So according to an article today, the new idea from the Royal Thai Police is to draft young men to serve as police officers. Hard to imagine a worse idea. Brings back the days of corvee labor when the phrai were forced to work for free for the aristos. Thailand has full employment currently so the police department must compete in the jobs market for workers, which is a problem. Accoridng to the capitalist theory of a free labor market, under such competitive conditions, the police dept as employer would have to raise the wage and benefits until a cop job becomes attractive to a young man who can get another job easily. On the other hand, I guess you can just command young men to work for the state at whatever you want to pay them. So much for their rights as workers to set a price on their labor.

Link to the Article so that we can read it please?

Rather then to rely on your interpretation of it.

Thanks ...

The top must be running a bit dry.....they will have to draft new earners to keep the upper mia nois happy.

Nothing would be a surprise. They should change the name to Police Farce

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The article is in the paper that doesn't allow links.

The BIB say they are all tied up with office work and need some conscripts to free up officers for other duties.

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I recently spoke to a young officer who told me his salary is 6,500/mo. No wonder they're all on the take.

6500 is probably true but who and what can you believe, multiple sources?

6500 is probably true but who and what can you believe, multiple sources?

First year teachers are pretty low too. Probably all entry-level public servants.

Thailand doesn't have full employment at the moment.

Thailand doesn't have full employment at the moment.

Of the 202 countries reporting unemployment statistics for 2014 only 3 had lower rates than Thailand's, which is 0.70%. Thailand's number dates from 2012 and it might be slightly higher now, but not much.

Sounds like full employment to me.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/economy/unemployment_rate_2014_0.html

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The article is in the paper that doesn't allow links.

The BIB say they are all tied up with office work and need some conscripts to free up officers for other duties.

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Their offices are at street corners , toll booths and traffic lights ?

Thailand may have had full employment if you don't count several million drunks doing nothing all day (another made up Thai statistic) , you couldn't get staff before but now those that want to work are queuing up for jobs. The economy is destroyed.

There is meant to be many , many more applications for police jobs than jobs available.

"Accoridng to the capitalist theory of a free labor market"...

Thailand doesn't work to the 'capitalist theory of a free labour market'. It works with patronage and sakdina.

When you leave your home country you must also leave behind the assumptions about law and society that operate in your home country.

"Accoridng to the capitalist theory of a free labor market"...

Thailand doesn't work to the 'capitalist theory of a free labour market'. It works with patronage and sakdina.

When you leave your home country you must also leave behind the assumptions about law and society that operate in your home country.

I can only bow to a cultural adaptation that is so superior as not even to raise an eyebrow at the news that Thailand is planning to become the only country in the world to field a conscripted police force. My own, hopelessly parochial, mind boggles.

Haddock, I think you're expecting a bit much here. How many people here do you think know what "phrai" means?

Did you want our opinion on it BTW?

Haddock, I think you're expecting a bit much here. How many people here do you think know what "phrai" means?

Did you want our opinion on it BTW?

If you are one of the ones who knows what "phrai" means, then sure, please give your opinion.

I think the point to govt jobs like teaching and maybe police are the benefits, or so i have heard, you dont get in other positions.

I'm still pondering what's worse:

officers who really didn't want to join the police but were forced to

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officers who joined the police on purpose