Crackdown On Gambling Ahead Of Euro 2012: Thai Police Spokesman

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Crackdown on gambling ahead of Euro 2012

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Police nationwide have been instructed to reinforce prevention of gambling before and during the upcoming UEFA European Football Championship or Euro 2012, which starts next month.

Police spokesman Pol Maj Gen Piya Utayoh said all police stations have been told to warn all service venues such as hotels, restaurants and karaokes not to support or get involved with the betting on Euro 2012.

Those found allowing gambling at their venues would be charged with violating the gambling Act and their business permits be revoked.

The Euro 2012 football matches are scheduled to run from June 8 until July 1 in Poland and Ukraine.

The spokesman added police would also ask administrators of educational places to monitor their students so they would not become involved in gambling on the Euro matches.

Police Department also asked for cooperation from yjr Information and Communication Technology Ministry in banning websites that provided gambling services.

-- The Nation 2012-05-16

[canardo]

Whats the point of gambling the EURO 2012, if it is for sure already that Germany will win it anyway...

;o)

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[MEL1]

BANGKOK: -- Police nationwide have been instructed to reinforce prevention of gambling before and during the upcoming UEFA European Football Championship or Euro 2012, which starts next month.

It is the police themsleves who run the rings and nets.

Of course they want no gambling outside of their areas of 'execution', as they are the 72-76% takers of normal gambling payouts to the banker.

The banker never loses..... so prevention before other causes become alluded to!

-mel.

[rkidlad]

They must have had nearly every crackdown under the sun. Why have i never heard anyone sanction a crackdown on 'corruption'

Surely this is the root of all these problems.

[khunron13]

New TAT Motto: Thailand - The Hub for Crackdowns!

[fxe1200]

I am sick to hear of all these crackdowns. They are only implemented to secure the second income for the police and some politicians. The whole farce is so obvious, that not even one attorney in Thailand would prosecute you for publishing corresponding reader"s letters, or statements in public. This society is completely rotten. But Thailand for sure is not the only one.

[chrisinth]

If it makes them feel better to announce the same message again...............

As an aside, does anyone think that the logo for the Euro 2012 is a little bit off? You got the guy in yellow & blue coming in for a tackle with studs showing?

Good example!

Note to self: Get a life!!

[andy1308]

Just look at the front pages of most of Thailand's sports newspapers - they have ads for the Thai language website of Ladbrokes.

I delved a little deeper into this subject a few years back for a magazine article I was writing. At that time there were no laws in place to prohibit the advertising of gambling websites in Thailand, and of course the Thai operations of websites such as Ladbrokes are all outside of the country.

[asdecas]

Good to see that firm Thai tradition, the crackdown, is making a comeback. After a lean year in 2011, crackdowns are moving back to centre stage, where they belong.

[alant]

I bet they manage to catch mmmmm, well, lots.

[Beetlejuice]

I`m laying 10 to 1 odds that they`ll never enforce it.

[Johnniey]

Just look at the front pages of most of Thailand's sports newspapers - they have ads for the Thai language website of Ladbrokes.

I delved a little deeper into this subject a few years back for a magazine article I was writing. At that time there were no laws in place to prohibit the advertising of gambling websites in Thailand, and of course the Thai operations of websites such as Ladbrokes are all outside of the country.

Most of the people gambling are young students and don't have the means to fund the Ladbrokes site. There are countless other sites too.

In my are and all the areas I've lived in 20 years, the gambling is controlled by the police. Crackdown, my arse, they're just limiting their competition, similar to the Taksin drug wars 10 years ago.

[Narratio]

I was reading the history of Thaksin's attempt to build a trinational gambling casino upcountry before the coup, but the old ladies chewing betel nut and playing cards with the police officers wife, two houses down, were distracting me. And then the lottery ticket seller walked past followed by my neighbour's wife, who came round asking what numbers my wife wanted in the weekly underground lottery number betting syndicate, And I suddenly I remembered - "Oh yeah, Gambling is illegal!"

[spidermike007]

No, the police stations need to warm themselves. That den of thieves is primarily responsible for letting the gambling dens operate with impunity. There is simply too much money involved. There may be only about 50 policemen in thailand that say no to money offered, and they are probably from comfortable families.

[mic6ard]

BLAH BLAH BLAH same BS before any big international Football/soccer Events.

[mithunonthenet]

Whats the point of gambling the EURO 2012, if it is for sure already that Germany will win it anyway...

;o)

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Hey, I have my bets on England this time I know, I know... but I just got a feeling they'll make it far.

[oldsailor35]

Would'nt it be interesting if the 'illustrious' Bangkok Post assigned one of their 'top' journo's to list all these amazing Crackdowns of the last 12 months. And then detail all the subsequent results and follow ups by the BIB.

[Stokakrishna]

Crackdown on drugs, prostitution. teenagers on valentines day, drinkers during songkran or new year

Nothing works.

they should make a crackdown on Thai Police and Thai politicians

We all know TIT

or better :

LC = Lawless country

[TheCure]

Since most of the illegal gambling dens are controlled by police generals, implementing the crackdown would amount to commercial suicide .

No chance the general is going to give up on his new Bentley continental ( illegally imported without paying import duties an excise tax, of course ) .

[Nigel1500]

Whats the point of gambling the EURO 2012, if it is for sure already that Germany will win it anyway...

...

But what's the point of EURO 2012 if you can't gamble on it?

[theajarn]

...another crackdown.

[Tanlic]

I seem to remember reading about this when they last clamped down on footy gambling, they decided to stop football punters having a bet on the internet.

Betfair covered an abundance of sports to have a bet on, but somehow it was only UK horse racing that got blocked and apparently you could still bet on German French and American racing and of course the footy was still accesssable. Betya ex pat racing fans loved that balls up!!

I could never fathom out why they stop grown adults deciding for themsleves in what they claim is a free country.

They should get with the times and stop trying to project an image that is clearly false

Edited May 18, 2012 by Tanlic