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Many Thanks To The Thai Police And Khun Abhisit


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We've all had a go at the Thai police from time to time.

However tonight my firends and I decided to go to Soi Cowboy for a few beers.

Out of the blue the Thai Toursist Police arrived.......No guys they weren't looking for money.

A Thai policeman who had one star on his lapel and looked about 30 year old approached us. (turned out he was born in 1960)

Being of farang mind when I saw him pull out a large folder I thought: Here we go another give a a donation for injured Thais that goes straight into the bck pocket

Not a bit of it this guy gives us a form which outlines the Curfew Rules.

Then he spends 10 to 15 minutes expalining to us what to do and what not to do.................he was cheeerful, well mannered and his eplenation was that of a very educated individual.

He emphasised the importance of the curfew and explained how it was in everyones interest to abide by the law.

When he left Tilac a friend of ine who has no time for most Thais prasied this guy saying now there's a man who really cares about his job.

After visiting several other Farang he left to get on with the task at hand. Within the hour or so the skies opened up and Soi Cowboy looked like a pond had been planted in the middle of it.

No one was for moving and by 11.15 pm dozens of Thais and Farang waited in the hope of getting some transport home.

You always have it in the back of your mind that if the Thai Police catch me what are they going to do? Guess what ?

At 11.45pm I decided time to make a move and there I was plodding through puddles in the centre of BKK. Next thing I know out of the blue a policeman stops me and asks if I know there's a curfew on. Oh! Oh!

I told the policeman I had gone to 7 for ciggies but it had closed and then I got stopped in the rain.

I was thinking here we go when surprisingly the police guy pulls out a packet of cigarettes. hands me 1/2 a dozen and tells me to jump on his motorcycle.

The policeman took me right to my door would not take 1 baht for his trouble. He said not to worry Thailand now has a good man in charge and thing will be back to normal soon.

Never had a Thai discuss anything like that with me before so I was a bit shell shocked.

Is this the way forward or a one off? springs to mind

I'll give Abhisit his due though if this man genuinely wants to see Thailand prosper he's going about it the right way.

No doubt many of you will shoot me down in flames but my experience of the Thai police is they showed me today they care about their jobs aren't all out to rob you and they are right behind Mr Abhisit.

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Nice break to read something nice about Thailand and rare praise for PM Abhisit at the moment. Poor guy is in a jam even from international press. I also wish him to survive and lead Thailand to the right path.

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Nice story George, i want to hope that Abhisit integrity will set some good example out there, and possibly some cops start to do something good for this lovely country.

We keep on talking about laws and reforms, but i believe the real change stands on the individual.

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Derogatory nickname in topic title and OP altered to real name, and posts quoting or referring to nickname deleted.

Members are reminded to use a politician's real name when referring to them.

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What really bothers me about this OP:

Now why doesn't the OP just start obeying the curfew rules, and stop presuming upon the good graces of the friendly Thai policemen he happened to run into?

If they had slapped you with a legal 2,000 baht fine (or whatever the standard penalty is), with a smile, of course, would you still be posting your adulation here? :)

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What really bothers me about this OP:

Now why doesn't the OP just start obeying the curfew rules, and stop presuming upon the good graces of the friendly Thai policemen he happened to run into?

If they had slapped you with a legal 2,000 baht fine (or whatever the standard penalty is), with a smile, of course, would you still be posting your adulation here? :D

Correct 2,000 B fine and 1 Month jail time, so he didn't do his job wel and still getting compliments :)

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The Royal Thai Police has shown NO professionalism at all since the beginning of the Red shirts rally. They have constantly looked somewhere else when things happened. They never made any move to stop the stages set up, they never made a move to stop reds from breaking every single law, they were blind when Reds brought more tires to burn, when reds were leaving from the sealed areas to provoke the army, when reds were setting buildings on fire, when reds were intimidating people, when reds were searching cars, etc....etc.....

But as soon as they had a chance, and no later than yesterday on Sukhumvit 38, they started to collect money again.....

Yes Abhisit is the man, but he had no support at all from Police

So no, no thanks to the Police.

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Thai police are scumbags. its the army I am impressed with with. I think the army did a great job the whole time they were there.

PM Abhisit did what he had to do. no country in the world would of waited two months to remove the red shirts.

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yeah fantastic guy, any guy that orders the murder of unarmed civilians in order to keep in power that he could not win in an election is ok by me, I am sure the families of the murdered feel the same way about this shining light in Thai politics. :)

Did Abhisit order the killing? Wouldn't lives be saved if the demonstration was at the open space at the government house or Rajdumnoen Avenue? Who ordered the move from there to the concrete jungle of Rajprasong? Come on, be fair!

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If they had slapped you with a legal 2,000 baht fine (or whatever the standard penalty is), with a smile, of course, would you still be posting your adulation here? :)

Probably the worst thing is you might spend the night in a police lock-up. Having been in Bangkok during the curfews of 1976 and 1977, I'd recommend heading home an hour before the curfew starts, in case of rain, no taxis, or whatever.

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Numerous posts trying to turn this topic into a political argument have been removed.

Please do not turn this topic into a political debate or the topic will get locked.

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No matter anywhere in the world there will be corrupt police.

But also there a goo police.

Do not say that all police are corrupt that is not true.

Maybe you have had experiences with them.

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Thai police are scumbags. its the army I am impressed with with. I think the army did a great job the whole time they were there.

PM Abhisit did what he had to do. no country in the world would of waited two months to remove the red shirts.

I'm not so sure the army is any better. Watermelons is what they called them. Didn't they have to bring in troops from the south and west when the majority of the army wouldn't do anything against the protesters? Remember their performance trying to get to Bangkok from the north? They got stopped by some reds and just sat there. Real, tough army. :)

Great post about the police. I have one relative in the police and he is an honest cop. That's why he is soooooo poor!!!!! And he readily admits his honesty has halted his promotions. He has refused to pay kickbacks for promotions or transfers to "honey pot" assignments....so there are a few out there.

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