webfact Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Police urged to tackle issue of missing personsNoppadon Sritaweekart,Waraporn Sangwan,Ousanee SaensukThe NationBANGKOK: -- ON AVERAGE, three people are reported missing every day in Thailand, and two of them are children. Backed with such statistics, the Mirror Foundation and its supporters yesterday called on police to do more to address the problem."Serious efforts must be made to provide tangible solutions. The National Police Office can start by setting up a task force to handle reports directly on missing children and to conduct efficient and thorough investigations based on such reports," the foundation's Ekaluck Lhumchomkhae said yesterday.He was speaking as he arrived at the National Police Office.He also submitted a list of more than 28,000 people who agreed with the foundation's call for the establishment of a government-run Centre to Locate Missing Persons. Manee Thongchum, whose daughter went missing in 2011, said her child might still be by her side today had police started efforts to find the girl immediately."As soon as I found out that my daughter was missing, I alerted police. But police told me they could not do anything because any investigation would start only after the girl had been missing for at least 24 hours," the distraught mother said.Ekaluck also attacked the widespread police practice of not acting on missing-persons reports until the subject of the report had been missing for 24 hours."Please don't wait. Please adjust your attitudes," he said.He also encouraged police to provide guidelines about how parents could minimise the risk of losing their children to kidnappers.Pol General Jarumporn Suramanee, an adviser (Level 10) at the National Police Office, met with Ekaluck yesterday."There's no regulation that bars police from accepting reports of missing persons even though said persons may have been missing for less than 24 hours," he said, "We have already notified all police stations about this."Jarumporn assured Ekaluck that the National Police Office worked diligently when handling reports of missing persons."We have summoned investigators to follow up on pending cases every now and then," he said.Jarumporn added that the National Police Office also had a centre for handling reports on missing persons and discoveries of unidentified dead people."Now, we are in the process of seeking additional funds for the centre so that it can function more efficiently. For example, we plan to develop a [software] application featuring photos and information on the missing persons," he said.He was confident that the app would allow police and members of the public to locate missing persons quickly.-- The Nation 2013-12-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noitom Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 These numbers are the tip of the iceberg with missing children and woman in Thailand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurboy Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 ...seeking additional funds... Yep, that about sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taony Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Yeah, let's "urge" them to do the things they are supposed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaltsc Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 "Serious efforts must be made to provide tangible solutions. The National Police Office can start by setting up a task force to handle reports directly on missing children and to conduct efficient and thorough investigations based on such reports," Now, all that needs to be done is to find the missing policemen who are supposed to be doing their jobs . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBerg Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Especially the first 24 hours after a person goes missing are the most important of finding that person. Apparently Thai policemen often prefer to wait 24 hours first. Where on earth does that come from? Give the possible kidnapper a headstart? How ignorant people can be. At the expense and suffering of others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Would any of these missing persons be PM and cabinet ????? I wonder how many notables are out of the country already ???? IN CASE OF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaltsc Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Especially the first 24 hours after a person goes missing are the most important of finding that person. Apparently Thai policemen often prefer to wait 24 hours first. Where on earth does that come from? Give the possible kidnapper a headstart? How ignorant people can be. At the expense and suffering of others. And....that's just the average policeman. Just remember, half of the police are more ignorant than that . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetrout Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 l cannot believe two children a day go missing. thats ove 700 a year how can this not be noticed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loles Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I wish you dear police a very nice and wonderful GOOD MORNING aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Police urged to tackle issue of missing persons "Please don't wait. Please adjust your attitudes," he said. Pol General Jarumporn Suramanee, an adviser (Level 10) at the National Police Office, met with Ekaluck yesterday. ...after the Pol General pulled his finger out of his nasal cavity and had thoroughly inspected his lucky find, he then proceeded to yawn heavily and scratched his behind. Having concluded all these strenuous activities to his satisfaction, he then advised his visitor to adjust his own attitude with the appropriate, traditional and culturally approved brown envelope. Then he counseled Mr. Ekaluck on the importance of not stressing out the police officers who worked so hard and diligently on a daily basis with no time off, or any rest at all until their cases came to a natural conclusion...After that: Jarumporn assured Ekaluck that the National Police Office worked diligently when handling reports of missing persons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 http://www.ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2012/A-child-goes-missing-in-the-UK-every-3-minutes/ which means that most get found again I guess. Setting up a website (I thought there already was one) in Thailand as well as an SMS service and facebook page might be one way of getting around police apathy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlandy Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 "Serious efforts must be made to provide tangible solutions. The National Police Office can start by setting up a task force to handle reports directly on missing children and to conduct efficient and thorough investigations based on such reports," Now, all that needs to be done is to find the missing policemen who are supposed to be doing their jobs . Now, all that needs to be done is to find the missing policemen who are supposed to be doing their jobs Easy just look for where all the television sets. The most lazy, useless, stupid, ineffective, dishonest, corrupt bunch of a'holes on the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMarlow Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 These numbers are the tip of the iceberg with missing children and woman in Thailand. How do you know that? And what "figures", there was only one figure mentioned in the report, on average 3 missing persons reports per day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMarlow Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 l cannot believe two children a day go missing. thats ove 700 a year how can this not be noticed It is noticed, that's what the report is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 l cannot believe two children a day go missing. thats ove 700 a year how can this not be noticed At the risk of being pedantic; the op says reported missing. How many of those actually are missing would be a good number to know. As a comparison in 1999 800,000 children were reported missing in America Source: http://www.missingkids.com/KeyFacts I am sure further google searches could find more up to date figures and the results of the reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickymaster Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 If only the Thai police would be a little less corrupt Thailand could be so much better. Really sad to see how this department is detroying Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halion Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 In my several years in this country diligence is not a word I would use with regard to any and all aspects of the RTP, with the exception of protecting their own rice bowl. From top to bottom it is a laconic, dislocated and pathetic excuse for a constabulary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 ...and Yingluck wants Thailand taken off the watchlist for human trafficking.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 The whole thing is ridiculous. In the US the police say the first 24 hours are the most important while in Thailand they don't start looking for 24 hours. Now I understand in most cases the child turns up in under 24 hours but in the cases were they do not you have a much lower success rate in finding them. So Po Po get of your asses and start looking at the first notice when someone calls in distress about a missing child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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