job.