Chalerm to recruit police as teachers in Deep South

BANGKOK, 24 January 2013 (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has proposed a plan to recruit border patrol police officers as teachers in the Deep South in the wake of another deadly gun attack on educators.

A 51-year-old teacher was shot dead in the premises of a school in Narathiwat province on Wednesday, bringing the death toll of teachers in the restive region to 158.

Police Captain Chalerm is holding talks with related agencies to discuss plans to recruit police officers to teach in the three southern border provinces. He reasoned that security personnel who can carry arms on school grounds would be able to defend themselves better against insurgent threats.

He further suggested that a heavier police presence in the border areas is needed. Over 6,000 more policemen are being recruited from nearby provinces and are set to be deployed to insurgent-hit districts.

-- NNT 2013-01-24

This is great news !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now when a policeman is caught doing something really wrong, instead of the famous and classic inactive post, they can now be sent down to the south and try to do some good by teaching...

But wait..........if every police man bought their position for a million baht, and they spend all their time figuring out how to extort money from people, what could they possibly teach children??

Edited January 24, 201313 yr by EyesWideOpen

One suspects the only thing they will be teaching is how to extort tea money and possibly firearms training...

Just think of the tea money chances for marking the schoolwork

I thought you had to have certain qualifications to teach?

Possibly Chalerm's son could be sent south to teach after all he has been pronounced qualified to teach police.

He's obviously been on the sauce again.

This comedy of errors is set to go on and on and on and on...

Sadly.

How do you convince a policeman, extorting money from 10 year old kids can be quite lucrative?

I thought you had to have certain qualifications to teach?

Possibly Chalerm's son could be sent south to teach after all he has been pronounced qualified to teach police.

Excellent idea. Duang has proven his marksmanship and is a Police instructor to boot.

Chalerm should offer him up post haste.

Chalerm is beyond a joke even for a Thai politician.

Presumably this cop teacher would be armed just waiting for the chance for some muslim punk to make his day.

Edited January 24, 201313 yr by bigbamboo

Chalerm might be coming out of one his seemly many stuper stages again. Give the man his bottle and tuck him in bed for the duration.

He has to be one of the best comercials for the use of humans as cannon fodder, we could ever hope to see.

Police state

What he has to do with schools?

.... gambeling, drogs an kidnapping 22 years old swiss girls!?

Is he now sending his son, who (may) killed, to the south?

I am happy, not live in this .... country again.

Edited January 24, 201313 yr by Somrak

Unbelievable. One minute they're trying to improve the qualifications of teachers and next they don't need them. Why not employ policemen to go to schools so where they can concentrate on stopping the killing and let the teachers concentrate on teaching. Of course this would cost money to employ 2 people.

Just out of interest do teachers cost more than police?

Unqualified as teachers, qualified as licensed to shoot. Great solution. Again, Amazing Thailand. Is there no end to these stupid ideas from people who have no common sense or logic? Wake up Thailand... throw this government out whilst your still have a country.

Why don't they just station them at the schools and let the teachers teach? Guess too much to think about.

It seems to me that most of the southern insurgents are pretty good at ambush and surprise attacks.

Does chalerm think that police acting as teachers will always be alert enough to notice and defeat the insurgents?

So how do they concentrate on teaching?

You make so many claims mr. chalerm about how you will fix everything, so show some results, fix the problem, and stop

trying to put illogical band-aids on the problem.

By the way how did the appointment with mahatmir go?

How many teachers have been killed, again?

This might just rid of a few more corrupt BIB, without the being caught red handed part, especially if they've got their back to the class.

-mel.

I thought you had to have certain qualifications to teach?

Possibly Chalerm's son could be sent south to teach after all he has been pronounced qualified to teach police.

He also has knowledge of small firearms, I believe.

Crackpot scheme.

Couldn't they just use Sgt. Ja Choey instead? Cheaper, safer and probably more knowledgeable.

He's obviously been on the sauce again.

This comedy of errors is set to go on and on and on and on...

Sadly.

Every time I think of him I think of Laural and Hardy an old time comedy duo.

The police are sh@t scared to be transfered there so you can sure the cowards wont want to teach there..

Didn`t he suggest having soldiers as teachers 2 weeks ago ?!?! JFK....some countries really needs to be measured by the politicians they choose to run their country !!!!

having failed to supply village gamnans with automatic weapons, Chalerm shows us he cannot be thwarted by infiltrating the school system.

the man is a genius and merits both respect and awe

What he has to do with schools?

.... gambeling, drogs an kidnapping 22 years old swiss girls!?

Is he now sending his son, who (may) killed, to the south?

I am happy, not live in this .... country again.

see you on the other side, you will be missed

More guns in schools... what could go wrong?

total disaster....where do they get these "ideas"? - I use the term in the loosest possible sense because it seems devoid of any real cranial activity.

More guns in schools... what could go wrong?

Thai police too...there the biggest villains around although the south could be where they move all the ones to inactive duty pending prosecution ..

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A combination of the fantastic four, Rambo and Judge Dread should sort out the problem in no time