Thailand’s Tourist Police is set to launch its own LINE account

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thailand’s Tourist Police is set to launch its own LINE account

• From Tuesday 9th September you'll be able to follow and interact with the Thailand Tourist Police on LINE
  

BANGKOK:-- Thailand’s Tourist Police Division is set to launch its own LINE Official Account complete with messages for tourists in English & Thai and its own unique LINE sticker character.

The popular LINE messaging Application has around 480 million users world-wide and 29 million of those are in Thailand (as of statistic in July 2014). The Application is one of the most popular ways for people to communicate in Thailand.

The Central Investigation Bureau by Tourist Police Division recognise the importance of this application and has created the Thailand Tourist Police Official LINE Account to assist with better communication between tourist police and tourists to the Kingdom.

It is targeted at both Thais and foreigners and will help provide travel news information and other related useful news information through LINE messages and stickers.

This is an important step in the efforts to promote tourism in the country and support the government’s policy to build tourism confidence.

Thailand’s Tourist Police has already set up Call Centre 1155 as well as a website and Application for the Tourist Police Division to provide news information, assist tourists, receive complaints and exchange news information between the organisation and both Thai and international tourists. The Application will further support these endeavors.

Source: Thailand Tourist Police

-- 2014-09-02

[canopus1969]

Just about sums up the Tourist Police

[WhizBang]

Oh Please. Line? Really? TiT

[bkkgooner]

Here's an idea instead of creating new gimmicks just do your jobs and enforce the laws of the country, no more no less just do your bloody jobs.

[Mango Bob]

Line is pretty good, I can call and talk to my son and daughter in the USA and also do video chat with them all for free. Can't beat that.

[wxpwzrd]

You can just imagine the sticker set that could come with this one...

[WhamBam]

Will it work as well as the 1155 number does?

On the occasions I ever tried to phone that number it was never answered.

[outsider]

Oh come on. You people worry about the most inconsequential of things. Fining jaywalkers and now starting a Line account. Sheesh!!!

[mike80122]

I am coming to Thailand and several people I have contacted have referenced their line number but I do not know how to sign up for that service. I use Skype but LINE looks like a good alternative to have during an extended stay in Thailand. Any help would be appreciated.

[outsider]

I am coming to Thailand and several people I have contacted have referenced their line number but I do not know how to sign up for that service. I use Skype but LINE looks like a good alternative to have during an extended stay in Thailand. Any help would be appreciated.

Go to Google Apps Store (if you're using an Android smartphone) and download the app. It's free. Once it's installed, just go through the registration process and that's it. You will become part of the statistics... LOL!!! Anyway, enjoy your trip. Have a nice one. Cheers.

[csabo]

I am coming to Thailand and several people I have contacted have referenced their line number but I do not know how to sign up for that service. I use Skype but LINE looks like a good alternative to have during an extended stay in Thailand. Any help would be appreciated.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/line/id443904275?mt=8

[katana]

Haven't used it before, but here's the website: http://line.me/en/

Seems it's multiplatform, available for Windows too.

[csabo]

I am coming to Thailand and several people I have contacted have referenced their line number but I do not know how to sign up for that service. I use Skype but LINE looks like a good alternative to have during an extended stay in Thailand. Any help would be appreciated.

If you do plan to use LINE and you will have a Thai phone number while you are here, wait to register your account until you have a Thai phone number. It's easier when Line needs to send you verification messages as I do not think you can have two phone numbers registered to Line and you will have limited access to your home country messaging services. I still fallback on skype occasionally or voxer or facetime or tango......

[NongKhaiKid]

Another piece of advice, you can use your account on phone, laptop, tablet etc but i found out to my cost if you open in a device other than the last one you used all your chat history is wiped. i was warned but tried it out and .. !

You don't lose saved friends though.

[Regyai]

Will there be a Line Game where you gain coins helping the friendly jetski operators, and more rousting foreigners on motocycles, but lose points if your character does anything constructive

[BigBadGeordie]

Aha they can share their Cookie Run scores.

[SMSinBangkok]

I am a foreign journalist working in Thailand. During the six years I have lived here, I have at uneven intervals tested the police, both Thai and Tourist Police´s emergency phone numbers. What a scam. Ridiculous. And dangerous. Nobody answers. Ridiculous. If you do not believe me, call this number now and see what happens: 1155

Thailand = Disgrace

Edited September 2, 2014 by SMSinBangkok

[SMSinBangkok]

I just took my own medicine, and phoned 1155 just now. The first call was dropped, thanks to the eminent quality of Thai mobile networks (not) I presume. The second call put me trough to an automatic answering machine, and to my pleasant surprise ended up in me actually talking to someone (if he was Police or not I do not know). I told him (I was kidding) that I had just payed 10.000 Baht to a lady who said she would boom boom me, but she left without fulfilling the agreement. He listened to me, and without any sign of laughter, he told me to contact my nearest police station, which in my case is Bangna. ;-)

[NCFC]

I just took my own medicine, and phoned 1155 just now. The first call was dropped, thanks to the eminent quality of Thai mobile networks (not) I presume. The second call put me trough to an automatic answering machine, and to my pleasant surprise ended up in me actually talking to someone (if he was Police or not I do not know). I told him (I was kidding) that I had just payed 10.000 Baht to a lady who said she would boom boom me, but she left without fulfilling the agreement. He listened to me, and without any sign of laughter, he told me to contact my nearest police station, which in my case is Bangna. ;-)

Why make up a story?

Why not tell the truth and say you're testing the system and congratulate him for answering the phone and spending time listening to you?

Do journalists inherently feel the need to lie?

Anyway I'm looking forward to getting those stickers to trump my gf's collection.

Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand

[NomadJoe]

I just took my own medicine, and phoned 1155 just now. The first call was dropped, thanks to the eminent quality of Thai mobile networks (not) I presume. The second call put me trough to an automatic answering machine, and to my pleasant surprise ended up in me actually talking to someone (if he was Police or not I do not know). I told him (I was kidding) that I had just payed 10.000 Baht to a lady who said she would boom boom me, but she left without fulfilling the agreement. He listened to me, and without any sign of laughter, he told me to contact my nearest police station, which in my case is Bangna. ;-)

And while you are playing your games, real emergencies are going unanswered. That would get you jail time back home.

[Tokay]

Cool. I'll send them penis photos.

[chooka]

Are travel agents around the world passing this info onto tourists? This idea sounds about as clever as the idea they came up with where tourists can now make crime reports at 7/11 instead of going to police stations.

Edited September 2, 2014 by chooka

[Regyai]

Cool. I'll send them penis photos.

They'll probably send it a uniform