Does International News Actually Reaches The Gov Here ?

[ManilaLover]

British national Jim McCormick of Global Technical Ltd has been arrested because his 'bomb detectors' appeared to be a scam and proved totally fake. But reading the article in todays Bangkok Post it looks like as if this news has never reached the local gov, or actually, it reached them but it seems they don't want to know the truth

The GT200 bomb and drug detetector is not the only model in use in Thailand. The GT200 is used widely in the South for bomb detection.

ONCB secretary-general Krisna Polananta yesterday said his agency had been using the Alpha 6 device since 2007 to combat drug smuggling along the northern border. He said the ONCB could not afford to buy the GT200 as they were not suited to the office's work and were too expensive. The GT200 costs between 900,000 and 1.2 million baht. The GT200 is superior to the Alpha 6 in terms of its ability to detect both drugs and bombs from a distance. Serious doubts have been raised about the effectiveness of the GT200, made by British-based Global Technical Ltd and used extensively by security forces in the three southernmost provinces. The army's Anothai bomb disposal unit yesterday demonstrated the use of the GT200 before media representatives at its ordnance department in Ratchaburi. They worked without a hitch. Unit chief Taweesak Jantrasin said the devices had helped thwart many bomb attacks in the South. However, he said, the GT200 should be tested against other detectors to compare its effectiveness. (really?) The Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 said on Tuesday there were two incidents in which the GT200 had failed to work in Yala and Narathiwat last year.

...nothing about the loss of face because they have been terribly scammed

[Soutpeel]

Makes a change doesn't it ??..... Farang's scamming a Thai's...LOL