Is it really that hard to identify overstayers? Surely a comparison between those granted 60 day stays,  against departures and extensions, will identify those who arrived and didn’t leave.

 

How is a drone 30 feet up in the air going to hunt overstayers?

 

They’re just talking gobbledygook.

Orwellian!

1 hour ago, Quentin Zen said:

Maybe already answered.    I just got a fresh stamp this week, so I'm OK.

 

Let's say I'm 0n overstay.    No clue if it goes into some centralized computer system, but I'm pretty sure it does.  OK.

 

Now, no clue if this information goes to every province.   

 

OK, now I travel and stay in a nice hotel.  I say "nice" because let's say 100% of the time they photocopy my passport and bring it to the police station.  Or do something online.  TM30, whatever, something.  Some do photocopy my stamp, some don't.  some really do nothing.  Let's say they follow the law.

 

I'm guessing that the police/immigration will come and arrest me.

 

correct?

 

I'm just surprised I've never seen this before.  

 

Maybe the same with trains, bus station, etc....  

it’s the issue isn’t it? Lots of data collection, no meaningful use. 

Amazing that these Thai officials don't understand that tourists don't want to be controlled and tracked 24/7. This Orwellian BS will be reason enough already to avoid visiting Thailand for very many.

Maybe, to show how serious they are, they should deploy these drones...

 

 

That's the image of split second after 8 overstayers were detected...

Because heaven forbid the 1000s of officers currently on the payroll actually get off their arses and do work.

For the protection of foreigner tourists, does this drone will also identify minor prostitutes and "feminine" prostitutes having a dick ?

Hasn't Pattaya already become unattractive enough as a tourist destination? They seriously think adding more surveillance will entice more tourists to come?

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The goal is clear: to keep the city safe, welcoming, and free from those with outstanding legal troubles.

The goal is clear: to keep esteemed police officers in safe and welcoming air-conditioning, and free from any weight-losing exercise, able to snooze at the drop of a hat.

Bring back the idea of tourist ID ankle bracelets, sync them with the drones and then wait 30 days after the miscreant is actually identified to try and find him, assuming he/s not already left the building/country !

So now they can spot overstayers with drones?? Yeah....sure....🤣🤣🤣

Can they pick up envelopes that would be good 

I imagine the locals themselves will not be overly impressed with the invasion of their privacy.

And how many (months/weeks/days or just hours) before someone notices the drones are paying far too much attention to bikini-clad ladies on the beach than they are to "looking for overstaying foreigners".
(Won't even bother with the need for hi-def, real-time digital imaging and bio-metric scanning linked to a database of known overstayers, with roving police patrols ready to swoop in to catch the offenders before they wander off the beach.)

Seriously. Are they really thinking they're going to catch thousands of "over-stayers" hanging around at the beach ?!??!?

Someone might want to take a very close look at the contract for those drones and who is pushing them for acceptance.

(I would suspect that they'd use them for a couple weeks, catch no one, have to bury a couple of "naughty" clips, have a bunch of drones crash and injure people, or get smashed out of the air by irate tourists and locals and the rest get shelved because no one knows how to maintain them. And then the story will just quietly fade away. Like the GT200 fake bomb scanners.)

 

6 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

Well perhaps the money might be spent on making sure we can cross roads safely without getting mowed down by bikes and honking cars.I'll take my chance with the bad guys .

Just try looking befor you cross and.domr.be so entitled 👍 

Drones won’t fall into holes in the pavement…Many Pattaya police are missing unaccounted for because of the various holes ! Too many holes in Pattaya ! 

They can't catch overstayers 'in time' despite their computer systems, fingerprints, pics, and myriads of paper copies of everything... Good luck with AI drones! 😆 

Hopefully they don’t order BJI the cheap copy of DJI and they start falling out of the sky.  Good idea but with Thai follow through it’s bound to be an expensive failure.  Sort of like Thai roads, sidewalks, drains, wiring, lighting, CCTV, etc. etc. etc. 

4 hours ago, NedR69 said:

Maybe use them at night also...find those tourists having sex on the beach.  

I hope so. They can send me copies anytime but must be male/female or female/female and under 40.🤩

Just another reason for tourists to stay away. If I were a tourist, or an expat considering Pattaya, and I knew about this program of overhead drones spying on us on a constant basis, I don't think it would provide much motivation to visit.

 

It really does sound like a big brother state, a bit of a 1984 kind of vibe. No thanks. 

 

 

Will the Drones be fitted with telephoto ‘QR’ code payment processing to provide a rapid & seamless ‘Catch & Release’ service?

 

😎😎😎

Usual hot air from someone who wants to make himself look intelligent but doesn't understand the complexity and restrictions of rolling out a program such as this.  If they want to go down this route they'd be far better off with static cameras strategically placed but as others have said, they need to be prepared for a decline in tourism due to some objecting to having their every move watched.  I suppose anything for the BiB not to have to leave Soi 9 on a hot afternoon though!

Ralf001,Going back to when cameras were first installed.The Govt said they had 50,000 pictures but no money to process.You may be too young to have read this!

4 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Ralf001,Going back to when cameras were first installed.The Govt said they had 50,000 pictures but no money to process.You may be too young to have read this!

 

I'm sure money will 'turn up' for AI drones, even though they didn't even have money to process those pics... 😆 

yet they have virtually no low tech systems in place - what will happen is a waste of money and partially trained operatives and probably damage to property.

OK, I know that this will turn out to be another absurdity dreamed up by someone sitting at a desk thinking they need to be productive (a momentary branding fart here). That said, the very idea is dystopian. They already have cameras, many not working, everywhere do they really need to be this intrusive to chase people down for a crime that is of such little relevance or harm to society. 

Sorry Mr Mayor but Lazada has out-thunk you 555

 

 

9 hours ago, Aleksey75 said:

Can the drones see through and distinguish those who overstayed their visas?!?! 

 

 

just kidding.....

they forgot to mention everyone entering the Kingdom will be tagged with a bar code so the drones can read it  

 

Here we go more 1984 Orwellian ideas.

I thought this was a joke but then it isn't the 1st April.

Will the drone carry a QR code, so you can pay the bribe contribution to the BIB benevolent fund? Or will ot take cash?