Only a couple of dozen foreigners in Bangkok at the moment meanwhile all these police vans are sitting there empty maybe they should try to sell them at the market. 

Are you one of those "Frauditors"..........?

I am no fan of the Bangkok Police! 555. Sorry, I bet you've heard that before!

I got a little confused when I read the headline saying "fans" instead of vans.

 

I also believe that they are not necessarily for foreigners, but for the Thai people who may be arrested for protesting.

 

I would think that they probably called the vans and crews in from other provinces, and that they will return them and their crews when they are finished with them.

 

That is only my thoughts and opinion.

12 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I am no fan of the Bangkok Police! 555. Sorry, I bet you've heard that before!

It's not Bangkok police it's immigration police it's the people that welcome you to the country and stamp your passport and if you stay for one day past the 30 days that's the people that are going to arrest you and put in these back of the trucks such a dystopian country

14 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I am no fan of the Bangkok Police! 555. Sorry, I bet you've heard that before!

I'm very sorry about the fans instead of vans. But this website is so strange and difficult to find how to go and edit the headline of your profile of the news so after like trying to do it after 5 minutes I'm not bothered

14 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I got a little confused when I read the headline saying "fans" instead of vans.

 

I also believe that they are not necessarily for foreigners, but for the Thai people who may be arrested for protesting.

 

I would think that they probably called the vans and crews in from other provinces, and that they will return them and their crews when they are finished with them.

 

That is only my thoughts and opinion.

Well I hope they can all buy new uniforms across the street because they're all XXL anymore they're not they're not 18 and 20 anymore

2 minutes ago, arick said:

I'm very sorry about the fans instead of vans. But this website is so strange and difficult to find how to go and edit the headline of your profile of the news so after like trying to do it after 5 minutes I'm not bothered

 

I fixed it for you. 

I'm blown away with this story.     

3 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

I'm blown away with this story.     

USA Frauditor on holiday....????

They use a large black van and plain clothes when looking for overstayers and illegal entrants. At least one has an immigration bright yellow and blue vest on but stays in the background unless needed.

 

 

Only the first 2 vans are Immigration Police vans. The rest are probably standby vehicles as Billd766 indicates.

33 minutes ago, arick said:

It's not Bangkok police it's immigration police it's the people that welcome you to the country and stamp your passport and if you stay for one day past the 30 days that's the people that are going to arrest you and put in these back of the trucks such a dystopian country

Well I certainly wish the UK police/border force would do the same with all the illegal immigrants and so-called asylum seekers.  (Whoops - off topic!)

Saw a guy get out one of these at CM Airport if I remember...poor dude.

 

Dog van style.

And this is what we had/still have? 555

They are used as needed.  Just as in other large police departments around the world . Some are used consistently.  Some aren’t. 

On 7/31/2023 at 6:23 PM, arick said:

Only a couple of dozen foreigners in Bangkok at the moment

What?

On 7/31/2023 at 6:31 PM, billd766 said:

I also believe that they are not necessarily for foreigners, but for the Thai people who may be arrested for protesting.

 

Why would this come under immigration jurisdiction?

On 7/31/2023 at 6:23 PM, arick said:

Only a couple of dozen foreigners in Bangkok at the moment meanwhile all these police vans are sitting there empty maybe they should try to sell them at the market. 

You do understand that not all foreigners are tourists and expats… don’t you?

IMHO, you should just care for yourself and let the Thais care for themselves. 

On 7/31/2023 at 6:43 PM, arick said:

It's not Bangkok police it's immigration police

Immigration police are Bangkok (RTP) police officers.

On 7/31/2023 at 6:23 PM, arick said:

Only a couple of dozen foreigners in Bangkok at the moment

Garbage.    Think you need to get some accurate stats.

On 8/2/2023 at 6:05 AM, 2baht said:

On 7/31/2023 at 6:31 PM, billd766 said:

I also believe that they are not necessarily for foreigners, but for the Thai people who may be arrested for protesting.

 

Why would this come under immigration jurisdiction?

Because IOs are RTP officers.

On 7/31/2023 at 7:12 PM, IvorBiggun2 said:

Only the first 2 vans are Immigration Police vans. The rest are probably standby vehicles as Billd766 indicates.

They're all police vehicles, hence the RTP logo on the doors, IB is just a division of the RTP.

they keep a van on standby , just for those who ask stupid questions about them on here

On 7/31/2023 at 6:23 PM, arick said:

Only a couple of dozen foreigners in Bangkok at the moment 

And you know this how ?

On 7/31/2023 at 6:23 PM, arick said:

Only a couple of dozen foreigners

Bet you haven't looked in the building sites, etc, Burmese, Laos, Cambodians, Vietnamese, are all foreigners and one building site raid could easily fill all those vans 

37 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

And you know this how ?

counted the green men from Mars

8 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

counted the green men from Mars

American have the aliens l. Here it's just bad foreigners 

1 hour ago, arick said:

American have the aliens l. Here it's just bad foreigners 

Technically foreigners in Thailand are aliens !!