If you have the correct driving license, your bike/vehicle license is current and you wear your helmet or use your seatbelt

you have nothing to worry about at a road block unless you are DUI

If not cop it sweet and pay the fine, they do not confiscate you bike/vehicle as they do in most countries for unlicensed

driving or DUI and the fines are very low, Not wearing a helmet in Australia the fine was 4500 baht probably a lot more now

Even if riding a bicycle

They charged 4,500 baht - why on earth would they charge you in baht?

they are bad apples those Aussie cops. Theyll take baht, rand, ringit and rubles

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I don't for sure about the TPV but the volunteers at the Immigration Office (PIV) in Phuket Town ( They are not related in any way to the Tourist Police Volunteers) are thoroughly background checked by the Thai Police in Bangkok and the police representative of the embassy of the country where he is from. The special investigation department does not handle complaints on the volunteers for this you have to the commander of the unit the volunteer belongs to.

No volunteer has any legal right to detain any body but as anybody else they have the right to prevent anybody for leaving (without fisical force) in case of a offence so he can handed over to the police.

I'm no legal expert, but ....

As far as detaining anyone is concerned, a TPV has no more authority than any other citizen ==> they can make a 'citizen's arrest' (which is not an actual arrest but a detention'), until those with authority to arrest the person arrive. For example, a pickpocket could be restrained from running away. But the force used must be reasonable and the minimum necessary.

So if you run away from a police checkpoint because you don't have a driving licence (civil offence), I don't think that the TPV could physically restrain you. If you ran away because you had just crashed your motorbike into another vehicle, then I think they could physically restrain you.

The TPVs who are checking driving licences/imposing fines are doing so with the authority of their superiors. You may not agree with what they are doing, but they do have the authority to do this.

Simon

I'm no legal expert, but ....

As far as detaining anyone is concerned, a TPV has no more authority than any other citizen ==> they can make a 'citizen's arrest' (which is not an actual arrest but a detention'), until those with authority to arrest the person arrive. For example, a pickpocket could be restrained from running away. But the force used must be reasonable and the minimum necessary.

So if you run away from a police checkpoint because you don't have a driving licence (civil offence), I don't think that the TPV could physically restrain you. If you ran away because you had just crashed your motorbike into another vehicle, then I think they could physically restrain you.

The TPVs who are checking driving licences/imposing fines are doing so with the authority of their superiors. You may not agree with what they are doing, but they do have the authority to do this.

Simon

They wont be stopping me thats for sure. I'll drive over to the real police if they are checking licences

If you have the correct driving license, your bike/vehicle license is current and you wear your helmet or use your seatbelt

you have nothing to worry about at a road block unless you are DUI

If not cop it sweet and pay the fine, they do not confiscate you bike/vehicle as they do in most countries for unlicensed

driving or DUI and the fines are very low, Not wearing a helmet in Australia the fine was 4500 baht probably a lot more now

Even if riding a bicycle

They charged 4,500 baht - why on earth would they charge you in baht?

OK just to make you happy $150

Oooops according to the site that must not be mentioned, one of these fine examples has been arrested in a sting selling and possession of ya bah..

Jail time coming up for him i would think...crazy guy..maybe didn't pay the right mates in BIB?

I guess there is one less pain in the ass at the circle or Sai Yuan now. Garry, one of the really annoying TVPs got busted today selling ice. So much for background checks.

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What a goof.

Too bad it wasn't that jerk-weed that has the Irish last name, I was hoping to see his picture.

What an idiot - he joined the TVP to make contacts for his drug deals. I hope he gets a lot of time behind bars and then booted out of Thailand.

What a goof.

Too bad it wasn't that jerk-weed that has the Irish last name, I was hoping to see his picture.

there needs to be a big cull of these TVPs. I mean it wasnt so long ago one got charged with murder.

What an idiot - he joined the TVP to make contacts for his drug deals. I hope he gets a lot of time behind bars and then booted out of Thailand.

He was shaking shop owners down too around Chalong. I know first hand

Give him the lethal injection.

Just goes to show the quality guys that apply for this job.

nice guy, meet him a couple of times, am surprised..

nice guy, meet him a couple of times, am surprised..

I'm never surprised when it's tourist police volunteers.

I mean really, who comes to Thailand to do that job? Someone who wasn't able to be a police officer back in their home country.

Any farang volunteer to me is a loony and I ignore them completely.

Heard about this guy when he tried to insert himself into the middle of a mediation process. He wanted a big cut for

himself to help sort out the matter.

Was told to F off.

nice guy, meet him a couple of times, am surprised..

I'm never surprised when it's tourist police volunteers.

I mean really, who comes to Thailand to do that job? Someone who wasn't able to be a police officer back in their home country.

Any farang volunteer to me is a loony and I ignore them completely.

well he have business running here so i think it's pretty smart strategi to make friends with cops and play around..

nice guy, meet him a couple of times, am surprised..

I'm never surprised when it's tourist police volunteers.

I mean really, who comes to Thailand to do that job? Someone who wasn't able to be a police officer back in their home country.

Any farang volunteer to me is a loony and I ignore them completely.

well he have business running here so i think it's pretty smart strategi to make friends with cops and play around..

Just not with meth though.....

Incredibly stupid to deal drugs.

Even more incredibly stupid to deal to Thais.......

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