webfact Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Jet-ski operators, beach vendors to protect Phuket tourists Patong Police Superintendent Arayapan Pukbuakao says recruiting beachfront workers as police volunteers is expected to make Patong more tourist friendly. Photo: Warisa Temran PHUKET: -- Patong Police plan to recruit beachfront workers as their eyes and ears in protecting Phuket tourists this high season, in addition to installing more closed-circuit televisions (CCTV) cameras. “Usually, there are a lot of robberies during the high season. We don’t really have enough officers to take care of all the tourists during peak season,” explained Patong Police Superintendent Arayapan Pukbuakao. The recruitment of motorcycle taxi drivers, jet-ski rental operators, beachfront shop owners and other people who work along the beachfront as Civil Protection Volunteers is part of Patong Police Station’s plan to gear up for November. “I plan to recruit about 50 volunteers to help keep watch in Patong. Whenever volunteers see something wrong, they can report it directly to the police, who will be there right on time – before anything worse happens,” said Col Arayapan. Patong Police also plan to spend 15 million baht on installing more than 100 CCTV cameras. “Currently, we have only 16 functioning cameras along Soi Bangla. Originally we had 36 cameras in the Patong area, but many of them are not working,” Col Arayapan explained. He added that more powerful “pan-able” cameras were needed in three locations that had never been monitored with CCTV cameras before: near the Kalim Police Box, the Patong Hill intersection and along the road between Patong and Karon. “We need only standard CCTV cameras in other areas, and about 100 cameras in total to cover the whole Patong area,” said Col Arayapan. The installation of the CCTV cameras and the recruitment of beachfront workers as volunteers is expected to help police monitor Patong and make it more tourist friendly, he added. Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/detail.asp?id=11226 -- Phuket Gazette 2011-10-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endure Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 "The installation of the CCTV cameras and the recruitment of beachfront workers as volunteers is expected to help police monitor Patong and make it more tourist friendly, he added." The installation of the CCTV cameras is expected to put yet another backhander in someone's pocket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chang_paarp Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Fox in charge of the hen house comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katasyd Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Hahaha. Jetski operaters and beach workers being recruited as tourist police? Surely this can't be true. This is laughable and will cause more problems than solving them by giving the scammers even more police power. Happy high season.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgphuket Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I hurt myself when I fell off my chair laughing. Did he really say he would ask the main criminals in Phuket to watch out for tourists??? OMG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USExpat Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Oh great give the scam artist and crooks a badge to add to their bags of tricks to rip off tourist....I am going to have to send this to my friends who work at travel agencies.....ROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelepulse Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Now they can mediate in their own fines and cut out those pesky BIB's that want 20% of the fleecing that the extortionate jet ski boys demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdenner Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 “I plan to recruit about 50 volunteers to help keep watch in Patong. Whenever volunteers see something wrong, they can report it directly to the police, who will be there right on time – before anything worse happens,” said Col Arayapan. He has been misquoted! Really said:- “I plan to recruit about 50 volunteers to help keep watch in Patong. Whenever volunteers see something wrong, they can cover it up quickly so as the police can be kept at arms length, before anything worse happens and my BiB are caught receiving bribes. They will be paid directly to me!” said Col Arayapan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 This guy must be on crack. .... Or the power of the jet ski scammers is so complete they have now talked the police into imbuing themselves with quasi police powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurentbkk Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 any other "good" ideas like that ? I stopped to go to Phuket years ago as well as many of my friends , expats or tourists ...... There are better , cheaper funnier and SAFER .....what next ? jet ski operator governor of phuket ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frtiz Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 (edited) They forgot to put in the "SATIRE" mark in the left top corner. Edited October 18, 2011 by frtiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Patong Police Superintendent Arayapan Pukbuakao The bling on his uniform must have made him delirious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdecas Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Put the arsonists in charge of the fire station? This one really takes the McVities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSL Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I think the Patong Police Superintendent needs to a GOOGLE: Phuket tuk tuk Phuket jet ski These are the people they want looking after tourists? Good Grief! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbreath Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 This is a joke, right?? Oh well, TIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I hurt myself when I fell off my chair laughing. Did he really say he would ask the main criminals in Phuket to watch out for tourists??? OMG! Police volunteer shirts for all criminals. Is that what they want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogal Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I wonder how much he paid for his posting there? Must have had to pay more than normal! I have put it off for some time now but I will definitely be warning others to just stay away from Phuket (Patong) from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 "The installation of the CCTV cameras and the recruitment of beachfront workers as volunteers is expected to help police monitor Patong and make it more tourist friendly, he added." The installation of the CCTV cameras is expected to put yet another backhander in someone's pocket... The whole concept of volunteers just adds another hand to feed in the tea money food chain. These so called volunteers should more appropriately be called lookouts for the perps. What it does do is insulate the BIB with an excuse for things gone wrong..."We arrived soon after our volunteer notified us but were not prepared for the scope of the crime based on what he told us." or "Our volunteer was confused and excited and gave us a wrong address." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintofsilence Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Very easy to see that high authorities don't want lose income from these scams millions of baht a year Thailand is making out of this , Phuket , Pattaya and other resorts may all have one connection receiving big kick backs. Last year it was reported TAT complaints line were not allowed to respond to complaints about jet ski's . The Mayor of Pattaya was hushed up on his pattaya future Facebook page and stopped responding to questions about jet ski's. Reports that the new call centre are not responding ,Tourist police won't help . Jet ski scammers are protected now they have been given more protection , every country should be putting warnings out in alternative ways other than just web sites. Authorities in Thailand could stop these scams in one day if they were serious they have all the evidence they need . One of the most disgraceful parts of these scams is how photo manipulation seems to be occurring and not investigated when reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Fox in charge of the hen house comes to mind. Patong Police also plan to spend 15 million baht on installing more than 100 CCTV cameras. 15 million for installing empty boxes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardinBKK Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Oh great give the scam artist and crooks a badge to add to their bags of tricks to rip off tourist....I am going to have to send this to my friends who work at travel agencies.....ROFL Yes, I really must agree with you on this one. This is the last straw...Phuket is forever off my "get away from BKK list." Why bother with this nonsense? It is the most absurd example of franchising corruption I have ever seen. It is doubly absurd now when Thai Tourism is at a tipping point. The news around the world is, "Thailand is flooded, the infrastructure is damaged, there are desperate and hungry people everywhere and crocodiles on the prowl. Do they really want a New York Times feature that points to "Criminals with Badges" ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I hurt myself when I fell off my chair laughing. Did he really say he would ask the main criminals in Phuket to watch out for tourists??? OMG! Why? Where does it say that Phuket taxi drivers are being enlisted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintofsilence Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 (edited) As an example Pattaya beach is covered in cameras and scammers are still scamming and assaulting tourists in. Clear view of the cameras and nothing happens. Edited October 18, 2011 by saintofsilence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sucher Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 The day that Statement was made must have been Thailands answer to our April 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czGLoRy Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 one word sums this up LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukeleto Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Hahahaaahahaaa, seriously??? I had to open this thread as I was sure the heading was a mistake or some kind of intended play on words. My goodness me the mind boggles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanaFoods Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 What, ya mean no one is defending this as a plausibly sound decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry555 Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I was just imagining how this would go .... jet ski operator , "please mr policeman i wanna report some of my co-workers who just have beaten up some tourists because they didn't wanna pay 50.000 baht for some imagenary scratches on my jetski , can you please put these crooks in jail for a few years , rofl . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apalink_thailand Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 "The recruitment of motorcycle taxi drivers, jet-ski rental operators, beachfront shop owners and other people who work along the beachfront as Civil Protection Volunteers is part of Patong Police Station’s plan to gear up for November." Its quite laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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